1.Classical (a) refers to the Middle Ages

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Transcript 1.Classical (a) refers to the Middle Ages

高二英语
张晓锋
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Learning Aims:
1.To know about the background of
Renaissance and the achievements
during this time and the
representatives in many fields .
2.To understand some difficult
sentences in the text.
3.To improve the reading ability
The Mona Lisa
Renaissance
The Mona Lisa
1.Classical
(a) refers to the Middle Ages (from about
1100 to 1500)
2.Medieval
(b) refers to the period which followed
the Middle Ages
3.Gothic
(c) refer to ancient Greece and Rome
4. Renaissance
(d) refers to a typical style of art and
architecture in the Middle Ages
Read the passage fast and match the main idea with
each paragraph: (5’)
Para 1
The origin of the word --- Renaissance
Para 2
The time and the birth place of the Renaissance
Para 3
A new type of philosophy
Para 4
A time of scientific invention
Para 5
Trade made the Renaissance possible
Para 6
The discovery of the new ideas
Para 7
A genius --- Leonardo
Task : True or False
1.The Mona Lisa is a mysterious masterpiece .
2. It was as if Europe wasn’t
was waking up after
the long sleep of the Middle Ages .
3. Renaissance artists found new
old ideas for
their work in classical Greece and Rome .
4. The Renaissance was a time of scientific
invention , too .
5. For the first time, they put religion
people at the
centre of the universe.
Read Paras 1--3 carefully and fill in the blanks with
the information in the text.
The Renaissance
Time
Birthplace
Origin of the
word
Factors that
made the
Renaissance
possible
14th to 16th century
During the 1. ____________
Italy
2.________
Renaissance is a French word which
rebirth
means 3. “_______”.
discovery of the new world
4. the
__________________________
__________________________
international
business
Read Paras 4—5 carefully and fill in the blanks with
the information in the text.
Painters discovered how to
perspective and the
use 5. ___________
effects of light.
Composers put different
Arts
voices together and created
polyphony
6. ___________.
Achievements
Architects preferred
designing buildings with 7.
more light
_____________.
people as the center
Philosophy 8. Put________
of the universe.
Scientific
invention
a time of scientific invention
Read Para6-7 and describe Leonardo da
Vince:
His masterpiece is ________Besides
being a
Mona lisa
famous__________,Leonardo
da Vince was
painter
inventor who was well-known
also a skilled________,
drawingsof aeroplanes,
for his astonishing
________ ________
tanks
submarines
parachutes,_____and
__________
Sentences:
1. It is believed to be the best example of a new
lifelike style of painting that amazed people when
it was first used.
蒙娜丽莎被认为是一种新的形象逼真型绘
画的最好代表,这种绘画风格一经使用就
使人们惊叹不已。
第二个it 指的是 (the style)
2. But they looked forward, too, by opening
new frontiers in the arts.
而他们也通过开辟新的艺术领域来展望未来。
3. The sense of exploration which motivated
the artists went hand in hand with a new
type of philosophy.
这种激发艺术家的探索意识与 一种新型的
人生哲学携手共进。
4. Wherever he went he carried a notebook
around with him, in which he wrote down
his ideas.
不管走到哪里他都随身携带一个笔记本,
以便随时记录下自己的想法.
5. After centuries of accepting a medieval
world view in which human life was
considered of little Value compared with
the greatness of God, philosopher began
asking questions like......
几个世纪以来,哲学家们都持有中世纪的世界观,
认为与上帝的伟大相比人的生命很渺小。现在他们提出
诸如“人为何物?” 以及“我为何存在?” 这样的问题。
6. But even if his only contribution to history
had been the Mona Lisa, it would have been
genius enough for all time.
但即使他对历史的贡献仅仅是一副《蒙娜·丽莎》,
这也已经是恒久的天才作品。
Finish the following exercises
Which sentence in the text can be replaced by the
following one?
Trade with other continents made the Europeans
rich, therefore they could afford the arts.
Trade with other parts of the world mean that
Europe was getting richer, too . This meant that
people had money to spend on the arts.
Leonardo da Vinci was like a man
who awoke too early in the
darkness, while the others were all
still asleep” ----Sigmund Freud
Leonardo da Vinci is a man well
beyond his time. He was a
renaissance painter, architect,
engineer, mathematician and
philosopher, a genius the world
has never seen again so far.
Write a passage about
Leonardo da Vinci
Thanks a lot!