内容正文:
Artists around the World
1. Teaching Objectives
1. Linguistic Ability:
Master key vocabulary (sculptor, unique, style, influence, celebrated, subject, peace award); understand the passage; finish matching and comprehension questions; introduce an artist with simple sentences.
2. Cultural Awareness:
Learn world-famous Western artists and Chinese master Qi Baishi; appreciate classic Chinese ancient paintings; respect diverse global arts and take pride in traditional Chinese art.
3. Thinking Quality:
Compare different artists’ backgrounds and painting styles; classify information logically; infer key details from texts and pictures.
4.Learning Ability:
Use skimming and scanning reading skills; cooperate in group discussion; autonomously collect information about artists.
二. Teaching Key Points & Difficult Points
Key Points
1. Master new words and fixed phrases related to artists and paintings.
2. Grasp scanning reading skills to match artists with their personal introductions.
3. Answer three comprehensive questions accurately based on the article.
4. Recognize five classic traditional Chinese paintings.
Difficult Points
1. Distinguish the different identities, nationalities and artistic features of Michelangelo, Picasso, Van Gogh and Qi Baishi.
2. Express personal opinions on the beauty of ancient Chinese paintings in simple English sentences.
3. Use target language to briefly introduce one artist independently.
三. Teaching Methods
Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT), Situational Teaching Method, Cooperative Learning, Skimming & Scanning Reading Strategy Training, Visual Aids Teaching.
四. Teaching Aids
PPT, artist pictures, painting cards, worksheet, textbook
五.Detailed Teaching Procedures
Step 1: Warm-up & Lead-in
Teacher’s Activities
1. Greet the whole class. Show four pictures of Michelangelo’s sculpture, Van Gogh’s oil painting, Picasso’s abstract work and Qi Baishi’s ink painting on PPT. Ask guiding questions:
Do you know these paintings?
Who drew these great works?
2. Present the lesson title Artists around the World and lead students to read aloud.
3. Pre-teach key new words with pictures: artist, painter, sculptor, unique style, influence, celebrated, insect, peace award. Guide students to read and repeat.
Students’ Activities
Answer simple open-ended questions; follow the teacher to pronounce new words; match words with corresponding pictures.
Design Purpose
Activate students’ existing knowledge of paintings; create a relaxed class atmosphere; pave vocabulary foundation for the following reading; arouse students’ learning interest with vivid visuals, suitable for students.
Step 2: Pre-reading
Teacher’s Activities
1. Show the four artists’ portraits on the screen. Ask students to guess their countries and jobs first without reading the passage.
2. Present prediction tasks:
Where are these artists from?
What are they famous for?
3. Remind students of two reading skills:
Skimming: Get the main idea quickly.
Scanning: Find specific information for matching exercises.
Students’ Activities
Make simple guesses; take notes of new reading skills; get ready for the formal reading task.
Design Purpose
Train students’ predictive thinking quality; clarify reading strategies in advance, helping students read purposefully instead of reading blindly; reduce reading difficulty.
Step 3: While-reading
Activity 1: Skimming
Teacher’s task: Ask students to read the whole passage quickly within 2 minutes and answer: What is the main idea of this article?
Guide answer: It introduces several world-famous artists and tells us the meaning of art.
Student task: Finish fast reading and share the general idea voluntarily.
Design Purpose
Improve students’ skimming ability and global text comprehension ability.
Activity 2: Scanning
1. Let students read the passage carefully and match each artist with the correct description individually for 4 minutes.
2. Check answers together on the blackboard:
Picasso — He was a modern painter, born in 19th century Spain.
Qi Baishi — He won the International Peace Award in 1956.
Michelangelo — He was an Italian painter and sculptor.
Vincent Van Gogh — He was a Dutch painter famous for his oil paintings.
3. Explain difficult sentences for intermediate students: Not just for the quality and unique style of their art works, but also for their influence on culture.
Student task: Complete matching independently; correct mistakes; take notes of difficult sentences.
Design Purpose:
Practise core scanning skill; consolidate textual details; solve grammar obstacles timely for students to avoid learning frustration.
Activity 3: Read carefully and answer Comprehension Questions (Exercise 2)
1. Divide students into groups of four. Discuss three questions for 5 minutes and write down answers.
2. Invite groups to share answers; teacher gives corrections and standard expressions:
A. They are remembered for the quality and unique style of their works, as well as their influence on culture.
B. He painted small details of nature, such as birds, insects and fish.
C. Art represents us and our culture: past, present, and future.
3. Highlight key answer sentences in the textbook together.
Student task: Group discussion; organize simple English answers; present results in class.
Design Purpose:
Develop cooperative learning ability; upgrade students’ information sorting and language output ability; lower difficulty via group discussion for learners.
Step 4: Post-reading
Activity 1: Match Chinese classic paintings (Exercise 3)
1. Show five Chinese ancient paintings and their names. Guide students to match pictures with titles by painting features:
1st picture: D Along the River During the Qingming Festival
2nd picture: B A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains
3rd picture: E Spring Morning in the Han Palace
4th picture: A Five Oxen
5th picture: C One Hundred Horses
2. Briefly introduce each painting’s cultural value in simple English.
Activity 2: Group Talk
Task: Choose one painting and talk about its beauty with partners. Give sentence frames for intermediate students:
I like ... best. It looks ... It shows beautiful Chinese traditional art.
Teacher walks around the classroom to offer language support for weak students.
Design Purpose:
Promote cultural awareness by spreading traditional Chinese art; provide fixed sentence frames to help students express ideas confidently; realize output from input.
Step 5: Summary & Homework
Class Summary
Teacher leads students to review: key artists, nationalities, core features, new words, and the theme meaning: Art connects different cultures all over the world.
Emphasize the emotional goal: Be proud of Chinese traditional artists and artworks.
Homework
1.Basic Task: Recite key words; finish all textbook exercises; read the passage aloud twice.
2.Improvement Task: Write a 3-sentence short introduction about Qi Baishi.
3.Extended Task: Search one local Chinese artist online and prepare a short sharing for next class.
Design Purpose:
Consolidate in-class knowledge; layered homework matches students’ learning level; extend learning to after class and integrate cultural learning continuously.
六. Blackboard Design
Artists around the World
Key Artists
1. Michelangelo: Italian, painter & sculptor
2. Picasso: Spanish, modern painter
3. Van Gogh: Dutch, oil paintings
4. Qi Baishi: Chinese, nature animals; Peace Award 1956
Key Words
sculptor, unique style, influence, celebrated, insect
Sentence Frame
Art represents our culture: past, present, future.
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