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Unit 4 Meeting the muse
Understanding ideas
Prediction
Predict what the passage is mainly about according to the title “What inspires you ” and the words in the picture.
Tick what you think are the most important sources of inspiration for artists.
□ childhood □ family and friends
□ books and films □ other artists
□ history □ travel
□ nature □ social issues
□ private feelings □ culture and traditions
□ imagination
Every artist’s wish is to create something that expresses an idea. But where do artists get their ideas from Who or what inspires them Here we find out more about the influences behind the successes of three very different artists.
What inspires you
Pre-reading: Lead-in
Florentijn Hofman visual artist
Tan Dun
Read the passage and find out what inspires each artist.
What inspires him
Hofman gets inspiration from his children’s toys, Chinese folk tales, Wuzhen and the way people lived there.
Fast reading: Skim for gist / main idea
What inspires him
Tan Dun gets inspiration from Chinese musical traditions and Western influences.
Fast reading: Skim for gist / main idea
What inspires her
Yang Liping gets inspiration from her life in Xishuangbanna, the peacock, and the dance
style of the Dai people.
Fast reading: Skim for gist / main idea
1. on display _______________
2. turn to _______________
3. through the generations _______________
4. be grateful for _______________
5. universal expression _______________
6. bring out _______________
展出
转向；求助于
历经世代
感激……
共同的表现力
Language points: Important lexical chunks
展示
Choose where you would most likely find the passage and give your reasons.
1) An art magazine.
2) An artist biography.
3) An online art forum.
4) A poster for an art festival.
Intensive reading: Find detailed information
Guidance for your choice
A magazine is a large thin book with a paper cover
that contains news stories, articles, photographs, etc,
and is sold weekly or monthly.
A biography is a book concerning someone’s life,
written by someone else.
A forum is focused on many people’s discussion or
debate on a certain issue.
A poster is a large printed notice, picture, or photograph,
used to advertise something or as a decoration.
Intensive reading: Guidance for your choice
“During the walk and my stay here in the town, I saw the fish being fed by people. …”
“There is no territory in the world of music.”
“I feel very grateful for the years in Xishuangbanna, …”
Intensive reading: Find detailed information
Now work in pairs. Read the quotes from the passage and answer the questions.
1.Can you use reported speech to rewrite the quotes
During the walk and his stay there in the town, he had seen the fish being fed by people. ...
“ There is no territory in the world of music.”
He said that there was no territory in the world of music.
“ I feel very grateful for the years in Xishuangbanna, ...”
She said that she felt very grateful for the years in Xishuangbanna, ...”
When stating a truth, we do not need to change the tense.
1. inspire v 启发；给……灵感；激励
inspired adj 备受鼓舞的
inspiring adj 鼓舞人心的
inspiration n 灵感，鼓舞人心的人 / 事
Language points: Important words
inspire sb to do sth 激励某人做某事
Yang Liping
feed … with … 喂养
feed … on … 以……为食
2. feed v (fed-fed) 喂养；饲养；养活
3. various adj 不同的；各种各样的
vary v 相异，不同；变化，改变
variety n 多样性，变化；种类
a variety of 种种；各种各样的
Her trust in me has inspired me to do things that I never imagined possible.
她对我的信任激励着我去尝试本以为不可能的事。
Please don’t feed the monkeys with cucumbers.
请不要给猴子喂你们自带的食物。
出于种种原因她决定搬到乡下去。
She decided to move to the countryside for various reasons.
青蛙以昆虫为食。
Frogs feed on insects.
1. Hofman’s inspiration for Floating Fish came from Chinese folk tales passed down through generations.
霍夫曼创作《浮鱼》的灵感来自世代相传的中国民间故事。
非谓语动词
被动关系
过去分词
pass down: 传递
eg They often use folksongs to pass down their history.
see sb / sth doing sth“看见……正在做某事（或某事正在
被做）”即动作正在进行。在本句中，现在分词短语being
fed by people 作 the fish 的补语，表示“（鱼）正在被投食”。
2. During the walk and my stay here in the town, I saw the fish being fed by people.
例如：When I entered the classroom, I saw the wall being
painted。
当我走进教室的时候，我看见墙正在被粉刷。
3. Since his first opera, Nine Songs, Tan Dun has been using a combination of Chinese music and sounds from all over the world to tell stories.
has been using 是现在完成进行时；即动作从过去开始一直持续到现在，且还在进行中，并可能持续下去。
例如：It has been raining for three days in a row. When will
it stops
（已经连续下了三天的雨了，什么时候停呢？）
grateful 在此句中表示“感谢的，感激的”，
固定搭配为 feel / be grateful (to sb) for sth，意为“因……感激（某人）”。
例如：I felt very grateful to you for everything you’ve done
for me.
（我非常感谢您为我做的一切。）
4. “I feel very grateful for the years in Xishuangbanna,” says Yang.
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