山东烟台二中 赵娟

Show pictures of Munch, the famous artist, and then ask one student to explain a bit about him in English. Add some details about the artist and his significance.

 

   Key: The Scream by Edvard Munch has become the most expensive artwork ever to be sold at auction.

大连开发区八中 程国良

Have the students look at the following picture and describe the café wall.

1. Are the lines in Picture 1 straight or curved?

2. Look at the black dot in picture 2 and move your head forwards and backwards. What happens to the two circles?

 Picture 1     Picture 2

Picture 1: The café wall illusion: the horizontal lines are parallel, despite appearing to be at different angles to each other

Picture 2: An optical illusion. The two circles seem to move when the viewer's head is moving forwards and backwards while looking at the black dot.

Look through the article and answer the following questions.

3.       What does FMRI stand for?

Have the students read the article carefully and choose the best answer.

1.       ____ often make us think there is something wrong with our eyes.

A. Things      B. Optical illusions     C. moving objects

2. The main cause of illusions is wrong interpretation by _____.

3. The illusory motion percept comes from _____.

B. real physical movement in the visual cortex of the brain

C. both imagination and the real physical movement in the visual cortex

4. From the article we can infer that optical illusions can be used ____.

Translate the following with proper expressions from the article.

1. 出问题时要保持冷静的头脑。

2. 开车决不会比步行好。

3. 你学的词汇越多，阅读就越容易。

4. 如果我们想准时到达那里，我们最好加快速度。

5. 转弯前，你得先减速。

6. 我们必须以现代的观点来解释他的话。

 

2. We often “see” things that aren’t real. An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality.

3. FMRI stands for functional magnetic resonance imaging.

BACB

1. Keep a cool head when thing go wrong.

2. There is no way that driving is better than walking.

3. The more vocabulary you have learned, the easier reading will be.

4. We'd better speed up if we want to get there in time.

5. Before turning, you should slow down.

6. We have to interpret his words in a modern light.

大连开发区八中 程国良

Ask the students to talk about their relationship with their parents.

How much time do you usually spend with your parents every day?

What do you usually talk about together?

How do you feel when you are with your parents?

Read the first five paragraphs and decide whether the following is True or False.

1.       Both the writer and her mother like to collect quotations.

2.       The mother doesn’t like to copy her quotations.

3.       The writer likes to cut out quotations from printed matter.

4.       The writer and her mother communicate well with each other.

5.       The mother doesn’t know her daughter collects quotations.

6.       The writer doesn’t understand her mother well.

 

Read the second part of the article and choose the best answer.

1.       Why did the writer email the poem to her mother?

A.     She thought the poem was worth collecting.

B.      She wanted to express her love for her mother.

2.What does the poem show us?

B. Parents show their love by saying nothing at all.

Match the following with a word or phrase from the article

1. delete or remove                           ________

2. make full; fill                              ________

3. put up with something or somebody unpleasant   _________

4. stay the same                              _________

5. devoted to a cause or ideal or purpose           _________

6. move forward or upward in order to touch       _______

 

1. I would rather ____ poor than get money by dishonest means.

2. There was no time for me to ____ my gun.

3. This book is ____ to my teacher.

4. You can ____ the unimportant details.

5. It's boiling hot today! I can hardly ____ it.

6. You can ____ your bottle of water at the tap.

 

1.       T 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. T 6. T

1. cut out 2. fill up 3. stand 4. remain 5. dedicated 6. reach for

1. remain 2. reach for 3. dedicated 4. cut out 5. stand 6. fill up