1. Unit 1 Art Using Language THE BEST OF MANHATTAN’S ART GALLERIES

2. Task 1
Warming ups

3. The Frick Collection弗里克收藏馆
Henry Clay Frick
The Frick Collection弗里克收藏馆

4. Home of Frick

5. Guggenheim Museum
古根海姆博物馆

6. Metropolitan Museum Of Art
大都会博物馆

7. Museum of Modern Art 现代艺术博物馆

8. Whitney Museum of American Art
惠特尼美国艺术博物馆

9. Task 2
Scanning

10. Match the number on the map with the names of the museums.
Scan the text and locate them out on the map
Match the number on the map with the names of the museums.

11. 2 3 4 5 1 Number on map Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art
Comprehension 1
Number on map
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Frick Collection
Museum of Modern Art
Guggenheim Museum 2 3 4 5 1

12. Task 3
Scanning

13. Make an information card
Task 3
Make an information card
about the 5 museums.
Use 2 to 3 sentences to describe
each museum.

14. Which centuries? What countries?
Comprehension
Name Address
Type of Art
Which centuries? What countries?
America
Whitney museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue (near 75th St.)
Contemporary (mainly art by living artists)
Museum of
Modern Art
53rd Street (between 5th and 6th Avenue)
Late 19th century to the 21st century
Western countries
From Ancient to
modern times
Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Avenue and 82ndStreet
All over the world
Guggenheim western
Museum countries
Modern (from late 19th century onwards)
5th Avenue and 88th Street
The Frick western
Collection countries
5th and Madison Avenue
Before the 20th century

15. Task 4: Listening
Number the galleries in the order that you hear about them.
The First Collection
Guggenhein Museum
Metropolitan Museum
Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art

16. Number the galleries in the order that you hear about them.
Metropolitan Museum
The First Collection
Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
Guggenhein Museum

17. Listen again and then answer the questions:
1. Who first suggested they visit art gallery?
2. Who is the least interested in visiting art
galleries?
3. Who is Gao Yan interested in visiting the
Metropolitan Museum?
4. Does Susuan prefer larger or small
5. Why doesn’t Susan want to go to the
Mueum of Modern Art?
6. What kind of art does Susan dislike?
7. Which two galleries do they decide to visit
on Friday and which two galleries on
Saturday?

18. Key for Listening 1. Johnson. 2. Susan.
3. Gao Yan wants to see the exhibition of Chinese art.
4. Small galleries.
5. It is big, crowded and too expensive.
6. Modern art.
7. On Friday, they decide to visit the Frick collection and the Metropolitan Museum. On Saturday, they decide to visit the Whitney Museum and the Guggenheim Museum.

19. Task 5 Talking about preference
Useful expressions:
I’d like….
Which would you prefer…?
I’d prefer…
Would you rather…?
I’d rather…
Would you like… or…?
Suppose you have only one day in New York, which museum will you choose?