Unit1 The Best of Manhattan’s Art Gallery
Step1 leading in
Where can we see these paintings?
Step2: Fast reading to get general ideas
Question: If you are given only one minute, how will you read the passage?
Reading skill
Generally speaking, the title indicates the main idea of the text. And the first paragraph is the introduction of the whole passage. So in order to get the main idea easily, we should pay more attention to the title and the first paragraph.
Task1: What’s the main idea of this passage? (1minute)
Task2: Match the numbers on the map with the museums. (1minute)
Step2: Careful reading to get Detail information
Task1: complete the chart on page7
name
Which centuries?
What countries
Art collections
The Frick
Collection
?
western countries
?
Guggenheim Museum
?
?
Task2: Time to have a competition. Read the given paragraphs again, try to find the answers as quickly as possible ★Anyone who is the first to give correct answer will get a star for your group. ★
Quiz I: Look at the following picture and guess which museum it is. (para1-3)
Q2: Which gallery is named after its founder’s name? (para1-3)
Q3: It will appeal to those who love impressionist paintings. The phrase “appeal to” can be replaced by the verb_____. （para1-3）
Q4. If you want to know how people lived 5,000 years ago, you should visit _____. (para1-3)
A. Metropolitan Museum of Art
B. Whitney Museum of American Art
C. Museum of Modern Art
D. Guggenheim Museum
Q5: The reputation of this museum lies in the variety of its art collection. The synonym (同义词)of reputation here is___.(para1-3)
A. location B. fame C. Size D. Culture
Q6: This covers more than 5000 years of civilization from many parts of the world. “cover” here means____ (para3)
(Choose the sentence in which “cover” has the same meaning as this one)
A. You can later cover the story by yourself.
B. We have covered 10 miles now.
C. Will 20 dollars cover this meal?
D. The lecture covers many subjects.
Q7: I n which museum can you see Van Gogh and Monet’s pictures? (para4-5)
Q8. You can expect to see videos and films in Whitney Museum of American Art by_____. (para4-5)
Step3: Consolidation
Complete the passage according to the information in the text.
(5minutes)
Many art lovers would rather visit this small art gallery____ any other in New York. Henry Clay Frick, a rich New Yorker, died in 1919, __________ (leave) his house, furniture and art collection to the American people. Frick had a _________ (prefer) for pre-twentieth century Western paintings. You can explore Frick’s beautiful home and garden which are well worth ________ (visit).
It will appeal to ______ who love Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. When you walk in the gallery, you feel as if you _______ inside a fragile, white seashell.
The reputation of this museum ______ (lie) in the ______ (vary) of its art collection. It is __________ (amaze) that so many great works of art from the late 19th century to the 21st _____________ (house) in the same museum.
Step4: Discussion
Imagine an interview
If you are interviewing a visitor coming back from one of these five art galleries, what will you talk about? ( which, where, why, how…)
Try to use these phrases and structures in the text:
1. I would rather visit… than… 2. I have a preference for…
3 …be well worth a visit. 4. It owns/covers/holds…
5. When you walk into the gallery, you feel…
Step5. Homework
Look for more information about paintings at
http://tu.tom.com/list/culture.
课件28张PPT。Unit1 The Best Of Manhattan’s Art Gallery人教版高二英语选修六
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to get
general ideasQuestion: If you are given only one minute, how will you read the passage? Reading skillGenerally speaking, the title indicates the main idea of the text. And the first paragraph is the introduction of the whole passage. So in order to get the main idea easily, we should pay more attention to the title and the first paragraph.Task1: What’s the main idea of this passage? (1minute)
Task2: Match the numbers on the map with the museums.(1minute) The passage introduces some best art galleries of Manhattan.12345The Frick CollectionGuggenheim MuseumMetropolitan Museum of ArtMuseum of Modern ArtWhitney Museum of American ArtstreetavenueMatch the numbers on the map with the museums. Step2:Careful reading
to get
Detail information
Task1:complete the chart on page7modern (from late 19th century onwards)pre-twentieth centurypre-twentieth century Western paintingsImpressionist and Post-Impressionist paintingscontemporary(mainly living artists)late 19th century to the 21st centurywestern countriescontemporary American painting and sculpturewestern paintings by famous artistsCountries all over the worldthe visual delights of art and ancient ways of livingTask2: Time to have a competition. Read the given paragraphs again, try to find the answers as quickly as possible ★Anyone who is the first to give correct answer will get a star for your group. ★Look at the following picture and guess which museum it is.
(para1-3) Quiz IGuggenheim Museum
Q2:Which gallery is named after its founder’s name?(para1-3)
Q3:It will appeal to those who love impressionist paintings. The phrase “appeal to” can be replaced by the verb_____. （para1-3）
The Frick Collectionattract
Q4. If you want to know how people lived 5,000 years ago, you should visit _____.(para1-3)
A. Metropolitan Museum of Art
B. Whitney Museum of American Art
C. Museum of Modern Art
D. Guggenheim Museum
Q5:The reputation of this museum lies in the variety of its art collection. The synonym (同义词)of reputation here is___.(para1-3)
A. location B. fame
C. Size D. Culture
Q6:This covers more than 5000 years of civilization from many parts of the world. “cover” here means____ (para3)
(Chinese meaning)
(Choose the sentence in which “cover” has the same meaning as this one)
A. You can later cover the story by yourself.
B. We have covered 10 miles now.
C. Will 20 dollars cover this meal?
D. The lecture covers many subjects.
Q7: I n which museum can you see Van Gogh and Monet’s pictures?(para4-5)Museum of modern artQ8. You can expect to see videos and films in Whitney Museum of American Art by_____.(para4-5)
Contemporary video artists
Complete the passage
According to
the information in the text.
(5minutes)Step3: Consolidation Many art lovers would rather visit this small art gallery____ any other in New York. Henry Clay Frick, a rich New Yorker, died in 1919,__________(leave) his house, furniture and art collection to the American people. Frick had a _________ (prefer) for pre-twentieth century Western paintings. You can explore Frick’s beautiful home and garden which are well worth ________ (visit).
It will appeal to ______ who love Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. When you walk in the gallery, you feel as if you _______ inside a fragile, white seashell.
The reputation of this museum ______ (lie) in the ______ (vary) of its art collection. It is __________(amaze) that so many great works of art from the late 19th century to the 21st _____________ (house) in the same museum.thanleavingpreferencewereamazingvisitingvarietythoseliesare housedStep4: Discussion Imagine an interview
If you are interviewing a visitor coming back from one of these five art galleries, what will you talk about?( which, where, why, how…)
Try to use these phrases and structures in the text:
1.I would rather visit… than…
2. I have a preference for…
3….be well worth a visit.
4. It owns/covers/holds…
5. When you walk into the gallery, you feel…
Look for more information about paintings at
http://tu.tom.com/list/culture.HomeworkThank you.课后反思
这节阅读课通过指导学生阅读技巧，检测阅读效果，发现很多学生在快速把握文章主题，猜测词义句意，细节理解掌握方面还是存在一定的问题。例如，对句意理解不够准确，或者很难对问答题做出快速有效的回应，总结能力，找出关键词句的能力还有待进一步提高。
阅读之后的总结输出过程，不同的学生表现差别很大，很多学生不能在规定的时间内，按照要求完成对话题讨论的总结，展示。但是部分同学可以很好的完成，表现出较强的语言运用和表达能力。
