Different people have different tastes(??).

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Lead in
Which kind of Chinese art do you like?
Different people have different tastes(??).
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Lesson 1 A Matter of Taste
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Objectives

• At the end of the class, you will be able to
• Know some information about Xu Beihong,
• Qi Baishi and Chen Yifei.
• Know the characteristics of Racing Horse,
  Cabbage, and Poppy.
• Describe a painting.

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Look at the three Chinese paintings. Do you know
the names and the painters of the paintings?
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Warm-up

• Match the paintings with the names and the
  painters.

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Find the words in the text with the definitions.
Paragraph 1

1. something that people have done for a long time
   and continue to do
2. to help the progress of something
3. having a lot of new ideas
4. collection of things shown publicly

tradition
promote
creative
exhibition
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Paragraph 2
5. people who watch or listen to a performance 6.
ability to form new ideas and to make pictures in
ones mind 7.living being, esp. an animal
audience
imagination
creature
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Paragraph 3
7.worth a lot of money 8. a way of doing
something 9. small, particular fact or item 10.
to say strongly that something is important
valuable
style
detail
emphasise
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Careful-reading(1)

• Read the text carefully and introduce the
  painters.

This is Xu Beihong(1895-1953).
He was important in ___________________.
modern Chinese folk art
He developed the tradition of ___________________
________. He ________________________.
combining poetry with painting
He held several exhibitions to promote Chinese
art.
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Careful-reading(1)
Read the text carefully and introduce the
painters.
This is Qi Baishi (1863-1957).
He was one of ___________________.
Chinas greatest painters
During his early youth, he worked with _____.
Between 1902 and 1909, he travelled
across _________ and painted many pictures of
_____. Later, his interest changed to
____________ _______________. His
_______________________.
wood
the country
scenery
style of painting often leaves the audience
guessing and makes them use their imagination.

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Careful-reading(1)
Read the text carefully and introduce the
painters.

• He was a ____________________.
• His______________________________
• are very valuable.
• He___________________.

This is Chen Yifei(1946-2005).
very successful artist
soft portraits of beautiful women
He is good at drawing beautiful women.
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Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks.
Careful-reading(2)
Famous paintings
Xu Beihong
Qi Baishi
Chen Yifei
Characteristics of the paintings
painters
running
It is a ________ horse. __________is used to
show the moving hair on its mane and tail.
Different shades of grey are used to show
the_______ along its body.
Black ink
Racing Horse
sweat
A tiny insect with some _____ on its back
____________ the cabbage, showing the
creatures _________ in the cabbage.
red
Cabbage
is fixed on
interest
Deep in thought, a young woman sits alone, with
her hand ________________elegantly positioned
above her knees. To ___________ the woman, Chen
adds a lot of ______ to the fan and the cloth of
her dress and paints the background _______.
holding the fan
emphasise
Poppy
detail
black
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Summary
Xu Beihong
Three painters
Qi Baishi
Chen Yifei
Racing Horse
Three Paintings
Cabbage
Poppy
The passage introduces to us three painters and
the characteristics of their famous paintings
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Test your judgments

Whose painting is it?
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Chen Yifei
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Xu Beihong
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Qi Baishi
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Xu Beihong
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Chen Yifei
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Qi Baishi
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Chen Yifei
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Learn to describe the paintings!
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How to describe a painting?(sample)
The painting was painted by Qi Baishi who was
one of Chinas greatest painters. Across the
painting, we can see a dragonfly flying above the
river. Its eyes are fixed on the lotus, showing
its interest in the lotus. I think that this
painting is vivid.
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This painting was painted bywho Across this
painting, we can see The front horse is The
painter drew in black ink to show I think
that/In my opinion/ I feel that
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1
3
2
This painting was painted bywho Across this
painting, we can see Its eyes I think that/In
my opinion/ I feel that
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This painting was painted bywho In the
painting, a beautiful young woman She is She is
dressed in A cat I think that/In my opinion/ I
feel that
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Homework

• Describe one of the paintings
• Read the text fluently.

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Language points
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• Combine the eggs with a little flour and heat the
  mixture gently.
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• It is difficult for Linda to combine study with
  pleasure.
• ??????,?????????????.

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2. be fixed on ?(???) ??,????(??)

• Her eyes were fixed on the gun.
• ???????.
• Fix ones mind/attention/eyes on sb or sth.
• ???,???,?????
• She fixed her eyes on Mr Browns face and waited
  for his answer.
• ??????????,???????.
• Jack tried to fix his mind on the job at hand.
• ??????????????????.

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3. valuable

• 1)???,???
• This is a very valuable painting.
• ??????????.
• 2)????,???
• Joyce gave us a lot of valuable advice when we
  first started the company.
• ???????, ???????????????.

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• 4. show /take interest in
• Mary show great interest in biology and want to
  do research in it in the future.

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• 5. Qi Baishis style of painting often leaves the
  audience guessing and makes them use their
  imagination.
• leave ??
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• Dont leave her waiting outside in the rain.
• Did you leave the windows firmly fastened?
• Leave the rice to cook for 20 minutes.
• Youd better leave the door open.
• She left the sick boy with her mother.

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Vocabulary
Complete the passage below with the correct form
of words in the box.
shade, artist, painter, painting, exhibition,
gallery, detail, emphasise, elegant
I had the most interesting afternoon yesterday. I
met an (1) _____ and she showed me some of her
paintings in an art (2) ______.
artist
gallery
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She also told me about how she started to draw at
a very young age and decided to be a (3)
_______When she was ten! This is her first (4)
_________ and it is going really well. So far,
she has sold six (5) _________ ! I really love
her work because her painting are filled with (6)
________. She always paints (7) _______ women in
gardens.
painter
exhibition
paintings
detail
elegant
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Her use of many different (8) _______ of color
(9) ___________ the womens beauty. I wish I
could have bought a painting, but they are too
expensive for me!
shades
emphasise
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Grammar
prepositions of time, place and movement
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Copy and complete the following table with these
prepositions from the text

• during his lifetime
• between 1933 and 1940
• across this painting
• along the horses body

• near the cabbage
• above her knees
• behind the woman

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expressions of time expressions of place expressions of movement
between behind near between above across along
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Pair Work Ask your partners

• When their birthday is
• When they usually have supper
• What time they went to bed last night
• At what speed a turtle can walk
• How fast a spaceship can run
• Where America is
• Where people usually plant trees in cities

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Complete the description of the picture.
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Complete the description of the picture.
This was probably painted (1)_____the nineteenth
century and show people (2) ______a park,
(3)______a Sunday afternoon. Some people are
sitting (4) ______the grass (5)______the trees
and others are just walking (6)_____the park.
(7)____the background, (8)_____the left, there
are a few boats (9)______the shallow lake.
in
in
on
on
under
in
in
on
on
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Complete the description of the picture.
Some people are standing on the shore
(10)_____the water looking at the boats.
(11)______the center of the picture there is a
woman and a girl. The woman is holding an
umbrella (12)_____her head. (13) ______the
foreground, (14)______the left, a woman is
sitting(15)________two men. A black dog is
standing (16)________them.
near
in
above
In
on
between
behind
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Exercise Fill in suitable prepositions in the
blanks.
at

1. You can see a horse running ______ high speed
   like a missile ______ the sky.
2. He also used different shades of grey in a
   creative way to show the sweat______ the
   horses body.
3. He worked with wood _______his early youth.
4. The tiny insect _____the cabbage has some red
   _____ its back.
5. Its black eyes, which are fixed ______ the
   cabbage, show the creatures interest in the
   vegetable.
6. One of his paintings sold ______ US 503,000.
7. In the painting, a young woman sits alone and is
   deep ______ thought.
8. Chen adds a lot of detail ______ the fan and the
   cloth of her dress.

across
along
during
on
near
on
for
in
to
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Language in use

• Bring a picture or a photo Describe it to your
  group members.
• Example
• This is a photo I took in Shanghai in the
  summer of 1999. I was standing in front of the
  Oriental Pearl TV Tower and the girl next to me
  with the thick glasses on is my sister. She has
  very bad eyesight.