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

Unit 4 Period 1 Starting out & Understanding ideas 课 堂 学 习 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? 1 Starting out 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. Look at the pictures and read the quotes. Answer the questions. 2 1 What do you know about these people? 2 What is your understanding of the words “imagination”, “inspiration” and “rediscover”? How do they help your understanding of the quotes? 3 Which quote do you most or least agree with? Give your reasons. Imagination creates reality. 想象创造现实。 Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22nd, 1813—February 13th, 1883) German composer, a romantic music master He is an important master in the history of German opera, and a figure connecting the past and the future. He inherited Mozart's opera tradition and started the composing trend of post-romantic opera which was followed by Richard Strauss. At the same time, because of the complexity of his political and religious thoughts (anti-Semitism), he became the most controversial figure in the history of European music. Masterpieces: 黎恩济(Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen 1837-40) 漂泊的荷兰人(Der Fliegende Holl nder, 1843) 汤豪舍(Tannh user, 1845) 罗恩格林(Lohengrin, 1850) 尼伯龙根的指环(DerRingdes Nibelungen, 1876) If we want to be struck by inspiration, we must go deep into your lives. 我们祈求灵感来袭,就必须深入到生活里去。 Mo Yan Mo Yan (February 17, 1955-) A famous Chinese writer and vice chairman of Chinese Writers Association. His writing style is known as "bold and novel", and he is good at blending folk stories, history and contemporary with illusion realism. A Red