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Unit 3 The art of painting
Welcome to the unit & Reading
一、教学基本信息
1. 课程名称:Unit 3 The art of painting Welcome to the unit & Reading
2. 学科:高中英语 3. 年级:高二
4. 教材版本:译林版(2020)选择性必修第一册 5. 课时安排:
6. 课型:阅读课 7. 授课教师:
二、教学目标
学完本课后,学生能够
1. 掌握 wander, employ, vivid, worthy, as opposed to 等核心词汇、短语及词根词缀构词法;读懂游记First impressions,梳理文章结构,提炼奥赛博物馆、印象派、莫奈、雷诺阿、梵高的关键信息,能完成正误判断、短文填空等习题。
2. 了解中西方经典绘画作品、绘画分类;理解印象派艺术核心特点,对比中西绘画审美差异,感受绘画 “诗画同源” 的艺术魅力,尊重多元艺术文化。
3. 通过对比、分类、思辨活动,区分印象派与传统写实绘画;分析标题First impressions双重含义,培养逻辑分析与批判性审美思维。
4. 学会用词族拓展词汇、用对比类句型描述艺术差异;能口头介绍画家、画作、美术馆,完成简短文本概括与绘画赏析写作。
三、教学重难点
· 教学重点
1. 梳理游记文本框架,抓取印象派绘画核心特征、奥赛博物馆背景、莫奈与雷诺阿的艺术风格。
2. 掌握核心词汇 employ, wander, worthy、对比类表达 as opposed to、词根词缀构词规律。
3. 能用英语简单介绍画作、画家与美术馆,辨析不同绘画类型。
· 教学难点
1. 理解标题First impressions双层内涵,准确阐释印象派 “捕捉瞬间光影” 的艺术内核。
2. 灵活运用对比句型描述不同绘画流派、画作风格差异。
3. 区分印象派、后印象派的传承与区别,结合画作进行英文赏析表达。
四、教学方法
1. 情景教学法:通过展示《千里江山图》《向日葵》《蒙娜丽莎》《日出・印象》等中外名画,创设艺术课堂情境,直观区分绘画种类与流派。
2. 讲授法:讲解词根词缀、对比类句型、核心词汇用法,搭建词汇与句式知识体系。
3. 合作探究法:双人小组合作完成画作分类、画作赏析、导游介绍等口语任务,锻炼合作表达能力。
五、教学准备
1. 教师准备:配套名画素材、词汇练习单、课堂习题;整理齐白石、莫奈、梵高、雷诺阿作品图文资料。
2. 学生准备:提前预习单元单词;搜集 1 幅自己喜欢的中外绘画作品,准备课堂分享。
六、教学过程
StepⅠ Lead-in
· Activity 1: Appreciate famous paintings & learn the saying
· Present the quote: Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. —Simonides of Ceos
· Show the Chinese painting A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains
(设计意图:以古典名言导入,贴合单元主题 “The art of painting”,快速建立 “诗画相通” 的艺术认知,激发学生课堂兴趣。)
· Activity 2: Free talk
· Display Van Gogh’s Sunflowers and The Harvest.
· Question: Have you ever seen any famous paintings in books, videos or museums?
· Students work in pairs to make short dialogues, invite 3–4 groups to share.
(设计意图:设置低难度口语输出任务,给学生示范句式,降低开口门槛,激活学生已有绘画相关词汇储备。)
Step Ⅱ Welcome to the unit
· Activity 1: Learn types of painting & classify artworks
· Present 6 painting types with Chinese translations:
· Portrait painting 肖像画
· Still life painting 静物画
· Landscape painting 风景画 / 山水画
· Cityscape painting 都市风景画
· Real-life painting 写实画
· History painting 历史题材画
· Show 4 paintings: Mona Lisa, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, Sunflowers, Chinese ink landscape painting.
· Pair discussion:
· Which type do you think each of the paintings belongs to? Why?
· What famous painters and paintings do you know about?
(设计意图:分类词汇 + 名画匹配任务,帮助学生掌握绘画分类核心名词,学会用英文简单描述画作题材。)
Step Ⅲ Pre-reading
· Activity 1: Predict the text
· Show the title First impressions and art gallery pictures, ask students to discuss:
· What do you think the travel journal talks about according to the title and the pictures?
· Guide students to guess: the passage is about visiting an art museum and seeing Impressionist paintings.
· Activity 2: Brainstorm discussion
· Question: Why do people visit art museums?
· Collect students’ answers on blackboard: appreciate great works, learn art history, relax, feel the beauty of paintings etc.
(设计意图:利用标题、插图预测文本主旨,训练读前预测阅读策略,培养读前预判能力;激活背景知识,铺垫博物馆参观主题语境,自然过渡到奥赛博物馆游记文本。)
Step Ⅳ While-reading
· Activity 1: Skimming — General structure analysis
· Ask students to read the whole journal quickly, match paragraphs with main ideas:
· Para 1: The writer expected visiting Musée d’Orsay most during the Paris trip.
· Paras 2–4: Introduction of Impressionist painters Monet and Renoir and their masterpieces.
· Paras 5–6: Common features of Impressionist paintings and their influence on later artists.
(设计意图:引导学生快速略读梳理文章总分结构,抓取各段主旨,建立文本整体框架,培养快速概括段落大意的略读策略,为分段精读做好铺垫。)
· Activity 2: Careful reading and answer the questions
· Read Para. 1 carefully and answer the question:
· What was the Musée d’Orsay built from?
· What art works can we see in this museum?
· Read Paras. 2-4 carefully and answer the question:
· What makes Monet’s water lily works special?
· What kind of scenes did Renoir prefer to paint?
· Read Paras. 5-6 carefully and answer the question:
· What is the core idea of Impressionist painting?
· What double meaning does the title “First impressions” have?
(设计意图:分层分段设问,由浅入深提取文本细节,梳理文章行文脉络;由场馆、画家表层信息过渡到印象派艺术内核,为后续语言输出储备文本依据。)
· Activity 3: True or false judgement
· Students read the journal again, judge 5 statements, mark T/F and find supporting sentences or correct false sentences:
· The author was most impressed by Monet and Renoir. (T)
Supporting sentence: ...the artists who made the deepest impression on me were two of the greatest Impressionist painters, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
· Renoir’s masterpiece Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette is very detailed. (F)
Correction: Renoir’s masterpiece shows very little clear detail.
· The Impressionists tried to paint extremely realistic paintings. (F)
Correction: The Impressionists did not try to paint extremely realistic paintings.
· The Impressionists showed the effect of light on things with colours. (T)
Supporting sentence: They employed free brushwork and used colours to show the effect of light on things, …
· Van Gogh was influenced by Impressionism. (T)
Supporting sentence: The Impressionists’ vision inspired a whole new generation of Post-Impressionist painters such as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, …
(设计意图:以正误判断任务倒逼学生回读文本定位原句,检验文本细节理解,强化课文信息记忆。)
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Step Ⅴ Post-reading
· Activity 1: Pair discussion
· Show three paintings: The Night Watch, Impression, Sunrise, The Gleaners.
· Task: Which one is Impressionist work? Give reasons with given clues (light & colour, loose brushwork, momentary daily scene).
· Conclusion: Monet’s Impression, Sunrise is the Impressionist painting, share standard reasons with class.
(设计意图:通过画作直观对比,巩固印象派绘画特征,实现阅读输入向艺术鉴赏口语输出转化。)
· Activity 2: Oral output
· Offer sample introduction script of Musée d’Orsay.
· Students work in pairs, reorganize the text information to make a short museum introduction for visitors.
· Invite groups to present their guide speech.
(设计意图:整合课文信息进行角色扮演,锻炼篇章概括与口头表达能力,落实单元语言输出目标。)
· Activity 3: Word filling
· Distribute the blank passage about Van Gogh, word bank: employ, display, decade, lay eyes on, gallery, vision, vivid, as opposed to.
· Students finish the blanks individually, then check answers together:
· gallery, decade, display, lay eyes on, employing, vivid, as opposed to, vision
(设计意图:在完整语篇中运用本课核心词汇,检测词汇识记与变形运用能力,拓展后印象派梵高文化知识。)
· Activity 4: Word family learning — Root & suffix
· Present word groups with same root.
· Students add more words of each word family, fill in the table.
· Summarize the rule: Add suffixes to form word families to enlarge vocabulary.
(设计意图:归纳词根词缀构词法,传授高效记词方法,提升学生自主词汇拓展能力。)
· Activity 5: Comparison sentence structures
· Find comparison sentences in the travel journal, sort expressions into two categories:
· Similarities: share, be similar to, like, as ... as
· Differences: as opposed to, in contrast to, be different from, than, unlike
· Rewrite simple sentences with these comparison phrases to practice.
(设计意图:归类对比句型,搭建描述艺术差异的句式框架,解决本课教学难点。)
Step Ⅵ Vocabulary & Exercise
· Activity 1: Key word collocation explanation
· Explain core words with collocations and examples:
· wander, as opposed to, employ, worthy
· Activity 2: Exercises
· Blank filling with prepositions & word forms
· to, to do, It, wandering
· Complete sentences with given words
· wandered around, employ simple lines, is worthy to be kept / is worthy of being kept.
(设计意图:系统精讲重难点词汇搭配,配套分层习题即时巩固,夯实本课语言基础。)
Step Ⅶ Summary
Guide students to review the key points:
· Master core vocabulary about painting and Impressionist art.
· Master comparison phrases to introduce painters and art styles.
· Use new words and expressions in art-related speaking & writing tasks.
· Grasp the features of Impressionism and appreciate the charm of visual art.
七、板书设计
Unit 3 The art of painting
Welcome to the Unit & Reading
1. Text Structure
· Para 1: Expectation for Musée d’Orsay
· Paras 2-4: Monet & Renoir (Impressionist masters)
· Paras 5-6: Features & influence of Impressionism
2. Core Vocabulary & Usages
· wander; employ; vivid; worthy; as opposed to
3. Comparison expressions
· Similarity: share, like, as…as
· Difference: as opposed to, unlike, in contrast to
八、作业布置
· Recite new words and key phrases, finish vocabulary sentence exercises.
· Read the travel journal fluently, write a 60-word summary of the text.
· Search one Impressionist painting you love, write 3–5 sentences to share your opinions.
九、教学反思
本节课以中西名画贯穿课堂,从口语导入、读前预测、分层阅读、读后词汇拓展到口语输出层层递进,完整落实印象派艺术与英语语言双重教学内容。课堂任务丰富,图片素材直观,能充分调动学生审美兴趣,多数学生可掌握核心词汇与对比句型,能简单赏析画作、介绍美术馆。但教学中仍存在不足:
1. 双人讨论环节时间分配不均,部分基础薄弱学生开口表达困难,输出不够充分;
2. 印象派与后印象派的传承关系讲解偏简略,少数学生难以区分梵高与莫奈的风格差异;
3. 词汇填空练习讲评速度较快,部分学生对 employ 变形、worthy 被动结构掌握不扎实。
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