2017-2018学年度第11期总第730期

Creating a new world of painting (P4)

山东省烟台第二中学 赵娜娜

 

Lead-in

Can you guess what this painting is about? 

      show all the angles of a guitar             show one angle of a guitar

 

 

Analytic cubism 解析立体主义

three-dimensional illusion

* Breaking up & recombining   

* Showing different sides of an object or person at the same time

 

Masterpieces

The girls of Avignon 亚威农少女  

 

 

Guernica 格尔尼卡 (A town that was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War)

 

 

Background

The world was changing

New political movements like socialism were on the rise.

 

Influence

Picasso's influence was and remains immense and widely acknowledged by his admirers and detractors alike. In 1998, Robert Hughes wrote of him: "To say that Pablo Picasso dominated Western art in the 20th century is, by now, the merest commonplace...no painter or sculptor, not even Michelangelo, had been as famous as this in his own lifetime...

 

While-reading 

Fast reading

Read the article and answer the question:

What’s the main idea of the passage?

The passage focuses on the theory and background of Picasso’s analytic cubism.

 

Read the text carefully and answer the following questions.

1.What were paintings before Braque and Picasso like? 

Before Braque and Picasso, paintings were like windows – they were painted to look as if they had_____. You could tell which ____were “close” to you and which objects were “far away”, as if the picture were ________ you were looking through. 

2.What was Picasso and Braque’s new idea? 

To them, a painting wasn’t a window to the world; it was ___________on a________. Why, they thought, should an object like a guitar be shown only from one ____(角度)?

 

3. Why do people say “Picasso was like Einstein wearing a painter’s smock”? 

Science was turning people’s ideas upside down. German-born physicist Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity was proving that what we knew about time and space was wrong. And Picasso was turning the artistic world upside down.

Understanding-sentences

Analyze the following sentences and pay attention to the words in bold/red.

1. You could tell which objects were “close” to you and which objects were “far away”, as if the picture were a window you were looking through.

as if …had done (unreal past)

         …did/ were (unreal present)

         …would do (unreal future)

He looked at me as if I were mad.

他看着我，仿佛我疯了似的。 

 

2. A guitar can look very different depending on which angle one looks at it from.

= from which angle one looks at it

 

3. It was an analytical approach to art that gave this style of painting its name: analytic cubism 

Approach n. way, method

                 v. be close to; deal with

4. New political movements like socialism were on the rise.

•反义词组：on the decline/in decline

•The widely held belief that educational standards are in decline/ on the decline.

5. Picasso couldn’t have painted it without the skills he learned during his cubist period.

= Picasso couldn’t have painted it if there hadn’t been the skills he learned during his cubist period.

e.g. I wouldn’t have passed the exam without your help.

= I wouldn’t have passed the exam if you hadn’t helped me.

 

Post-reading 

Retell the passage following these key concepts.

Picasso and cubism

The background 

His masterpiece Guernica 

Homework

According to what you have learned, do some research and write a composition introducing Picasso and one of his other works.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hugging for health (P6)

华中师大一附中朝阳学校  李萍

I. Warming up   

 

 

II. Free talk

Do you often receive hugs?

When do you usually receive a hug?

Who do you usually receive hugs from?

How do you feel when you receive a hug?

How does hugging benefit us?

 

III. Fast reading

From the title " Hugging for health", what can you guess?

Read the text and:

1. Check whether your prediction is right or not.

2. Summarize the main idea of the text.

The text introduces a study which showed that receiving a hug can reduce stress and help protect us from illness.

 

IV. Careful reading

Read the text carefully and draw a mind map about how hugging influences our health.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hugging for health

 

 

IV. Further understanding

1. What does US psychologist Tiffany Field mean by saying “the quality of the hug counts, too”?

Hugging can be good for our health if we hug sincerely.

2. Do you agree with the result of the research? Why or why not?

 

V. Language study

1.We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. 

我们需要一天四次拥抱来维持生存，八次拥抱来维护身心健康。

survival: the state of continuing to live or exist, often despite difficulty or danger; 生存，存活，幸存

e.g. His only chance of survival was an operation.

survive V. 生存，存活

maintenance: the act of making a state or situation continue 维持，维护

maintain V. 维持，维护

 

2. According to the research, people who received hugs on the same days when they experienced conflicts tended to report fewer negative feelings during the following days.

据该研究报道，那些在发生冲突的当天得到拥抱的人，在接下来的几天里，就很少产生消极情绪。

该句中有两个定语从句，第一个从句who received hugs on the same days, 修饰先行词people, 第二个定语从句when they experienced conflicts, 修饰先行词days.

 

3. The physical contact that we get through hugging, especially loved ones, is a “marker of intimacy and helps generate the feeling that others are there to help in the face of adversity.”

拥抱时产生的身体接触，尤其是和我们爱的人，是“亲密的标志，它让我们知道在困境中时有人会帮助我们。 ”