Teaching plan of Unit 4 Reading, The Vincent Van Gogh Exhibition
Oxford English Senior 2B
Teaching objectives:
In this class, students will
1. Read more about Van Gogh’s life and try to understand his special personality and
painting style. Appreciate some of his paintings and observe the things he painted, the
way he painted them and the way he used colors.
2. Listen to a song written in memory of Vincent Van Gogh and try to understand how the
lyrics described Vincent’s painting style and the singer’s feelings for him.
3. Become more interested in art and music. Understand why Vincent deserves such a
great reputation today, why people honor him and his works and how we can cherish life
better.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1: Brief revision of Van Gogh’s life and painting style that students have learned in the
first reading text. (5 minutes)
Step 2: Appreciating some of Van Gogh’s paintings. (20 minutes)
Step 3: Listen to Starry Starry Night with the help of lyrics. (13 minutes)
There are different versions of the song. The original version was composed and sung by
Don McLean, an American folk singer.
Step 4: Conclusion (2 minutes)
Important phrases and expressions:
Minister / art dealer / Hague / the ministry / Amsterdam / missionary / Belgium / miner/ asylum
(精神病院) / palette / mauve / agitated / swirling / twisted /commit / suicide / take one’s life
Some of Vincent Van Gogh’s works:
Potatoes Eaters；（早期作品：吃土豆的人）
Irises （鸢尾花） Blossoming Chestnut Branches （开花的栗树）；
Lilacs （丁香花）；Pink Peach Tree in Blossom （盛开的桃树）
Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun （麦田与收割者）；
Red Poppies and Daisies （红罂粟和雏菊）；
Starry Night over the Rhone （隆河的星夜）
The Church at Auvers （奥维尔教堂）
Vincent’s Bedroom in Arles （文森特在阿尔的卧室）
Night Café with Pool Table （夜晚的咖啡馆）；
Starry Night （星夜），Sunflowers （向日葵）
Some critics of his paintings:
Starry Night:
This painting is probably the most popular of Vincent's works.
The Sunflowers:
Dr. Jan Hulsker, one of the world's foremost scholars of Vincent
van Gogh, suggests that the sunflower series "perhaps more than
any other of his paintings, have made him known throughout the
world. They are often the only works with which he is identified."
C. Night Café with Pool Table （夜晚的咖啡馆）
Vincent van Gogh’s quotation, “I have tried to express with
red and green the terrible passions of human nature.”
Lyrics of Starry Starry Night:
Starry, starry night
paint your palette blue and grey （调色板）
look out on a summer’s day
with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
shadows on the hills
sketch the trees and the daffodils （勾画）
（水仙）
catch the breeze and the winter chills （寒
冷）
in colors on the snowy linen land （亚麻）
now I understand
what you tried to say to me
and how you suffered for your sanity （心
智健全）
and how you tried to set them free
they would not listen
they did not know how
perhaps they'll listen now
starry, starry night
flaming flowers that brightly blazed （燃烧，
发光）
swirling clouds and violet haze （薄雾）
reflect in Vincent’s eyes of china blue
colors changing hue （色调）
morning fields of amber grey （琥珀色）
weathered faces lined in pain （经历风霜
的）
are soothed beneath the artists' loving hand
（抚慰）
now I understand
what you tried to say to me
and how you suffered for your sanity
and how you tried to set them free
they would not listen
they did not know how
perhaps they'll listen now
or they could not love you
but still your love was true
and when no hope was left inside
on that starry, starry night
you took your life as lovers often do
but I could have told you, Vincent
this world was never meant for one as
beautiful as you
starry starry night
portraits hung in empty halls （肖像）
frameless heads on nameless walls
with eyes that watch the world and can't
forget.
like the stranger that you've met
the ragged men in ragged clothes （褴褛
的）
the silver thorn of bloody rose （荆棘，刺）
lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
（纯洁的）
now I think I know
what you tried to say to me
and how you suffered for your sanity
and how you tried to set them free
they would not listen
they're not listening still
perhaps they never will
References：
http://www.vangoghgallery.com
http://way2goal.com/meng/movie/starrynight.html
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