邵 华

邯 郸

第一中学

龙泉寺

土门关

Skimming

Task I:

Skim the subtitles and find out the museums we are going to visit.

Tip: The title and subtitles contain the most important information of the article.

The Frick Collection

Guggenheim Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum of Modern Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

Task two:

Point out the 5 museums on the map according to the address information in the passage.

Museum of Modern Art

It is amazing that so many great works of art from the late_____century to the ___ century are housed in the same museum.The collection of Western art ________paintings by such famous artists as Monet, Van Gogh, and Picasso and Matisse. A few words of warning:the admission price is not_______and the museum is often very ________.

19th 21st

includes

cheap

crowded

Sunrise Monet

Sunflower Van Gogh

Dream Picasso

Woman with a Hat Matisse

The Frick CollectionHow did the art gallery come into being?

Frick died in 1919, leaving his house, furniture and art collection to the American people.

Whitney Museum of American Art

Listen and tick what you can enjoy here.

A. paintings

B. sculptures

C. videos

D. films

Metropolitan Museum of Art

This covers more than 3000 years of civilization from many parts of the world.

It introduces you to modern ways of living.

5000

ancient

Guggenheim Museum

size 5,000 _______ modern works

collections

_________, ________ and _____________

building a _______, white seashell;

a _______ path

superb

paintings sculpturesdrawings

fragile

circular

Group competition1. 必答题

10 points for each correct answer

2. 抢答题

10 points for each correct answer

3. 表演部分

10 points for each performance

Tips:

Some visitors want to visit the museums but they know nothing about the museums.

Discuss with your partner and try to give them some advice.

1. Smith wants to visit an Egyptian

temple and prefers living artists’

exhibition.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

2.Anna studies Art in college. She wants

to learn about Impressionism.

Guggenheim Museum

3.Wanglin admires Van Gogh very much. He also wants to experience French culture.

Museum of Modern Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

4. Bob likes films best and wants to have a meal in some museum.

Whitney Museum of American Art

Guggenheim Museum

5. David wants to write a passage about Henry Clay Frick. He wishes to have a look at Chinese culture.

The Frick Collection

Museum of Modern Art

MU

SE

UM

You can get 10 points without answering any question.

Where might you see such a passage?

A. A history book

B. A science book

C. A music book

D. A guide book

Who do you think the text was written for?

A.tourists and art gallery visitors

B. European journalists

C. language learners

D. magazine collectors

Decide whether it is true or false. If it is false ,correct it.

Frick had a preference for twentieth Western paintings.

pre-twentieth

In which museum can we find Chinese art?

A.The Frick Collection

B. Guggenheim Museum

C. Museum of Modern Art

D. Metropolitan Museum of Art

Name Which

centuries?

What

Countries?

Museum of Modern Art

Western art

The Frick

Collection

pre-twentieth

century

from late 19th to the 21st

Western paintings

Performance Group 1: The Frick Collection

Group 2: Guggenheim Museum

Group 3: Metropolitan Museum

Group 4: Museum of Modern Art

Group 5: Whitney Museum of American Art

Make up a dialogue, according to the description.

Where is the museum?

Can you say something about its collections?

What impresses you most?

Why do you think this museum is different from others?

Museums and Memory

5 . 18

Museum Day

韩信

西汉初年军事家 开国功臣

Summary

Group 1: The Frick Collection

Group 2: Guggenheim Museum

Group 3: Metropolitan Museum

Group 4: Museum of Modern Art

Group 5: Whitney Museum of American Art

Homework:1.Compulsory work

Find out the language points in the passage.

2.Optional work

Introduce one of the museums.