Unit 2 The World of Art Lesson 3 Thinking Skills & Reading Strategies (24页）课件 仁爱科普版英语 八年级上册

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Thinking skills & Reading strategies
The World of Art
Unit 2
Learning aims
学会归类细节信息
学会根据文本信息得出结论
Lead in
Watch and say
Can you guess the sound
Activity 1
Learn to classify details
Look at the picture and find out how many types of musical instruments are there. What are they
string instruments
beat instruments
keyboard instruments
wind instruments
Four
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.
String instruments
violin
erhu
Beat instruments
drum
Keyboard instruments
piano
Wind instruments
trumpet
Wind instruments
trumpet
Beat instruments
drum
Keyboard instruments
piano
String instruments
violin and erhu
There are four types of musical instruments.
Classifying details
When you classify details, you group similar details together in some way.
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’s a tool of _____________
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It’s a ___________
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It can help us speak our minds.
It can allow us to communicate heart to heart.
showing feeling
It can relax us.
It can make us feel happy, afraid or sad.
medium
It can take us to a world of art.
It can bring together people all over the world.
Pair work. Talk about the benefits of music based on the chart.
What is music
It’s a language
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It’s a tool of _____________
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It’s a ___________
◎________________________________________________________
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It can help us speak our minds.
It can allow us to communicate heart to heart.
showing feeling
It can relax us.
It can make us feel happy, afraid or sad.
medium
It can take us to a world of art.
It can bring together people all over the world.
A: Music is a great language. It speaks to our minds and helps us communicate heart to heart. So it can strengthen our relationships.
B: Yes, and as a tool of feelings, it relaxes us and lets us experience different emotions, which is good for our mental health.
Activity 2
Learn to use reading strategy “Drawing conclusions”
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 Lanfang often watched the pigeons flying far away into the sky.
What you read
Mei often trained his eyes by watching the pigeons flying.
What you know
Mei Was a great Beijing Opera artist.
Now you conclude
The eye trainning was helpful.
After reading a text, you can combine what you read and what you know to draw a conclusion about what the author doesn’t say directly.
Drawing conclusions
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
Mei got up very early and ____________________
________________________.
What you know
___________ makes perfect.
Now you conclude
Mei remembered the lines through _________________________.
practiced the lines again and again
Practice
the lines of Beijing Opera
Read the text about Qi Baishi. Underline the sentence that helps you draw a conclusion.
At first, Qi Baishi 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 China.
What you read
The underlined sentence.
What you know
It is important for us to _______________.
Now you conclude
Qi learned a lot from _________________
__________________________________.
learn from others
other painters
Summary
◆Classify details
◆Draw conclusions
When you classify details, you group similar details together in some way.
After reading a text, you can combine what you read and what you know to draw a conclusion about what the author doesn’t say directly.
Homework
1 Finish the exercise in this period.
2 Preview the reading passage in the next period.