本堂微课为精读课，首先通过一些生活中常见的雕塑，绘画，舞蹈，剪纸，陶艺等引出艺术这一话题，艺术让我们的生活丰富多彩，这堂课我们重点了解绘画这一板块，通过向同学们展示中外名画，中外著名画家，及对比中外画作区别，让学生对话题有足够了解，并唤起学生对西方绘画的兴趣，从而引出我们主题——西方绘画简史。紧接着对文章进行快速阅读及精读，通过略读、寻读等阅读技能训练学生的阅读能力，读后通过识别各类画作风格巩固学生学习知识，最后通过相互讨论各自喜欢的画作及说明原因练习学生如何用英语表达个人喜好，同时检查对所学知识的运用能力。
Teaching goals： 1.To enable the students to have a knowledge of the short history of western painting. 2.To improve the students’ reading ability. 3.To help the students enjoy themselves from the experience of artistic pursuit and also improve their artistic accomplishment. Teaching important & difficult points Enable the students to talk about the short history of Western painting Teaching methods Task-based teaching; individual, pair or group work; discussion Teaching aids A computer, a tape recorder, a projecto and a blackboard. Teaching procedures & ways Step I Lead-in To lead in the topic by mentioning the sculptures or paintings around the students, such as the seal cutting on the campus, famous paintings hanging on the walls of the corridor of the school building, etc. Ask Ss to figure out their functions and the general term to call them—the works of art Step II Warming-up Show some famous paintings and ask: 1. Do you know the following famous paintings and painters? Mona Lisa Smile → Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519) Sunflowers & starry night → Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890) Water Lilies → Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926) Dream & Seated woman → Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) 2. Comparison: Make a comparison of Western and Chinese painting and ask: Which do you think has a greater change? Why? 3.Ask: Can you tell the ages of the above western paintings? Say : Today we’ll learn about the short history of western painting. Step III Reading Fast reading 1. Skimming Skim the text and answer the following question(3mins). 1. What does the text mainly tell us? A. How religious painting developed. B. How oil painting developed. C. How impressionist painting developed. D. How Western art developed. 2.How is the passage organized? Answer: In the order of time. 3. How many styles of Western painting are mentioned in the text? What are they？ Answer: Four. They are The Middle Ages, The Renaissances, Impressionism and Modern Art. 2.Scanning Scan the text and answer the following question(4 mins). 1 . which of the following statements is TRUE? A. Paintings in middle ages were very realistic. B. Western art has changed a lot since the 5th century. C. Impressionist paintings were painted mainly indoors . D. Modern art began in the Renaissance. 2. At first most people hated the impressionists’ style of painting , because_____ A.their paintings were very abstract B. their paintings were very realistic C. they broke away from the traditional style of painting D. their paintings were very ridiculous 3. During the renaissance, painters_____ A.painted religious scenes in a more realistic style B. focused more on religion than on humans C. began to paint outdoors D.returned to classical roman and greek ideas about art 3.Careful reading Read the text carefully and finish the table below ( 7mins). Period Time Characteristics of the paintings Artist Middle Ages Renais- sance Impress- ionism Modern Art StepIV. Post-reading 【10mins】 1.Complete the following passage according to the text. Styles of Western art 1.__________ many times, and art is influenced 2._____ the customs and faith of a people. During the Middle Ages, the main aim of painters was 3.___________ (represent) religious themes. Artists were interested in creating respect and love for God. In the Renaissance, people focused more on humans and nature 4. they really were. Masaccio used perspective in his paintings 5. ________ made people 6._______ (convince) that they were looking through a hole in the wall 7.________ a real scene. In the late 19th century, Europe changed a great deal from a mostly agricultural society to a mostly industrial 8.______ .The impressionists were the first to paint outdoors. They had to paint quickly and their paintings were not as detailed as 9._________ of earlier painters. Today people accepted impressionists paintings as the beginning of modern art. Some modern art is abstract 10.______some is realistic. 2.Tell which period the following pictures belong to. StepV. Discussion(5mins) Suppose you could have one of the four paintings above on the walls of your classroom, which one would you choose? Have a disscusion and show your reasons. Step VI. Assignment 1.Write a summary.（Do not include your own opinion, but be sure to use our own words）(about 30words.) 2.Write down three new things you have learned about western art.
