人教英语选修6Unit1Warming up and reading (1)

Which style do you like better? Can you name some famous paintings and their painters? Brain Storm painters paintings Monet Contents: 1. Fast reading 2.Careful reading 3.Intensive reading 4.summaries 5.Exercises Skiming : 2. Why Western art has more change than the Chinese one? 1. What’s the main idea of the text? The style of Western art has changed a lot with time going by. Art is influenced by the costoms and the faith of a people, but China unlike Europe ,has followed a similar way of life for a long time. 3. How many periods of the paintings are mentioned in this text? What are they? 5th C AD 15th 16th 19th 20th The Middle Ages The Renaissance Impressionism Modern Art Time line : Do you want to know more about each period? Let’s have a time travel ! Q: What are the paintings of this period full of ? They are full of religious symbols. Careful reading True or false 1.Artists of this period were interested in showing nature and people as they really were. 2. Paintings in the Middle Ages were very realistic. not They were interested in showing respect and love for god. Until the 13th century painters started to paint in a more realistic way. The Middle Ages become realistic religion people Time: ———————— Artist: ———————— Feature: ◆_________ themes ◆New technique: p________ ◆New ___ paints realistic erspective oil 15th to 16th century AD Masaccio（马萨乔） The Renaissance Crucifixion Leonardo da Vinci Three famous painters at this time 文艺复兴三杰 Michelangelo Raffaello Sanzio 拉斐尔 《西斯廷圣母》 《大卫像》 1. Painters in Renaissance began to focus on A. religion B. humans C. nature D .science 2. In Renaissance, painters returned to classical and ideas about art. A. Roman, Paris B. Greek, London C. Roman, Greek Choose the best answer: 3.Which of the following is not the things the rich people paid famous artists to paint? A.The rich people themselves B. houses and possessions C. the god D. activities and achievements blank filling Impressionism Changes in painting styles In the late 19th century, Europe a great deal .from a mostly society to a mostly one. People moved from to the . There are many and changed agricultural industrial country city new inventions social changes The impressionists tried to break away from the traditional style of the painting. Led to changes Q: Why did the impressionists have to paint quickly? Because natural light changes so quickly. At different time of the day light shadow paintings were not so detailed indoors outdoors Works of the impressionism Starry Night Sun Flowers Sun Set The Style of Modern Art On the one hand----___________ Concentrate on ______________ of the object. Use color, line and ______to represent objects,hard to understand. On the other hand----__________ Look like ____________ certain qualities shape abstract very realistic photographs Modern art period Middle ages Renais-sance Impres-sionism Modern Art time Charac- teristic of painting 5th to 15th century AD religious themes, full of religious symbols 15th to 16th century realistic, perspective, new oil paints Late 19th to early 20th century Paint outdoors, painted changes in light ; not detailed 20th century to today abstract realistic The styles in western art have changed many times.Art is influenced by the customs and _______of a people. During the Middle Ages,the main _______of paiters was to_________religious themes and paintings from this period were full of religious symbols.In the Renaissence,people began to concentrate less on religious theme and_______a more humanistic attitude to life. In the late 19th century,Europe changed___________. Naturally these changes led to new painting style. The ____________ were the first painters to work outdoors.They wanted to show how light and _______fell on objects at different times of day.Nowdays,some modern art is________and some is_______.Who can_______what paiting styles there will be in the future? Short description of the passage： represent aim faith adopt abstract a great deal impressionists shadow realistic predict Vincent Van Gogh Picasso Leonardo da Vinci Giotto di Bondone The Middle Ages The Renaissance Impressionism Modern art Can you match the right style with the paintings ? Key words aim posses technique faith possession conventional adopt typical controversial realistic evident Renaissence abstract ridiculus by coincidence sculpture attempt a great deal gallery shadow on the one hand... predict superb on the other hand... 1. Anyone that is in____of weapons without permission is considered law breaking. A. command B.control C.charge D.possession 2. -How do you like his new movie? -It is____boring than I expected. A.a great deal much B.a great deal of more C. a great deal of much D.a great deal more Intensive exercises: 3.The girl____to figure out the boy's attitude towards her but without success. A.managed B.succeeded C.attempted D. predicted 4. From space,the earth looks blue.This is_____ about seventy-one percent of its surface is covered by water. A. why B.how C.because D.whether 5. I would like a job which pays more,but_____ I enjoy the work I'm doing at the moment. A.in other words B.on the other hand C.for one thing D.as a matter of fact 6.Nowadays,it's still very difficult to____exactly when earthquakes will happen. A.inform B.predict C.prove D. guide