Teaching goals:
1. Talk about art and architecture
2. Practise eXPressing preferences
3. Learn about the Past Participle (2); used as Object Complement
4. Write about advantages and disadvantages
Period 1 Warming Up and Listening
I. Teaching objectives:
1. To stimulate the ss’ awarenass of art and architecture
2. To cultivate the ss’ ability of listening for information
3. To learn some words about art and architecture, such as: style, design, classical, ancient, modern.
II. Teaching Method: task-based teaching.
III. Key Points and Difficult Points:
Key Points: Enable the ss to learn something about art and architecture and cultivate their listening skills.
Difficult Points: Getting the information when listening.
IV. Teaching Aids: slides, racorder
V. Teaching Procedures:
Step1. Warming up for the whole unit and new words presentation. (7 minutes)
Activity1: Talk about art
T: I’m very happy to give you my first lesson. Today, we’ll start a new unit, art and architecture (BB). What is art?
S: …..
T: Is dancing art?
S: Yes.
T: Is singing art?]
S: Yes.
T: Also, drawing is art, right?
S: Yes.
T: Why do we call them art, do you know?
S:…..
T: It is because they have different styles. Style? In chinese it means 风格,样式(BB). For example, dancing, we have folk dancing, 民族舞,modern dancing, 现代舞,right?
S: Yes.
T: So what about music? What styles of music do you know?
S: pop music , R&B….
T: Good, pop mucic, 流行音乐,so what’s English for 古典音乐?
S: …..
T: It’s classical music and we also have rock and roll, 摇滚乐,right? And drawing has different styles too, right?
S: Yes.
T: So what about buildings? Do you think buildings have different styles?
S: Yes.
T: Yes, they have. And we call this architecture. So architecture means styles of buildings. So what styles do buildings have?
S:….
T: Let’s see some pictures and we’ll know.
Activity2: Talk about pictures.
Picture1: Deumo Cathedral
T: Do you know where is it?
S: No.
T: It’s a very big church in Italy. It’s name is Deumo Cathedral. It was built in the end of 13th century. So it is very old, right?
S: Yes.
T: Yes, it’s very old. We call it an antient building. Antient, 古代的(BB)
Picture2: Louvre Museum
T: What about this one?
S: ……
T: It’s a very famous art museum in Paris. Can you guess?
S: …….
T: People who love art all dream to go to this museum. Do you know now?
S: …..卢浮宫
T: Yes. Good. It’s Louvre Museum.
Picture3: A stadium in ShangHai
T: Do you know this one? It’s a stadium in ShangHai. Is it old?
S: No.
T: No, it’s very new. It’s very modern, right? We call it a modern building. Modern, 现代的 (BB).
Picture4: Sydeny Opera House
T: What’s the last one?
S: 悉尼歌剧院
T: Yes. You all know it. It’s Sydeny Opera House in Australia.
Step2. Lead-in for the listening and new words presentation. (16 minutes)
Activity1: Talk about flat and decoration.
T: So here, we have got two styles of buildings, ancient and modern. So do you think nowadays we live in ancient buildings?
S: No.
T: No, of course not. We live in modern buildings. We live in flats. Do you know flats? Flat, 单元房,套房(Bb). Most of us live in flats now. A small flat always has 4 kinds of rooms. What are they?
S:….
T: In chinese we always say, 三室一厅,那么是哪三室,哪一厅呢?
S: 厨房,washroom, bedroom, 客厅
T: What’s English for 厨房 and 客厅?
S: kitchen, ….
T: What about 客厅? Do you know?
S:…
T: It’s living room. Ok, a small flat always has four kinds of rooms, kitchen, bedroom, living room, and a washing room. So, when we buy a new flat, we should decorate these rooms, right? Decorate, 装饰,装修, (bb)
Art and Architecture