英语选修六第一单元

Before startingPreparation: 1.Read key words & phrases aloud by yourself, pay attention to their pronunciation. 2.Divide into several groups ,and choose your group leader. 3.Brainstorm :What is art? Can you list some forms (形式)of art?

painting dance opera[ p r ]歌剧

paper cut sculpture music …… photography

art

Literature architecture

The Best of Manhattan’s Art GalleriesUsing language Reading ---------designed by Sarah

Lead-in1 Give you some background information about Manhattan. 2 Have you ever been to any art galleries? What can you see there?

Fast reading (aloud)1. What’s the main idea of this passage?

The passage introduces some best art galleries of Manhattan.2. Who do you think the text was written for?

Tourists and art gallery visitors.

How many art galleries are introduced in the passage? What and where are they? Five

Scanning (silent)

The Frick Collection; 5th Avenue & E.70th StreetGuggenheim Museum; 5th Avenue & 88th street Metropolitan Museum of Art; 5th Avenue & 82nd Street Museum of Modern Art; 53rd Street Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue

Match the numbers on the map with the museums.1 2

Guggenheim MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art3 Whitney Museum of American Art

4

The Frick Collection

Street5

Museum of Modern Art

Avenue

Careful reading

Henry Clay Frick

The Frick Collection 弗里克收藏馆

What can you do in this art gallery?

see…pre-twentieth century western painting explore…visit… Frick’s beautiful house the garden

Guggenheim Museum

Fill in the blanks. 5, 000 Guggenheim Museum owns _____ modern

While-listening:

paintings, sculptures and drawings. The exhibition in it is always changing _______. The largest part of the collection is post-impressionist impressionist the ___________ and ______________ section. The best way to see the paintings top is to start from the ____ floor and walk bottom down to the ______. The museum also has an excellent restaurant _________.

Listen, read (silent) and answer.1. In which museum can we find Chinese art? Metropolitan Museum of Art.

2.Where can we find the works of Van Gogh, Picasso or Matisse? Museum of Modern Art.

True or False?Metropolitan Modern Art 1. Museum ofMuseum ofArt has the greatest _________________________________ collection of art in the United States. F 2. Metropolitan Museum of Art introduces you to ancient ways of living. T 3. The admission price of Museum of Modern not cheap/expensive Art is very cheap and it is often crowded. F ______________ 4. Metropolitan Museum of Art covers more than 5000 years of civilization from many parts of the world including China. T

Read the whole passage (aloud) again and complete the chart.name address 945 Madison Avenue (near 75th St.) Which centuries? What countries?

Whitney Museum of American Art

Contemporar y (mainly art by living America artists) late 19th century to the 21st century Western countries

Museum of 53th St. Modern (betwee

n 5th Art and 6th Avenues)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

5th Avenue & 82nd Street

From ancient to modern times

all over the world

Guggenheim Modern Museum 5th Avenue & (from late 88th Street 19th century onwards)

Western countries

The Frick Collection

5th and Madison Avenues

pretwentieth century

Western countries

presentation You have only one day to visit art galleries in New York .Discuss in your group and decide together which galleries you prefer and why. Use the structure in P7(3).Then share it with us!