外研版高中英语book2 module 4 cultural corner

高一外研版必修二

Module 4 Fine Arts - Western, Chinese and Pop artsCultural Corner & Task

Cultural Corner

Cultural corner – 1. Warming up 1-Tell what you have known.

What do you know about Pablo Picasso and his paintings?

Cultural corner – 1. Warming up-2 Read the text and answer the following questions

What have we learnt about in readingand vocabulary and what are we going

to learn in Cultral Corner:1. Picasso’s blue period

2. Picasso’s pink period3. Picasso and Cubism

Cultural corner – 2. Fast Reading Read the text and guess in which period were the following pictures painted.

Blue period

pink period

Cultural corner – 3. Careful Reading 1Read the text and write down the facts about Picasso according to the time clues he was born in Spain. 1. In 1881 _________________________ 2. At the age of ten__________________ he was already an

_______________. excellent artist3. At the age of 16 ___________________ his first exhibition.

4. In his early twenties_____________ moved to France

Picasso’s blue period 5. From1902 to 1904_______________Picasso’s pink period 6. From1904 to1906________________ 7. In1937_________________________ his greatest Cubist painting

_________________________. GUERNICA was painted8. in1973_________________________ he died.

Cultural corner – 3. Careful Reading 2-Read the text and fill in blanks.Name Country Period Works and Works’ Style showed poor, blue Picasso Spain period unhappy people painted much pink period happier pictures Guernica, showed In 1937 his feelings about what had happened to the town

Language Points

1. Picasso studied art in Spain, but moved to France, in his early twenties. 年龄表示法 (1). 表示某人几岁的确切年龄，用“基数词 +years old”或“基数词+of age”或者“at the age of+基数词”,也可直接用基数词。 如：孩子们通常7岁开始上学。 Children usually start school at (the age of) seven. 她70岁了。 She’s thirty years old.= She’s thirty years of age.

(2). 表示某人几十多岁这样的大约年龄，用“in one’s+基数词的复数(如tens, twenties,

thirties 等)”来表达。如：他30多岁时去了美国。

He went to America in his thirties.他在五十岁出头、接近六十岁时开始有规

律的进行体育锻炼。He started to take regular exercise in his

early/ late fifties.

(3). 表示年代 表示在某个世纪的几十年代，用“in the + 基数词的复数”。基数词的复数若用阿拉 伯数字表示，可直接加 s,也可加’s。如 “在20世纪80年代” 是 in the 1980’s或 in the 1980s,读作 in the nineteen eighties。注 意：不要漏掉 the。 这条铁路建于20世纪70年代。 The railway was built in the 1970s.

2. From 1902 to 1904 he painted a series of pictures where the main color was blue.

a series of 一系列，一连串如：厂方的态度可能会引起一系列的罢工。

The management’

s attitude may spark off aseries of strikes.

宇航员在太空期间将进行一系列的实验。Astronauts will carry out a series of tests

while they are in space.

3. People agreed that Picasso’s greatest Cubist painting is Guernica, which was painted in Madrid in 1937. agree vt. & vi. (1) 单独使用，表示同意、答应等。 ① 如：我请求他帮忙，他答应了。 I asked him to help me and he agreed. ② 经过了短暂的讨论，这项计划大家都同意 了。 After a short time of discussion, the program was agreed.

(2) 跟介词with连用. 表示“同意；赞成”; “与 一致；(气候，食物) 适合”。 例如：

① 我很同意你说的。I quite agree with what you said.

② 我不太同意他所说的话。I don’t quite agree with what he said.