Lead-in and warming-up

1. lead-in

Lead in the new lesson by pictures of famous paintings, and then ask students to list other styles of paintings.

2. Warming-up

Show students some world famous artists and their works. Ask them to conclude the characters of Chinese and western paintings.

Pre-reading

Which do you think has a greater change in Chinese and Western countries? why?

And then introduce the new lesson--"a short history of western painting"

Reading

1.Skimming

a. What's the main idea of this passage?

b. How many periods of the paintings are mentioned in this text? what are they?

IV. Cooperative learning

Task. Group work.

Careful reading

a. Read para1 as quickly as you can.

Art is influenced by the _______and _______of a people.