【公开课教案】高中英语选修六unit1-art Reading教学设计

A Teaching Plan

Teacher: Xiao Ziquan

Class:Class1, Senior 2

Teaching time：Nov.14, 2018

Teaching content: Reading

Teacher: Module 6 Unit 1 Art Reading

Teaching goals：

1.To enable the students to have a knowledge of the short history of Western

painting.

2.To improve the students’ reading ability.

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

Show some famous paintings and ask : Do you know the following famous paintings and painters?

Mona Lisa Smile → Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519)

Sunflowers & starry night → Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)

Water Lilies → Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)

Dream & Seated woman → Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)

Ask: Can you tell the ages of the paintings?

Say : Today we’ll learn about the short history of western painting.

Step III Reading

1. Comparison: Make a comparison of Western and Chinese painting and ask: Which do you think has a greater change? Why?

2. Scanning

Read Para. 1, and answer the question.

Scan Para2-5, and find the representative artists and the features of their paintings. 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 ／Controversial,

today abstract, realistic

3. Careful reading

Read the text carefully and find some detailed information.

The Middle Ages Features:

1.theme: religion

2.Artists were not interested in showing nature and people as…but interested in creating respect and love for God.

The Renaissance

Masaccio：the first person to use perspective in painting

1.Focused more on humans and less on religion.

2.Two developments: a. Drawing things in perspectives

b. Oil painting.

Impressionism

1.What changes led to the change in painting styles?

2.Look at these paintings, what did they paint?

3.Why did the impressionist have to paint quickly?

Modern art

Two extremes