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　　Unit 1 Art
　　教学设计
　　I. 单元教学目标：
　　1． Talt art and galleries
　　2． Talt likes and preferences
　　3． Learn words in families
　　4． Use the subjunctive mood
　　5． Write a letter to give suggestions
　　II. 目标语言
　　1． 功能句式。
　　Talt likes and preference:
　　I’d prefer…/ I’d rather…/ I’d like…/ which would you prefer…./ I really prefer…/ would you rather…/ would you like…or…
　　2. 词汇 
　　abstract, sculpture, gallery, consequently, belief, consequent, convince, shadow, ridiculous, controversial, nowadays, attempt, predict, aggressive , scholar…
　　3. 语法: the subjunctive mood
　　if I were you…./ I wish I could…
　　4. 重点句子
　　1. there are so many different styles of western art it would be impossible to describe all of them in a short text.
　　2. people became focused more on human and less on religion.
　　3. if the rules of perspective had not been discovered, people would not have been able to paint such realistic pictures.
　　4. at the time they were created, the impressionists’ painting were controversial but today they are accepted as the beginning of what we now call “modern art”.
　　5. it is amazing that so many great works of art from late-19th century to 21st century could be contained in the same museum.
　　III. 教材分析
　　本单元以ART 为主题，主要介绍了西方绘画简史，描写了曼哈顿最好的艺术长廊。帮助学生了解更多的有关美术的背景知识，分析中西艺术史上各大流派的特点，指出其代表性的画家和作品，并对中西方的绘画艺术进行比较。
　　1. Warming up 部分要求学生运用相关目标语言对自己喜欢的艺术形式和流派展开讨论，并说明喜欢的原因。
　　2． Pre-reading 让学生讨论有关画展或书中的艺术作品以及西方不同时期的著名画家。
　　3． Reading 介绍了西方绘画监视，不同的艺术流派，艺术特点及其代表性的画家和作品。
　　4． Comprehending要求学生在理解课文的基础上，写出三件有关西方艺术史的事并西方艺术分割变化大的原因。
　　5． Using language 是由reading, listening, discussing and writing 四部分组成，要求学生在了解艺术长廊相关知识的基础上，为当地举办的一场画展提出合理化的建议。
　　IV．课型设计与课时安排
　　1st period  Warming up and reading
　　2nd period  Language study
　　3rd period  Grammar
　　4th period  Listening and talking
　　5th period  Using language
　　6th period  Reading, speaking and writing
　　分课时教案
　　The First Period Warming up 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 talt the short history of Western painting
　　Teaching methods
　　Skimming and scanning; individual, pair or group worssion
　　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 today       ／ Controversial, 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.