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Unit 2 The World of Art
Thinking Skills & Reading Strategies
Learning Objectives
通过本课的学习，学生能够:
1. 理解细节分类的思维技能和作结论的阅读策略。
2. 借助图表和支架，利用细节分类和作结论技能来阅读文本材料。
3. 通过文本阅读微训练，逐步掌握和运用以上技能。
Thinking Skills
Classifying details
When you classify details, you group
similar details together in some way.
musical instruments
小号
笛
钢琴
trumpet
fluet
piano
吉他
guitar
乐器
鼓
drum
violin
小提琴
What type(类型) of instrument do they belong to(属于)
Let's read and find out their types.
How do they work？
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string(弦), beat(击打), keyboard(键盘) or wind
Look at the picture and read the text, and then
learn how to classify details.
According to the types of musical instruments, there are four families: string instruments, beat instruments, keyboard instruments and wind instruments. The violin and erhu belong to the string instruments and the drum belongs to the beat instruments. The piano is an example of the keyboard instruments, and the trumpet is a wind instrument.
Activity 1
There are four types of musical instruments.
String instruments
violin and erhu
Beat instruments
drum
Keyboard instruments
piano
Wind instruments
trumpet
So language means in Chinese.
“语言”
English is a language.
Why do people speak a kind of language
To with other people.
(交流)
communicate
When you read your favorite novel, you are happy.
And when you missed your favorite drama, you are sad.
But when smeone watches the movie Liaozhai, he may feel .
afraid
(感受)
feelings
So different forms and works of art give us differnet .
Both language and art take us to a new world,
then they are a kind of to show our minds and feelings.
(媒介)
medium
How about music
media (pl.)
媒介，媒体
自媒体？
self-media
we media
What is music like
What is music like
Let's read and find out.
Can we use it to communicate with ohters
How does it make us feel
What can it give people
Activity 2
Read the text and complete the detail-classification chart.
What is music Music is a language. It can help us speak our minds and allow us to communicate heart to heart. Music is a tool of showing feelings. It can relax us and make us feel happy, afraid or sad. Music is a medium. It can take us to a world of art and bring together people all over the world.
What is music
It's a language.
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It can help us speak out our minds.
It can allow us to communicate heart to heart.
It's a tool of .
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It can relax us.
It can make us feel happy, afraid or sad.
feelings
It's a .
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It can take us to a world of art.
It can bring together people all over the world.
medium
Activity 3
Pair work. Talk about the benefits of music based on Activity 2.
What is music Music is a language. It can help us speak out our minds and allow us to communicate heart to heart. Music is a tool of feelings. It can relax us and make us feel happy, afraid or sad. Music is a medium. It can take us to a world of art and bring together people all over the world.
allow sb. to do sth
允许某人做某事
relax sb.
让某人放松
The benefits of music
Help to communicate.
More ways to learn art and make people closer.
Show our feelings.
Drawing conclusions
After reading a text, you can combine what you read and what you know to draw a conlusion about what the author doesn't say directly.
Reading Strategies
What does he do？
He is a Beijing opera artist and an actor.
Did his face show a kind of feeling without(没有) speaking？Why
Yes. Because his eyes(眼睛) can express(表达) feelings.
How did he make his eyes different from others
Read the text and you will have a conclusion（结论）.
Activity 1
Read the text about the famous Beijing opera artist, Mei Lanfang,
and learn how to draw a conclusion.
Good actors know how to use their eyes to express their minds. To train his eyes, Mei Langfang often watched the pigeons flying far away in the sky.
What you read
What you know
Now you conclude
Mei was a great Beijing opera artist.
Mei often trained his eyes by watching the pigeons flying.
The eye training was helpful.
Activity 2
Read more about Mei plete the sentences and draw another conclusion.
When Mei was young, he had great difficulty in remembering the lines of Beijing opera. But he worked very hard and was very strict with himself. He got up very early every day and practiced the lines again and again.
What you read
What you know
Now you conclude
makes perfect.
Mei got up very early and .
Mei remembered the lines through .
practiced the lines again and again
Practice
practice and hard work
have (great) difficulty in doing sth.
做某事有很大困难
Mei Lanfang had great difficulty in remembering the lines, but why did he practice them again and again
Because he was hard-working and was strict with himself.
be strict with sb.对某人要求严格
Practice makes perfect.
孰能生巧。
perfect (adj.) 完美的，极好的
perfect time
完美时刻，
时间恰恰好
strict (adj.)
要求严格的，严厉的
Activity 3
Read the text about Qi Baishi. Underline the sentence that helps you draw a conclusion, and then complete the last two steps.
Qi Baishi first learned painting all by himself. Then in his twenties, he began to travel around China to visit famous painters and study their paintings. Finally, in his mid-fifties, his paintings became popular, and he became famous all over the China.
What you read
What you know
Now you conclude
It is very important for us to .
The underlined sentence.
Qi learned a lot from .
continuously learn and seek inspiration from others
famous painters
Then in his twenties, he began to travel around China to visit famous painters
and study their paintings.
paint
painting
painter
This painter's paintings became popular, epecially with famous people,
because he painted perfectly.
popular (adj. )
受欢迎的，流行的
【pop】
be popular with sb.
受某人的欢迎
流行音乐 pop music
京剧受所有人的欢迎, 无论老少。
Beijing opera is popular with all people, young or old.
Summary
We learn:
1. 乐器类型和文艺训练的单词；
2. 细节分类的概念和技能；
3. 作结论的概念和策略。
We can:
1. 用图表来进行细节分类；
2. 对一段阅读材料作结论；
Homework
You should
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know about the words of instruments;
use a chart to classify details;
draw a conclusion in reading.
You may
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work with your partners in pair.
Thank you!
