Reading
北京十八中 杨芳
Type of lesson: Reading---Modern Architecture
Teaching Aims:
1. To train the Ss’ reading abilities.
2. To enrich the Ss’ vocabulary on art and architecture.
3. To enable the Ss to get some information about art and architecture and can talk about it .
Key point:
To understand the reading passage and talk about it..
Teaching aids: Computer and tape recorder.
Teaching procedures:
Step I. Pre-reading
1. Ask the Ss some questions with the pictures on the textbook:
Q1: What do these buildings look like?
Q2: What do they have in common?
2. Show the Ss some building pictures.（幻灯片3）
Q1: Are these buildings different in stylematerial…? (Yes..)
Q2: Can you divide them into two kinds? (Modern and traditional.)
Q3: Can you tell the differences between them?
Step II. Reading
1. Scanning
Q1: What is Modernism?
Q2: What are the names of the architects mentioned in the text?
2. Reading for details
Comparing ancient architecture with modern architecture.
(见下页表格).
style Material Feeling Examples
Ancient architecture
Like things we find in nature. Nature does not have any straight lines. Earth, stone, brick, wood and bamboo Natural and beautiful Tailhe Dian
…
Modern architecture Like things we find in nature.
Tradinational materials
Warm and friendly
Gaudi
The 2008 Olympic Stadium
Huge, like boxes with flat roofs, sharp
corners and glass walls. Steel, glass, concrete, alnico and plastic
Hard and unfriendly
The Twin Tower
3. Working in pairs and dealing with the difficult sentences.
1). Architect looks at the man-made living environment.
They refused to look at my suggestion.
look at : pay attention to
建筑学做关注的是人造的生活环境。
2). Modernism was invented in the 1920s by a group of architects who wanted to change society with buildings that went against people’s feeling of beauty.
Q1: Who invented the modernism?
Q2: How do they want to change society?
现代主义是20世纪20年代一群建筑师们创立的，他们想用背离人们审美标准的建筑来改变社会。
3). Frank Lloyd Wright, who built an art museum in New York, found himself inspired by Japanese seashells.
Q: What inspired Frank to build the art museum?
弗兰克设计了纽约的艺术博物馆，是日本的海贝壳激发了他的灵感。
4. Reading the text carefully and analyzing the structure of the text and the main idea. (Let Ss express their opinions .Then the teacher can give them some help.)
Part 1(Para.1): Every great culture in the past had its own ideas expressed in art
and architecture.
Part 2 (Para. 2): How and when modernism came into being.
Part 3 (Para.3---5): The differences between traditional architecture and modern
architecture and some examples of ancient architecture.
Part 4 (Para 6---8) : Examples of famous architects and great buildings that take examples from nature.
Step III. Post-reading
.Ss guessing the names of the architects who designed the buildings on the pictures and telling the reasons with the information provided in the text.(幻灯片10，11)
Step IV. Homework
Describe the 2008 Olympic Games Stadium and your feeling about the design of it.
Design the 2008 Olympic Games Stadium as you wish.