Using LanguageⅠ优秀说课稿

BOOK 6 UNIT 1 ART READING 教学设计

余姚七中

叶栽红

Teaching goals: Target language: realistic, abstract, religion, religious, sculpture, gallery, belief, consequent, consequently, aim, symbol, value, focus, possession, convince, impressionism, impressionist, shadow, ridiculous, nowadays, attempt, predict, the Renaissance, focus on, a great deal , scores of

There are so many…

that it would be impossible to

2. Ability goals:

Enable the students to talk about the short history of Western painting

Learning ability goals

Help the students learn how to talk about the short history of Western painting Teaching important & difficult points:

Enable the Ss to talk about the short history of Western painting

Teaching methods:

Skimming and scanning; individual, pair or group work; discussion

Teaching aids:

A computer, a tape recorder and a projector.

Teaching procedures & ways Step I Lead-in

To lead in such a topic by mentioning the sculptures or paintings around the students, for example, sculptures on the campus, famous paintings hanging on the walls of the corridor of the school building, etc. Ask Ss to figure out their functions and the general term to call them---the works of art .

Step II Warming-up

Ask the Ss to match some new words with the correct English meanings. Then ask them to look at the paintings in this unit and discuss the questions in Warming Up in groups of 4. Next, get them to answer the other questions in pairs. At last , check the answers with the whole class.

step III Pre-reading

Get the Ss to discuss the questions in pre-reading in pairs. Then check the answer with the whole class, if they have no idea, use the materials previously prepared to let the Ss have some acquaintance with the knowledge of art and artists. StepⅣ

Reading

Task 1 Scanning

Show some questions on the screen.

What were the artists interested in from 5th to 15the century AD?

How did Masaccio

paint his paintings?

Why did the impressionists have to paint quickly.

Task 2 Scanning

Let the Ss red the passage again and get the main idea of it. Then complete the

following chart of their own.

Names of Ages

Time

Artist

Feature

The Middle Ages

5th to 15th century

Giotto Di Bondone

religious, realistic

The Renaissance

15th to 16th century

Massaccio

perspective, realistic

Impressionism

Late 19th to early 20th century

detailed, ridiculous Modern art

20th century to today

controversial, abstract, realistic Task 3 Explanation

There are so many…

that it would be impossible to …

The sentence means that there are too many different styles of /western art to introduce in a short passage.

People became more focused on…

and less on…

It tell us that people pay more attention to humans than religion If the rules of perspective had not been discovered, people would not have been able to paint …

The sentence means that people discovered the rules of perspective, so that they painted such realistic pictures. Step V Comprehending

Ask the students to read the passage again and deal with Exercises. Step V Homework

1. Underline the time expression in the reading passage.

2. Retell the passage with the help of the chart about the text. 3. Discuss the question in Exercise 3 on page 3.