英语写作课程设计

Module 4 Fine Arts- Western, Chinese and Pop Arts

Listening and writing

Dalian No. 48 Middle School

By Wang Hui

Teaching goals 教学目标

1.Help students learn how to gain specific information in listening

2.Enable students to talk about their likes and dislikes in arts

3.Help students learn how to write comments on arts

4.Enable students to evaluate compositions of their own and of others.

5.Inspire students to show respect to the splendid civilization of human beings. Teaching important points 教学重点

Write a comment on a painting

Teaching difficult points 教学难点

1.Listening for specific information

2.Writing: write a comment on a painting

Teaching & Learning methods 教学方法

1. Task-based teaching method

2. Cooperative learning

Teaching aids教具准备

puter

2. projector

3. blackboard

Teaching procedures教学过程

Ⅰ. Leading in (group work)

Discussion:

A quote of Picasso “Art is a lie that tells the truth.”

How do you understand the sentence?

Ⅱ. Listening (class work)

Workbook page 90 activity 15

1.listen to a conversation and choose the correct answers

1)The girl isn’t very interested in ____. A. Leonardo da Vinci B. Picasso

2)The boy quite likes _____. A. Vincent van Gogh B. Dali

3)The boy’s favorite painter is ____. A. Picasso B. Dali

4)The girl likes the painting by__best. A. Vincent van Gogh B. Leonardo da Vinci

5)The speakers are ___. A. visiting an art exhibition B. looking at an art book 2. Listen to the tape again and find out the words and phrases which they use to express their likes and dislikes. Find out the reasons.

Ⅲ. Speaking (pair work)

Situation:

Imagine we are visiting an art gallery and we are appreciating some paintings.

Please work in pairs and make a short dialogue to show your likes and dislikes to the paintings and try to use the expressions which we get from the listening material. Ⅳ. Writing

writing task：(individual work)

Situation: Let’s suppose that you are going to choose a painting to put up on your bedroom wall. Please write down your comments on one of them in a paragraph to

show your likes.

1) Proof reading: (class work)

Choose one of the students to write his/ her passage on the blackboard and let the other students correct it together.

2) Draw a conclusion (class work)

Structure of a comment

①Topic sentence(opinion)

②Supporting sentences(reasons)

③Conclusion(ending)

3) standards of a good passage

make a self-evaluation: (individual work)

①Do you express your opinion clearly?

②Do you give enough supporting details?

③Do you use any connecting words or phrases?

④Are there any other mistakes in spelling or grammar?

Ⅴ. Homework

After class, please write another passage to show your dislikes on one of the 3 paintings.