Lesson 26 The best art critics （课件）新概念英语第二册

Lesson 26 The best art critics Daily English Do you like painting? How many painters do you know? Is it easy to understand the paintings? Who is the best art critics? 齐白石 徐悲鸿 达芬奇 梵高 毕加索 梵高 Van Gogh 【New words and expressions】 art n. 艺术 critic n. 评论家 paint v. 画 pretend v. 假装 pattern n. 图案 curtain n. 窗帘，幕布 material n. 材料 appreciate v. 鉴赏 notice v. 注意到 whether conj. 是否 hang v. 悬挂，吊 critically adv. 批评地 upside down 上下颠倒地 Listen to the tape and answer the questions His sister is the student’s best critic. Does the writer study art, or does he study music? Does he paint a lot of pictures or not? (and ) Do many people really understand modern art or not? Do paintings always have a meaning or not? Are they sometimes pretty patterns or not? Do young children appreciate modern paintings better than others or not? Do they notice more or not? (not only…but) When did the writer’s young sister go into his room? Did she examine his new picture or not? (and) Had he hung it upside down, or had he hung it the right way up? Did she notice this immediately or not? (and) Enjoy the story and find the answer The writer is a famous painter and he paints a lot of pictures. Many people like pretending that they understand modern art. Of course, many pictures are “about” something. They are not just pretty patterns. People don’t like those pictures in the same way as pretty curtain material. The writer thinks young children often appreciate modern pictures better than anyone else. The writer’s sister is only seven years old, so she can’t understand the pictures. Yesterday the writer was hanging the picture on the wall when his sister came in. The picture which the writer was hanging was an old one. I found the picture was upside down. My sister looked at the picture critically for only a moment before she said that it was all right. Read the story & decide True