Unit 5 Learning from Nature Starting out & Understanding ideas 学案-2023-2024学年高二英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第三册

【教师版】Unit 5 Period 1 Starting out & Understanding ideas（配套） 【学习目标】 Learning Objectives 1 To develop a view of nature protection by quotes and video 2 To know the main idea and get the specific information from the passage, learn how we can get the inspiration from nature and live harmony with nature 【学习过程】 Learning activities 目标一: To develop a view of nature protection by quotes and video Activity 1: Read the quotes and answer the questions. The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. Claude Monet A painter should regard nature as their teacher, and never stick with just one style of painting. Zhang Daqian Let nature be your teacher. William Wordsworth Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1 What is the common message conveyed in these quotes? 2 Have you ever learnt anything from nature? Give examples. Answers: __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Background information Claude Monet (1840-1926) Claude Monet was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting. Monet's method involved painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) Zhang Daqian was a Chinese painter and is regarded as one of the most gifted masters of the 20th century. Originally a guohua painter, he also became renowned as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter by the 1960s. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer and poet, and one of the most influential