英语高二下外研版选修8 Module 2教案01（Reading）
英语：Module 2《The Renaissance》英文教案（1）（外研版选修8）
Part One Teaching Design
Period 1 Reading -- The Renaissance
▇ Goals
Get the students to know the background of the Renaissance and the achievements during this time and the representatives in many fields.
To learn to read with strategies
▇ Procedures
Step 1: Warming up by learning about “the Renaissance” and learn about the background knowledge.
Before we begin the reading of Module 2, let’s try to understand the background of that time. Please answer some questions.
1. Do you know something about the Renaissance?
2. Who painted the Mona Lisa? How do you like it?
3. Are there any other great painters at that time?
4. Who you think are the representatives of the Renaissance?
5. In which fields did the Renaissance take place?
6. What do you think are the influences of the Renaissance?
Warming up by saying something about Leonardo da Vinci.
“Leonardo da Vinci was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep” ----Sigmund Freud?
Leonardo da Vinci is a man well beyond his time. Leonardo da Vinci was a renaissance painter, architect, engineer, mathematician and philosopher, a genius the world has never seen again so far. Step 2: Before you read
Please introduce the words for this module, paying attention to the pronunciation of the words, the relationship between their pronunciation and spelling.
Practice for words study:
Have a spelling quiz. Read every sentence and fill the blanks with proper forms of the words in this module.
The ____ is the study and design of buildings.
The ____ is the study of the meaning of life.
If you give somebody a job, it means you ______ him or her.
Madam Curie did a great _____ to the mankind.
_____ means something difficult to understand or explain.
A large church is called a ______.
What’s your ______ of the painting.?
What the teachers did was to _____ the students to study even harder.
He is really a genius. His painting shows ______ talent.
Her red coat ______ sharply with the white snow.
Keys: architecture, philosophy, employ, contribution, mysterious,
cathedral, perspective, motivate, extraordinary, contrasted
Step 3: While you read
1. Type of writing and summary of The Renaissance
The Renaissance
Part 1
The most important representative of the Renaissance and what made it possible to take place
Part 2
Great achievements in arts, philosophy and science
Part 3
Leonardo’s contribution to to history
2. A diagram of The Renaissance
3. Complete the article with one word in each blank
The Renaissance is French word meaning _1_. This word was used to describe a period in European history which began with the _2__ of the first Europeans in America. It was as if Europe was __3__ up after the long sleep of the Middle Ages. From Italy, the idea of the Renaissance rapidly __4__ to France, Germany, England and the rest of Europe. _5_ made people get richer. It became easier for artists to find people who could _6_ to buy their works or employ them.
During that time, people developed a type of philosophy. For the first time, humans _7__ of God was put in the center of the Universe. The renaissance was also a time of _____ invention. Leonardo was also a skilled inventor. He had many detailed drawings of machines, such as airplanes, parachutes, submarines and tanks. He was really an extraordinary genius with so many different ______.
Keys: 1. rebirth 2.arrival 3.waking 4.spread 5. Trade 6.afford 7.instead 8.scientific 9. talents
4. Answer the reading comprehension questions according to the text
1. Which of the following groups about the description of the Renaissance is TRUE?
a. The Renaissance means 14th to 16th century Italy, and the development in art and architecture, music and literature.
b. The Renaissance is no more than the Mona Lisa
c. From France, the idea of the Renaissance rapidly spread northwards to Italy, Germany, England, and the rest of Europe.
d. The Renaissance was a time of scientific invention.
e. The Mona Lisa expresses the spirit of the renaissance.
A. a b c B. a d e C. b c e D. a c d
2. Why do we say the Mona Lisa is a mysterious masterpiece?
A. Because people want to know who Mona Lisa was and what she was doing.
B. Because people want to know where Mona Lisa was from and why she was smiling.
C. Because people want to know how old Mona Lisa was and who she was .
D. Because people want to know who Mona Lisa was and why she was smiling.
3. Trade with other parts of the world did NOT mean that ______.
A. it was difficult for Leonardo to be employed by the rich.
B. Europe was getting richer.
C. people had money to spend on the arts.
D. it because easier for artists to find people who could afford to buy their works or employ them.
4. The new frontiers in the arts opened by the Renaissance artists include the following EXCEPT _______.
A. painters discovered how to use perspective and the effects of light
B. composers put different voices together and created polyphony
C. the artists first put people rather than religion at the center of the universe.
D. architects preferred designing buildings with more light which contrasted with the heaviness of the Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages.
5. Which of the following sentences is WRONG about Leonardo?
A. Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa in the year 1503-1506
B. Leonardo was only a famous painter in the world.
C. In short, Leonardo was an extraordinary genius.
D. Leonardo was a painter and an inventor as well.
Keys: 1-5 BDACB
Step 4: After you read
1. Copy all the useful expressions into your Expression Book and make your own sentences with them.
Useful Expressions of The Renaissance
… is believed to be, more than, a new life-like style, a mysterious masterpiece, hear of, more than, begin with, wake up, the rest of Europe, get rich, spend money on, can’t afford to buy…, look forward, contrast with, go hand in hand, of little/no/much value, compare with, for the first time, at the center of the universe, a skilled inventor, carry sth. with sb., detailed drawings, do scientific research, in short, an extraordinary genius, a person with many talents, even if/though, make contributions to, for all time
2. Read to transfer information
You are to read the text once again to complete the table with necessary information from it.
The summary of The Renaissance
Para.1
What the Renaissance mean to many people and the spirit of the Renaissance
Para.2
The Renaissance is more than just the Mona Lisa
Para.3
That the Europe is getting richer made it possible for the Renaissance to happen.
Renaissance artists looked forward by opening new frontiers in the art.
Para.5
The sense of exploration motivated the philosophers to put people instead of religion at the center of the Universe.
Para.6
Para.6. The Renaissance was a time of scientific invention, too.
Para.7
Leonardo was considered an extraordinary genius for his contributions to history.
Step 5: Closing down by learning about the Renaissance
Renaissance is a French word that means “Rebirth.” After around a millenium of?Dark Midieval Age?at about 1450, European scholars became more interested in studying the world around them.?They?nurtured?the aesthetics?of men as shown in their arts which?became more true to life. They began to explore new lands and new territories to crossbreed cultures and economies. They started to rely on senses and reasons to study how the world operates. They speculated their meaning of existence in view of not only?God but also of themselves.?They posed more emphasis on the well-being on earthly lives and developed such a belief as Humanism. The brand-new?era was eventually called “the Renaissance.”
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