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Unit 3 Lesson 4 Huang Gongwang — a famous painter
一 .Teaching Objectives
1. Linguistic Competence:
Master key vocabulary (landscape painting, masterpiece, technique, significant, contribute to) and sentence structures for introducing artists; grasp descriptive sentences about artworks; complete cloze and reading questions accurately.
2. Cultural Awareness:
Learn about Huang Gongwang, the Four Masters of the Yuan Dynasty and his masterpiece Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains; understand the idea that Chinese paintings carry artists’ feelings; build cultural confidence in traditional Chinese fine arts.
3. Thinking Quality:
Retrieve and sort biographical facts from the passage; analyse the artistic features and cultural value of landscape paintings; organize logical paragraphs to introduce artists independently.
4. Learning Ability:
Develop skimming and scanning reading skills; finish reading tasks step by step; use guided questions to write short passages about artists with scaffolding support.
二. Key and Difficult Points
Key Points
1. Master new words and phrases related to painting and artists.
2. Extract specific information to answer three textbook comprehension questions.
3. Fill in the cloze passage by finding original words from the text.
4. Use fixed frames to introduce a traditional Chinese artist.
Difficult Points
1. Understand abstract expressions: express emotions and thoughts, significant contributions, promote natural beauty.
2. Summarize long answers with concise English sentences suitable for intermediate students.
3. Combine reading input to finish independent short writing tasks smoothly.
三. Teaching Methods
Task-based Language Teaching, Visual Situational Teaching, Stratified Reading Tasks, Inductive Summary Teaching, Scaffolded Writing Instruction, Pair Cooperative Learning
四. Teaching Aids
Textbook, PPT , worksheet, sentence frame handouts for writing
5. Detailed Teaching Procedures
Step 1: Warm-up & Lead-in
Activities
1. Greet students. Review previous lessons: We have learned calligraphy, dramas and movies. Today we will learn traditional Chinese paintings.
2. Show the artwork Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains on PPT. Ask simple guiding questions:
What can you see in this painting?
Do you know who painted it?
3. Introduce the lesson title: Huang Gongwang — a famous painter.
Design Intention
Connect the whole unit’s art-themed knowledge system; use the classic painting to create a visual context; simple open-ended questions lower the learning threshold for students and arouse curiosity about ancient painters.
Step 2: Pre-reading
Activities
1. Present core words and phrases with pictures and text explanations, read aloud as a class and individually:
landscape painting 山水画;masterpiece 杰作;talented artist 有才的艺术家
technique/skill 技法;significant contributions 重大贡献;promote…to the world 向世界推广
2. Explain key phrases from the article with sample sentences:
express emotions and thoughts: Paintings express artists’ inner feelings.
be famous for: Huang Gongwang is famous for landscape paintings.
be considered as: This painting is considered a great masterpiece.
3. Quick check: Match English words with Chinese meanings.
Design Intention
Remove reading barriers in advance; combine images and sentences to help students memorize vocabulary in context; short classroom drills consolidate basic knowledge efficiently.
Step 3: While-reading
Task 1: Skimming
Students read the whole passage quickly and answer:
What is the main idea of this text?
Answer: The article introduces Huang Gongwang’s life, painting style, famous work and cultural influence.
Design Intention:
Train global skimming ability; help students grasp the overall structure of the article (life experience → representative work → artistic value), easy for learners to follow.
Task 2: Scanning
Students read carefully and locate original sentences to answer three questions:
A. Who were the Four Masters of the Yuan Dynasty?
Huang Gongwang, Wu Zhen, Ni Zan and Wang Meng.
B. What skill did Huang use in Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains?
A special skill called “looking closely at nature”.
C. What contributions did Huang make to Chinese art and culture?
His contributions are significant. His works help promote the natural beauty of China to the world.
Teacher guides students to underline evidence in the text.
Design Intention:
Strengthen scanning reading skills; train students to cite text evidence to answer questions, standardize answer logic and adapt to students’ reading level.
Task 3: Cloze completion (Exercise 3)
Finish the paragraph by picking words directly from the article:
1. talented artist
2. landscape paintings
3. considered
4. details
5. peaceful
Check answers as a whole class and explain word choices briefly.
Design Intention:
Consolidate text comprehension and vocabulary; guide students to reuse original words, reducing difficulty for students.
Step 4: Post-reading
Activity 1: Text analysis and sentence sorting
1. Divide the passage into three parts: early life, representative painting, cultural value.
2. Highlight descriptive sentences of the painting; ask students to retell what is shown in Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.
Activity 2: Scaffolded oral sharing
Offer fixed sentence frames for pair discussion:
Huang Gongwang was born in…
His most famous work is…
The painting shows…
His influence is…
Students practise retelling the artist’s story in pairs; teacher offers timely corrections.
Design Intention: Sort article structure to develop logical thinking; sentence frames reduce oral output pressure for students, realize language input to oral output transformation.
Step 5: Production
Activities
1. Introduce Exercise 4 writing requirements, list supportive questions as writing outlines:
A. Artist name B. Most famous work C. Content of the work D. Social influence
2. Provide simple writing templates for students:
My favourite artist is ___. His best-known work is ___. The painting shows ___. It helps people know more about Chinese traditional art.
Students draft a short paragraph in class; invite 1–2 students to share drafts.
Design Intention
Achieve knowledge transfer from reading to writing; structured outlines and templates help students finish writing tasks independently; integrate language output and cultural education.
Step 6: Summary & Homework
Class Summary
1. Teacher reviews key points: Huang Gongwang’s life, masterpiece, painting technique and cultural contributions.
2. Cultural sublimation: Traditional Chinese paintings carry our history and beauty; we should inherit and introduce our national art worldwide.
Homework
1. Basic Task: Copy key words and phrases; read the passage twice fluently.
2. Intermediate Task: Finish all textbook exercises neatly.
3. Extended Task: Complete the short passage about a Chinese artist required in Exercise 4.
Design Intention
Systematically review in-class knowledge; layered homework meets different learning speeds; extend writing practice and cultural exploration after class.
六. Blackboard Design
Lesson 5 Huang Gongwang — a famous painter
1. Core Vocabulary
landscape painting, masterpiece, talented artist, technique, details, peaceful, significant contributions
2. Key Sentence Patterns
be famous for… 因…… 闻名
be considered a masterpiece 被视作杰作
express one’s emotions and thoughts 抒发情感与想法
3. Core Knowledge
Four Masters of Yuan Dynasty: Huang Gongwang, Wu Zhen, Ni Zan, Wang Meng
Famous work: Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
Special skill: looking closely at nature
4. Cultural Value
Promote Chinese natural beauty and traditional art globally
Text Exercise Answers
Exercise 2
A. Huang Gongwang, Wu Zhen, Ni Zan, and Wang Meng.
B. He used a special skill called “looking closely at nature”.
C. He made significant contributions to Chinese art and culture, and his works help spread China’s natural beauty around the world.
Exercise 3 Cloze
1. talented artist
2. landscape paintings
3. considered
4. details
5. peaceful
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