人教版(新教材)高中英語(yǔ)選修3Unit1 Art精品學(xué)案：Reading and Thinking-Comprehending(步步高)

1、Unit 1ArtUnit 1單元主題語(yǔ)境：人與社會(huì)Beauty is the purpose of art and the driving force. 美是藝術(shù)的目的和推動(dòng)力。話題導(dǎo)入Who are the most famous painters in history? Keep reading to find out.Leonardo da Vinci was so intelligent that he was not only a painter but also a sculptor, mathematician, poet, scientist, musician, inven

2、tor, engineer, cartographer, and writer.Leonardo was born in Anchiano, near Vinci, in the province of Florence, Italy in 1452.This was a time of extraordinary changes, not only in the arts, but also in many other cultural areas.The city of Florence was at the center of this important period in the h

3、istory of art.Some of Leonardo s most famous pieces of works are the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and The Vitruvian Ma兒The most well-known museums in the world display his paintings.Michelangelo was born in Caprese, Italy in 1475 and started working as a student to a painter before starting his studi

4、es in the art of sculpting at the Medici gardens.His works include The Statue of David and The Piet a.The Pieta is on display at the Vatican.Even though he was born in Caprese, Michelangelo lived most of his life in Rome, where he created most of his pieces.Raphael was born in 1483 in Urbino, Italy.

5、He became Italian renaissance painter Pietro Perugino s student in 1504 at the age of 21.After this, he started painting his several Madonnas while living in Florence, where da Vinci and Michelangelo influenced him.When he moved to Rome, Pope Julius II hired him as his chief architect.Raphael died i

6、n Rome in 1520 at the age of 2371While he died young, he produced some of the most recognizable masteipieces including all his Madonnas, but also most notably the Madonna in the Sistine Chapel in Rome and his frescoes in the Palace of the Vatican.靚句運(yùn)用于寫作The festival is so wonderful that it attracts

7、a lot of students each year.（2019全國(guó)HI,書面表達(dá)） While you are busy, you d better spare more time to train.（2019全國(guó),書面表達(dá)）Reading and ThinkingComprehending讀前清障/識(shí)記單詞快速順暢閱讀品句猜詞請(qǐng)預(yù)讀以下課文原句，并猜想句中加黑詞匯的意思。In particular9 his paintings are set apart from other paintings by their realistic human faces and deep emotio

8、nal impact.尤其 使與眾不同An important breakthrough during this period was the use of perspective by Masaccio(1401 1428).重大進(jìn)展While painters as early as Da Vinci had used oil, this technique reached its height with Rembrandt( 16061669), who gained a reputation as a master of shadow and liqht.名譽(yù)Kings, nobles

9、, and people of high rank wanted to purchase accurate pictures of themselves and the people they loved.貴族成員 地位，級(jí)別 購(gòu)買From this, Impressionism emerged in France.出現(xiàn)After Impressionism, subsequent artists began to ask, “What do we do next?”隨后的，后來(lái)的語(yǔ)篇理解/精讀演練萃取文本精華 2Step 1 Fast-readingWhat does the passage

10、 mainly tell us?How religious paintings developed.How oil paintings developed.How Impressionist paintings developed.How Western art developed.K答案U D2.Read the passage and judge whether the following statements are true(T) or false(F). (l)Painters were very interested in painting realistic scenes dur

11、ing the Middle Ages.(F) (2)Painters during the Renaissance focused more attention on religious themes.(F) (3)Some painters began to use oil during the Renaissance.(T)(4)The famous painter Monet was crazy about a detailed record of the scene itself.(F) (5)After Impressionism, more and more painters a

12、ttempted to show reality.(F)Step 2 CarefuLreadingRead the passage carefully and choose the best answer.What set Giotto di Bondone s paintings apart from other paintings?A. His paintings mainly showed religious themes.B His paintings showed real people in a real environment.C. His paintings were to c

13、onvey the light and movement in the scene.D. His paintings concentrated less on religious themes.K答案X BWhich wasn t the change in paintings during the Renaissance?A The use of perspective.The use of oil paints.The subjects focused more on people and the world.The subjects focused more on religious t

14、hemes.K答案1 DWhich of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?The photography was invented in the 15th century.B The painters were interested in photography during the Renaissance.Claude Monet was a famous painter during the Middle Ages.Leonardo da Vinci was a famous painter during

15、the Renaissance.K答案U DWhat can we learn from the passage?A. The painters were interested in painting something indoors all the time.B The painting named Sunrise was a masterpiece of Impressionism.The paintings of all the impressionists were cold.All artists were well aware what they would do next af

16、ter Impressionism.K答案I BStep 3 Post-readingAfter reading the passage 9 please fill in the following blanks.As there have been so many different styles of Western art, perhaps the best way l.to understand(understand) Western art is to look at the development of Western painting over the centuries.Dur

17、ing the Middle Ages, the purpose of Western art was 2. to teach (teach) people about Christianity.This began to change in the 13th century with Giotto di Bondone.His paintings are set apart from other paintings by their 3.realistic(reality) human faces and deep emotional impact.Painters concentrated

18、 4.1ess(little) on religious themes during the Renaissance.5.An important breakthrough was the use of perspective by Masaccio and another innovation was the use of oil paints.ln subject matter, the emphasis 6.increasingly(increase) shifted from religious themes to people and the world around us.Phot

19、ography was invented in the mid-19th century, after 7.which paintings were no longer needed to preserve what people and the world looked like.Hence, Impressionism 8.emerged(emerge) in France.The name of this new movement came from the painting by Claude Monet 9.called(call) Impression, Sunrise.After

20、 Impressionism, subsequent artists began to ask what they would do next.What they attempted to do was no longer show reality,lO.but instead to ask the question, “What is art?Step 4 Sentence-leamingInfluential painters such as Leonardo da Vinci( 1452 1519), Michelangelo( 1475 1564), and Raphael( 1483

21、 1520) built upon Giotto and Masaccio s innovations to produce some of the greatest art that Europe had ever seen.K 句式分析 H 該句為復(fù)合句。Influential painters built upon Giotto and Masaccio? s innovations to produce some of the greatest art that Europe had ever seen.是主句;that 弓I 導(dǎo)定語(yǔ) 從句，修飾先行詞some of the greatest art；不定式to produce作目的狀語(yǔ)。K自主翻譯 一些頗具影響力的畫家，例如萊昂納多達(dá)芬奇(14521519)、米開(kāi)朗基羅 (14751564)和拉斐爾(1483 1520),在喬托和馬薩喬的創(chuàng)新基礎(chǔ)上繼續(xù)開(kāi)展，創(chuàng)作出歐洲 前所未見(jiàn)的一些最偉大