1. 2. famous artist & his masterpiece mentioned in the film?
Lead-in
Watch the video and answer the questions.
1. the name of the film
2. famous artist & his masterpiece mentioned in the film?
The Davinci Code
Mona Lisa / the Last Supper

2. Reading
Visiting the masters

3. Fast reading 1.How many famous artists are mentioned in the email?
Who are they?
five
2. How many museums are mentioned?
What are they? And where are they?
five
a museum in Spain
Louvre Museum
Musee d’Orsay
Van Gogh Museum
Museum in Amsterdam
Spain
Paris, France
Holland
the Netherlands

4. Spain (Malaga)
France (Paris)
Holland (Amsterdam)

5. An ______ from ________ to his friend
about his ____to some famous ___________
in ___________.And it tells us some masters’ life stories.
Li Ming
art museums
visit
Europe

6. Reading strategy: Life story ( biography)
in the order that things happened
begin :
discuss:
talk about:
compare:
mention:
date & place of birth
childhood/ education/ early influences
famous works/ the style of works
compare them to other famous people
date of death
what people thought about their work

7. Malaga, Spain
Nationality:
Spanish
Pieces of art:
more than 20,000
painter, sculptor,
photographer
Jobs:
Pablo Picasso
Famous painting:
self-portrait
Style of painting:
cubism
a type of art where things
are represented as geometric
shapes(几何形状)

8. Leonardo da Vinci Nationality: Italian Mona Lisa( ) 1503-1506
his masterpiece
Nationality:
Italian
Mona Lisa( )
painter, sculptor
engineer ,scientist
Jobs:
a lady with dark
hair and a
mysterious smile

9. hundreds of lotus plants floated on the surface of a pond Claude Monet
love to paint
lotus flowers
hundreds of lotus plants
floated on the surface of a pond
Claude Monet
(French)
It feels peaceful
to live there
( )

10. Number of his art works: 800 oil paintings and 1,600 drawings Van Gogh
Amsterdam, Holland
Nationality:
Dutch
Number of his art works:
800 oil paintings and
1,600 drawings
Van
Gogh
Type of art:
impressionism;
abstract artwork
paintings of himself (36)
His masterpieces:
Starry Night
(1889)
Sunflowers
The Potato Eaters(1885)

11. Language points His sad life
devote his whole life to… sell one painting
distribute…to….
unable to negotiate a successful sale

12. Rembrandt
Nationality:
Dutch
Time of birth and death:
( )
His masterpieces:
The Night Watchman (1642)

14. Pablo Picasso
Self-portrait

16. Van Gogh
Starry Night
Sun-
flowers

17. The Night Watchman  
Rembrandt

18. Discussion
Do you like art?
Do you think art
is important to us?
Why?

19. Thank you!

20. The Louvre
Museum
The Musee
d’Orsay
__ _______ _____ the works of da Vinci, it has
more than _________ other European paintings,
which ___ ______ the 13th______the 19th
_______. We can’t find any _______________ in it.
If you want to see the modern painting, you will
have to go to another museum ____ Musee d’ Orsay.
In addition to
6,000
rang from to
century
modern
paintings
called