内容正文:
SB1U4 Meeting the muse
Vocabulary -- Listening (page 55-57)
Have you ever visited an art exhibition?
Posters of art exhibitions
Activity 5:
Task 1: Look at this poster, what information can you get about the
exhibition?
Task 2: Read the comments and answer the questions.
Pay attention to the compound adjectives in bold.
1 What is the exhibition about? What artworks might you see in it?
The exhibition is about abstract art. We can see Storm and Superhighway in it.
2 Which comment makes the greatest impression on you? Give your reasons.
3 Do you want to go to this exhibition after reading the comments? Why or why not?
Activity 6:
Match the compound adjectives in Activity 5 to their meanings.
1 ________________: extremely impressive so as to take one’s breath away
2 ________________: known by a lot of people
3 ________________: making you feel great respect and admiration, and sometimes fear
4 ________________: very good at doing something
5 ________________: innovative, using new methods or achieving new results
6 ________________: very expensive
breathtaking
well-known
awe-inspiring
highly-skilled
ground-breaking
over-priced
compound adjectives
Think of more compound adjectives to describe an art exhibition or an artwork.
Group Work
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Listening and Speaking
Activity 7:
Read the passage and answer the questions.(P56)
1. What else do you know
about Pablo Picasso and
Feng Zikai?
2. What other artists are
famous for representing
war and peace? What are
their best-known artworks?
Pablo
Picasso
Feng
Zikai
Activity 8:
Listen to the audio guide and find out the main passage of each artwork.(P57)
The tragedy of war
Hopes in war
Guernica
The Battlefield in Spring
延伸阅读文本:
The title of this painting is Guernica. It was painted by the well- known Spanish artist,Pablo Picasso. Picasso painted this huge, breathtaking painting after the attack on the town of Guernica by the Nazis. It measures about 3.5