人教版(新教材)高中英语选修3Unit1 Art精品学案：Reading and Thinking-Comprehending(步步高)

1、Unit 1ArtUnit 1单元主题语境：人与社会Beauty is the purpose of art and the driving force. 美是艺术的目的和推动力。话题导入Who are the most famous painters in history? Keep reading to find out.Leonardo da Vinci was so intelligent that he was not only a painter but also a sculptor, mathematician, poet, scientist, musician, inven

2、tor, engineer, cartographer, and writer.Leonardo was born in Anchiano, near Vinci, in the province of Florence, Italy in 1452.This was a time of extraordinary changes, not only in the arts, but also in many other cultural areas.The city of Florence was at the center of this important period in the h

3、istory of art.Some of Leonardo s most famous pieces of works are the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and The Vitruvian Ma儿The most well-known museums in the world display his paintings.Michelangelo was born in Caprese, Italy in 1475 and started working as a student to a painter before starting his studi

4、es in the art of sculpting at the Medici gardens.His works include The Statue of David and The Piet a.The Pieta is on display at the Vatican.Even though he was born in Caprese, Michelangelo lived most of his life in Rome, where he created most of his pieces.Raphael was born in 1483 in Urbino, Italy.

5、He became Italian renaissance painter Pietro Perugino s student in 1504 at the age of 21.After this, he started painting his several Madonnas while living in Florence, where da Vinci and Michelangelo influenced him.When he moved to Rome, Pope Julius II hired him as his chief architect.Raphael died i

6、n Rome in 1520 at the age of 2371While he died young, he produced some of the most recognizable masteipieces including all his Madonnas, but also most notably the Madonna in the Sistine Chapel in Rome and his frescoes in the Palace of the Vatican.靓句运用于写作The festival is so wonderful that it attracts

7、a lot of students each year.（2019全国HI,书面表达） While you are busy, you d better spare more time to train.（2019全国,书面表达）Reading and ThinkingComprehending读前清障/识记单词快速顺畅阅读品句猜词请预读以下课文原句，并猜想句中加黑词汇的意思。In particular9 his paintings are set apart from other paintings by their realistic human faces and deep emotio

8、nal impact.尤其 使与众不同An important breakthrough during this period was the use of perspective by Masaccio(1401 1428).重大进展While painters as early as Da Vinci had used oil, this technique reached its height with Rembrandt( 16061669), who gained a reputation as a master of shadow and liqht.名誉Kings, nobles

9、, and people of high rank wanted to purchase accurate pictures of themselves and the people they loved.贵族成员 地位，级别 购买From this, Impressionism emerged in France.出现After Impressionism, subsequent artists began to ask, “What do we do next?”随后的，后来的语篇理解/精读演练萃取文本精华 2Step 1 Fast-readingWhat does the passage

10、 mainly tell us?How religious paintings developed.How oil paintings developed.How Impressionist paintings developed.How Western art developed.K答案U D2.Read the passage and judge whether the following statements are true(T) or false(F). (l)Painters were very interested in painting realistic scenes dur

11、ing the Middle Ages.(F) (2)Painters during the Renaissance focused more attention on religious themes.(F) (3)Some painters began to use oil during the Renaissance.(T)(4)The famous painter Monet was crazy about a detailed record of the scene itself.(F) (5)After Impressionism, more and more painters a

12、ttempted to show reality.(F)Step 2 CarefuLreadingRead the passage carefully and choose the best answer.What set Giotto di Bondone s paintings apart from other paintings?A. His paintings mainly showed religious themes.B His paintings showed real people in a real environment.C. His paintings were to c

13、onvey the light and movement in the scene.D. His paintings concentrated less on religious themes.K答案X BWhich wasn t the change in paintings during the Renaissance?A The use of perspective.The use of oil paints.The subjects focused more on people and the world.The subjects focused more on religious t

14、hemes.K答案1 DWhich of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?The photography was invented in the 15th century.B The painters were interested in photography during the Renaissance.Claude Monet was a famous painter during the Middle Ages.Leonardo da Vinci was a famous painter during

15、the Renaissance.K答案U DWhat can we learn from the passage?A. The painters were interested in painting something indoors all the time.B The painting named Sunrise was a masterpiece of Impressionism.The paintings of all the impressionists were cold.All artists were well aware what they would do next af

16、ter Impressionism.K答案I BStep 3 Post-readingAfter reading the passage 9 please fill in the following blanks.As there have been so many different styles of Western art, perhaps the best way l.to understand(understand) Western art is to look at the development of Western painting over the centuries.Dur

17、ing the Middle Ages, the purpose of Western art was 2. to teach (teach) people about Christianity.This began to change in the 13th century with Giotto di Bondone.His paintings are set apart from other paintings by their 3.realistic(reality) human faces and deep emotional impact.Painters concentrated

18、 4.1ess(little) on religious themes during the Renaissance.5.An important breakthrough was the use of perspective by Masaccio and another innovation was the use of oil paints.ln subject matter, the emphasis 6.increasingly(increase) shifted from religious themes to people and the world around us.Phot

19、ography was invented in the mid-19th century, after 7.which paintings were no longer needed to preserve what people and the world looked like.Hence, Impressionism 8.emerged(emerge) in France.The name of this new movement came from the painting by Claude Monet 9.called(call) Impression, Sunrise.After

20、 Impressionism, subsequent artists began to ask what they would do next.What they attempted to do was no longer show reality,lO.but instead to ask the question, “What is art?Step 4 Sentence-leamingInfluential painters such as Leonardo da Vinci( 1452 1519), Michelangelo( 1475 1564), and Raphael( 1483

21、 1520) built upon Giotto and Masaccio s innovations to produce some of the greatest art that Europe had ever seen.K 句式分析 H 该句为复合句。Influential painters built upon Giotto and Masaccio? s innovations to produce some of the greatest art that Europe had ever seen.是主句;that 弓I 导定语 从句，修饰先行词some of the greatest art；不定式to produce作目的状语。K自主翻译 一些颇具影响力的画家，例如莱昂纳多达芬奇(14521519)、米开朗基罗 (14751564)和拉斐尔(1483 1520),在乔托和马萨乔的创新基础上继续开展，创作出欧洲 前所未见的一些最伟大