Unit 4 Meeting the muse Developing ideas-Art & Technology 教学设计-2024-2025学年高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第一册

教学设计 课程基本信息 学科 英语 年级 高二 学期 秋季 课题 Unit 4 Meeting the muse Developing ideas-Art & Technology 教学目标 1. to make students get the main idea of this article. 2. to help students to find out detailed information about the combination of art and technology. 3. to make students retell the main content of this passage according to the mind map. 4. to help students master some reading strategies in the process of completing tasks. 教学内容 教学重点： To help the students master some reading strategies to get the main idea and detailed information of the article. 教学难点： To help the students retell the passage with the help of mind map. 教学过程 Step 1: Warming-up Look at the two pictures of the sunflowers. Answer the questions: 1. Is this art? 2. Is the creator an artist? Enjoy a video about art and technology and discuss what the difference is between the painting and the photo. Answer: The first picture is created by paint and paintbrush. The second picture is created by camera. Step2: Read for main idea Task: Divide the article into 3 parts and find the main idea of each part : 1. Introduction (para1-3) Main idea: Art and technology have always been seen as two very separate things. 2. Body (para4-7) Main idea: Technological advances have led to a combination of art and technology. 3. Conclusion (Para8) Main idea: We can definitely expect the unexpected. Step3: Read for details Read the passage paragraph by paragraph and finish related tasks. Introduction part: Para1: Think “art”. What comes to your mind? Is it Greek or Roman sculptures in the Louvre, or Chinese paintings in the Palace Museum? Or maybe, just maybe, it’s a dancing pattern of lights? Task: Read to answer the question： The author opens the passage with three questions, what functions do they have? Answer: Question 1 and Question 2: Leading in Question 3: transitional sentence(过渡句） Para2: The artworks by American artist Janet Echelman look like colourful floating clouds when they are lit up at night. Visitors to one of her artworks in Vancouver could not only enjoy looking at it, they could also interact with it—literally. They did this by using their phones to change its colors and patterns. Exhibits such as these are certainly new and exciting, but are they really art? Task: What figure of speech(修辞) is used in the underlined sentence? What’s the function? Answer: Simile (明喻). Function:To make the description easy to understand and imagine for readers. Para3: Whatever your opinion, people have been expressing their thoughts and ideas through art for thousands of years. To do this, they have used a variety of tools and technologies. Yet Michelangelo and others have been labelled as “artists” rather than “technicians”. This means that art and technology have always been seen as two very separate things. Task: Read to answer the question： What is the topic sentence of Para3? Answer: Art and technology have always been seen as two very separate things. Body part: Para4: 1. Organize information from Para4 and complete the diagram on Page 61. 2. Chinese Culture: Introduce the famous painting Along the River During the Qingming Festival（清明上河图）. Artist：Zhang Zeduan of the Song Dynasty The artwork captures the Chinese people’s daily life in the capital of Song Dynasty , Bianjing (汴京） that is today’s Kaifeng. 3.Watch the digital version of this painting. Para5--Para7 Task: Read Para5-Para7 carefully, organize information from Para5 to Para7 and complete the diagram on Page 61. Conclusion part: Para8: 1. Read Para8 carefully, continue to complete the diagram on Page 61. 2. What is The author’s attitude： A. Positive B. Negative C. Doubtful D. Neutral Answer: D Step 4: Self-evaluation自我评价 1. Do you get the main idea of the article? 2. Can you find out the detailed information about the combination of art and technology? 3. Can you retell the main content of this passage according to the mind map? 4. Have you mastered some reading strategies in the process of completing tasks? Step5: Homework Option1: Retell the main content of this passage according to the mind map. Option2: Share with us how technology has affected Dunhuang Art Murals (敦煌艺术壁画). 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$