Unit 4 Meeting the Muse Starting out & Understanding ideas 课件-2023-2024学年高二英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第一册

外研选择性必修 第一册 Unit 4 Period 1 Starting out & Understanding ideas (I) 教学目 Lead-in Tick what you think are the most important sources of inspiration for artists childhood family and friends books and films other artists history travel nature social issues private feelings culture and traditions imagination 1 2 To know four great people by watching video or looking at the pictures To find out the famous works and inspiration of three artists and talk about how we can get inspiration in study and life and achieve success 学习目标 目标一：To know four great people by watching video or looking at the pictures Activity 1:Watch the video and answer the questions. 1 Which artist is the video about? Which of his works are mentioned? 2 What inspired the artist? The video is about Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Mona Lisa and many drawings and notes of his ideas for his inventions including a parachute, a form of helicopter and a strange flying machine with flapping wings. The natural world, such as birds and their mysterious power of flight. Activity 2: Look at the pictures and read the quotes. 1 What do you know about these people? Richard Wagner was a world-famous German composer Mo Yan is the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature; Auguste Rodin was a world-famous French sculptor; Pablo Picasso was a world-famous Spanish painter. Richard Wagner (1813—1883) was a German composer best known for his operas. Wagner began learning the piano when he was very young, and was soon able to write musical compositions. Wagner’s music is renowned for its complex nature, its harmonies and the way in which individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements in his operas are associated with musical themes. Imagination creates reality. Richard Wagner Mo Yan was born in Gaomi, Shandong Province. He is a novelist and short story writer. He is well-known for his imaginative and humanistic fiction. In 2011, Mo Yan received the Mao Dun Literature Prize.