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Unit 7 Art
Lesson 1 Masterpieces
Reading 第一课时
1.white and yellow circles 2.an amazing sky 3.a thin figure 4.a lonely tree 5.a sleeping village 6.a dark stormy sea
7.a house lit by lights from inside
Use the phrases to describe what you see in the paintings.
The Starry Night
Read the descriptions and underline the name of each painting and its artist.
Vincent Van Gogh
Wheatfield with Crows
有乌鸦的麦田
Sunflowers
The Starry Night
Edvard Munch
Read the descriptions and underline the name of each painting and its artist.
The Scream
The Scream
the expression of fear
The Empire of Light
Read the descriptions and underline the name of each painting and its artist.
Rene Magritte
The Lovers
The False Mirror
假镜
It’s not a pipe
1. What does the painting show
2. Why did Van Gogh paint the yellow spots
3. What did Van Gogh think of The Starry Night
Read The Starry Night and answer:
Introduce the painting The Starry Night
Activity 6
After reading the descriptions, do you like or dislike them more Give your reasons.
Vocabulary Help
artistic beauty
originality
emotional
atmosphere
colour scheme
dramatic
contrast
highlights
the painting makes me feel uneasy/inspired,
dark and troubling
failure
powerful
Activity 7
Group Work: Introduce the paintings.
Suppose you are a volunteer at an art exhibition. Introduce one of the three paintings to the visitors.
Activity 8
Noun clauses, subject clauses, object clauses, and predicative clauses.
A noun clause is a dependent clause that acts as a noun. Noun clauses can act as subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nominatives, or objects of a preposition.
Example:
1. Whichever restaurant you pick is fine with me.
2. Do you know what the weather will be like
3. Be sure to send whoever interviewed you a thank-you note.
4. The focus of our work is how we can satisfy customers most effectively.
5. It’s important to think about why we make certain decisions.
subject—a subject clause
direct object—an object clause
indirect object—an object clause
a predicate nominative—an predicative clause
an object of a preposition—an object clause
Pair Work: Read the sentences. Answer the questions.
1 Van Gogh painted what he saw from his window.
2 What makes it striking is that it shows a thin figure with an expression of fear.
3 What is strange is that above the house and the tree, we see a daytime sky full of brightness and soft white clouds.
4 Some feel that the paintings look dark and troubling.
Which sentence is an example of:
a a subject clause, or a noun clause that acts as the subject of the sentence
b an object clause, or a noun clause that acts as the object of the sentence
c a predicative clause, or a noun clause that acts as the predicative of the sentence
b
a
c
a
c
b
Activity 9
Combine the two expressions using a subject clause, an object clause or a predicative clause.
1 Magritte painted in this way
The reason was that he wanted to challenge how people see the world
2 Looking at the painting, we don’t know
It is night or day
3 The fact remains
Munch’s The Scream is one of the best-known paintings ever made
4 It is unclear
Van Gogh wanted to paint yellow spots or that was what he really saw
The reason why Magritte painted in this way was that he wanted to challenge how people see the world.
Looking at the painting, we don’t know whether it is night or day.
The fact remains that Munch’s The Scream is one of the best-known paintings ever made.
It is unclear whether Van Gogh wanted to paint yellow spots or that was what he really saw.
Activity 10
Group Work Read the quotes. Discuss the features of good paintings.
A man paints with his brain and not with his hands.
— Michelangelo, an Italian painter
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
— Plutarch, an ancient Greek writer
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted but not explained.
— Maurice de Vlaminck, a French painter
Thank You

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