Teaching goals 教学目标
1. Target language 目标语言
重点词汇和短语
exhibition, express, landscape, portrait, realize, realistic, watercolor
2. Ability goals能力目标
Enable the students to express their likes and dislikes freely.
3. Learning ability goals学能目标
Help the students learn how to express their likes and dislikes freely.
Teaching important points 教学重点
Get the students to talk about their likes and dislikes.
Teaching difficult points 教学难点
How to encourage the students to express their likes and dislikes.
Teaching methods教学方法
Cooperative learning and task-based activity.
Teaching aids 教具准备
A tape recorder, a projector and some slides.
Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式
Step I Revision
T: At the beginning, let’s check the answers to the exercises of Vocabulary.
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Step II Listening and Vocabulary
Task 1 Complete the sentences with these words
This activity is meant to smooth away the difficulties in the listening that follows.
T: Now let’s review some words. I’ll say some words in Chinese. I’d like you to tell me their meanings in English. Ready? Let’s go. “展览”, “表情，表达”, “风景画”, “油画”, “肖像, 画像”， “领悟，意识到”, “现实主义的”, “水彩画”
Ss: Exhibition, expression, landscape, oil painting, portrait, realise, realistic, watercolor.
T: Good! Now please turn to page 36 and let’s do Activity 1. I’d like you to do it by yourselves first and then let’s check the answers together.
After several minutes.
T: Ready? I’d like one of you to read out the sentences and fill in the blanks at the same time.
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Task 2 Listening
Ask the students to read the questions first. Play the tape, and then ask them to do Activity 2. After that, let them work in pairs to check the answers. At last, play the tape again and finish Activity 3.
T: Now let’s come to the listening. First read the questions of Activity 2, then listen to the conversation and answer the questions.
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T: Now listen to the tape again and do Activity 3.
A few minutes later, check the answers.
Step III Speaking
Task 1 Function
This step is intended to help the students summarize the ways of expressing likes and dislikes.
T: Good! You’ve done a good job. Now I’d like you to read some sentences on the screen. Please point out the phrases for giving opinions.
1. I think some western art is beautiful and interesting.
2. I like pictures that show reality.
3. I really like paintings of animals.
4. I can’t stand modern art. I think it’s awful.
5. I’m interested in pictures that are different in some way.
6. I want something beautiful to put on my wall.
7. I can get tired of looking at pictures all the time.
8. I’m fond of going to art galleries.
T: Could you tell me the phrases for giving opinions?
Ss: Yes. I think ...; I like ...; I really like ...; I can’t stand ...; I’m interested in ...; I want ...; I get tired of ...; I’m fond of ...
T: Good! Now you have known the ways to give opinions. I’d like you to turn to page 32. Work in pairs. Choose the painting you like best. Describe the painting and say what you know about it and why you like it. At last I’d like you to act out your dialogues.
Sample dialogue 1:
A: Which picture do you prefer?
B: I like the picture with some shrimps.
A: Who painted it? What does it tell us?
B: Qi Baishi painted it. In the picture there are some shrimps that are lively and interesting.
A: Why do you like it?
B: The great painter painted them vividly. It shows the spirit of them and also gives you a comfortable feeling. The beautiful picture also reminds you of the beautiful nature.
Sample dialogue 2:
A: Which picture do you like?
B: I like the one with a girl sitting there.
A: Who painted it? And what does it tell us?
B: Picsso painted it. It tells us a lot. It makes us think of many images.
A: Why do you like it?
B: Because Picasso painted objects and people, with different aspects of the object or person shown at the same time.
Sample dialogue 3:
A: Which picture do you think is your favorite?
B: I think it is the one with a girl wearing the beautiful golden hair.
A: Whom was it painted by?
B: It was painted by the contemporary American artist Roy Lichtenstein.
A: Why do you like it?
B: Because it is abstract, and it shows the ordinary twentieth-century city life. It makes you think a lot about life.
T: Well done!
Task 2 Speaking
This step is to help the students review the ways they have learned to express their likes and dislikes.
T: Let’s come to Speaking. Please work in pairs. Prepare a questionnaire about people’s likes and dislikes in art. Write 6 questions. At last, I’ll ask some students to show me your questionnaires.
After several minutes, check the answers.
Sample answers:
Questionnaire 1
1. Do you enjoy painting?
2. Which do you prefer, oil paintings or watercolors?
3. Do you like landscapes?
4. Which artist do you like best?
5. What do you know about the great artist Qi Baishi?
6. Do you like drawing?
Questionnaire 2
1. What do you know about the humorist Hua Junwu?
2. Who do you know started Cubism?
3. Have you ever been to any art gallery?
4. How do you like the works by Xu Beihhong?
5. Have you ever seen the works by famous artist Wu Daozi who lived in the Tang Dynasty?
6. Do you know any famous artist living in the Ming Dynasty?
Questionnaire 3
1. Do you know any works of the Impressionist school in France?
2. Have you visited any art show?
3. Do you like China’s landscapes?
4. What do you think of the works of American artist Roy Lichtenstein?
5. Do you like to be a painter in the future?
6. Who do you know is the most famous painter in China today?
T: Please work in groups of four, take turns to ask and answer your questions. Then I’ll ask some groups to act out your dialogues.
After 3 minutes.
T: Have you finished? Now I’d like you to act out your dialogues.
Sample version 1:
A: Which works by Xu Beihong do you like best?
B: I like the picture with 6 horses running towards you.
A: Do you know any works of the Impressionist school?
B: Yes! One of the works named the Dancing Lesson by Edgar Decar.
Sample version 2:
A: Who do you think started Cubism?
B: It was Picasso.
A: Do you know any famous artist living in the Tang Dynasty?
B: Yes. Wu Daozi was a famous painter living at that time.
Sample version 3:
A: Which do you like better, the landscapes or the oil paintings?
B:I like the landscapes better, for it is more traditional.
A: Do you like the works by Qi Baishi?
B: Yes. I even attended one of his art shows.
T: Good. Please make some notes for a short talk on a painter or a painting you really like. Bring a copy of the painting here and show it to your classmates.
Step IV Everyday English
This part is designed to help the students improve their pronunciation and get them to realize the function words are weak sound when they are read in sentences.
T: Turn to page 38. Look at the sentences. I’d like you to work in pair, and choose the correct answers.
Allow them enough time and then check the answers.
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T: Now listen and repeat phrases in Activity 1. Notice the weak sound.
Step V Speaking and Listening (WORKBOOK）
In this part, get the students to know about some famous artists in the world, and ask them to listen to the tape carefully and choose the correct answers.
Task 1 Speaking
T: Now turn to page 89. Let’s learn about some famous painters in the world. Work in pairs and talk about the painters below. Think about: 1. when they lived; 2. which art movement they started; 3. what their nationalities were; 4. what their well-known paintings are; 5. which type of paintings they belong to.
Sample dialogue 1:
A: Do you know anything about Salvator Dali?
B: I think all his paintings are very strange.
A: Which art movement did he belong to?
B: He belonged to the Surrealist art movement.
A: Where did he come from?
B: He came from Spain.
A: Do you know any of his famous paintings?
B: Le Sommeil is one of his paintings.
Sample dialogue 2:
A: Do you know anything about Leonardo da Vinci?
B: Do you mean the famous painter who lived in Italy between the fifteenth century and the sixteenth century?
A: Yes. What art movement did he belong to?
B: As we all know, he belonged to the Renaissance Movement.
Sample dialogue 3:
A: Do you know where Vincent van Gogh came from?
B: You mean the famous Dutch painter?
A: Yes. But he lived and painted in France.
B: Oh. What about his paintings?
A: All his paintings are colorful and alive.
Sample dialogue 4:
A: Have you seen any of the paintings by Picasso?
B: Yes. I often see his works published in the Reader.
A: What was his nationality?
B: He was Spanish.
A: Which art movement did he start?
B: He started Cubism.
T: OK. You are excellent. Now let’s look at the two pictures on the right. Do you know who painted them?
S: The first picture — Le Sommeil was painted by Salator Dali. And the second picture — Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vinci.
T: Good! Now that you have discussed about the four famous painters, you must have known something about them. Let’s come to Exercise 14. Work in groups of four. Look at the statements and try to match them with the painters in Exercise 13.
After several minutes.
T: Have you finished? We’ll check the answers after finishing listening to the tape.
Task 2 Listening
This step helps the students learn more about some famous artists. Before listening, ask them to have a quick look at the questions so that they can develop a good habit of listening. Play the tape and then ask them to check the answers to Exercise 15 in pairs, and at last play the tape again and check the answers to Exx. 14 ＆15 together.
Step VI Homework
T: That’s all for today. After class, read more about the four famous artists and describe one of your favorite artists.
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