内容正文:
ART
&
TECHNOLOGY
Meeting the muse -developing ideas
Book 4 Unit4
Watch the video and answer the questions.
lens
n.透镜;镜片
Do you think technology can be considered a form of art?
What methods did they use to create the artworks?
Look at the picture and read the title, predict what the passage is about.
It is about the changes and connections between art and technology.
ART
&
TECHNOLOGY
What’s the genre of the passage?
A . narrative (a story)
B . argumentation (facts and opinoins)
C . news report
D. exposition (introduction)
while - reading
ART&
TECHNO
LOGY
How many parts can this passage be divided into?
1 Introduction
论据
2 Arguments
3 Conclusion
para 1-3
para 4-7
para 8
argumentation
Think “art”. What comes to your mind?
Para.1
Greek or Roman sculptures in the Louvre?
Chinese paintings in the Palace Museum?
or maybe, it’s a dancing pattern of lights?
Janet Echelman
“The artworks by American artist Janet Echelman look like colourful floating clouds when they are lit up at night.”
Para.2
light up (使)光亮;喜形于色
美国艺术家珍妮特·艾克曼的作品在夜晚被点亮时,看起来就像五颜六色的浮云。
Visitors to one of her artworks in Vancouver could not only enjoy looking at it, they could also interact with it - literally.
Para.2
literally adv. 根据字面意思;确实
在温哥华参观她作品的游客不仅可以欣赏它,还确实可以与它互动。
Whatever your opinion, people have been expressing their thoughts and ideas through art for thousands of years.
Para.3
whatever 在句中引导让步状语从句,可以用no matter what来替换。本句中your opinion后省略了is。
无论你的看法如何,数千年来人们一直通过艺术来表达自己的理念和思想
Yet Michelangelo and others have been labelled as “artists” rather than “technicians”.
Para.3
be labelled as... 被称为……,
label...as.... 把……称为……
然而,米开朗基罗和其他人被称为“艺术家”,
而不是“技术人员”。
rather than ;而不是
Activity 3
Organise information from the passage and complete the diagram.
Positive effects
Today, technological advances 1 ________
_________________
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Argument 1:
Art is more accessible to us than ever before.
Example(s): 2 ______________________
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