Lesson 1 A Matter of Taste
lesson 1 a matter of taste
teaching aims：
to read the text
to practise using prepositions of time, place and movement
to describe a simple scene
teaching difficulties:
to practise using prepositions of time, place and movement
to describe a simple scene
teaching aids: computer and cassette
teaching procedures:
ⅰ. warming up
t: today we read an article named a matter of taste, guess what it is about?
s:
t: the article is about art. show these pictures: cabbage, racing horse and poppy
who drew these pictures?
when students give their answers the teacher show the pictures of painters, qi beishi, xu beihong and chen yifei.
t: which one do you like best? why?
about these painters how much you know about them?
ⅱ reading
read the text, please
task 1
then answer the questions
1. who is famous for drawing pretty women?
2. who is more good at drawing simple pictures we often see in our life.
3. why did chen yifei use black as the background of poppy.
4. who held exhibitions abroad to advance chinese art?
5. what is xu beihong’s masterpiece?
task 2 talking
what characters do these pictures have?
racing horse: the moving hair on the horse’s mane and tail shows a horse running at high speed. using different shades of grey shows the sweat along the horse’s body. the painting of dark and light colors is a favorite of many art lovers.
poppy: to emphasis the woman even more, chen adds lots of detail to her dress and fan, and choose to paint the background black.
morning glory : leaves the audience guessing and makes them use their imagination.
ⅲ correct errors
1. chen yifei’s works is very valuable, and one of his paintings sold at us$ 503,000.
2. the end of the novel leaves readers guess and imagination.
3. her hand hold the fan is elegantly positioned above her knees.
4. he traveled cross the country and painted many pictures.
5. it’s back eyes, that are fixed on the cabbage, show the creature’s interest in the cabbage.
6. the painting of dark and light color is favorite of many art lovers.
answers: 1. at 改為for 2.guess 改為guessing 3.hold 改為holding 4. cross 改為across 5.that 改為which 6. favorite前加 a
ⅳ language points
1. be fixed on用（眼睛等） 盯住，凝視；吸引（注意）
he was fixed on the moving snake, full of fear.
他盯著這條蠕動的蛇， 充滿了恐懼。
tom fixed his attention on the picture that he was drawing.
湯姆的注意力都集中在他正在畫的圖上。
2. leave表示“使/讓（某人/某物）處于某狀態。后面接現在分詞， 形容詞， 過去分詞做賓語補足語。