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Unit 1
Using Language
Have you ever been to any galleries before?
Do you think visiting galleries is interesting?
Visiting galleries can not only bring people wonderful feelings but also teach them many things.
Fast reading Read the passage quickly, then answer the foll
owing questions:
1. How many galleries mentioned in this text?
What are they?
2. What is the passage mainly about?
3.Who do you think the text was written for?
4. Where might you see such a text?
Fast reading
Answer the following questions:
1. How many galleries mentioned in this text?
What are they?
Five
The Frick Collection
弗里克收藏馆
Henry Clay Frick
Guggenheim Museum古根海姆博物馆
Metropolitan Museum Of Art
大都会博物馆
Museum of Modern Art 现代艺术博物馆
Monet
Matisse
French painter
Whitney Museum of American Art
惠特尼美国艺术博物馆
Match the numbers on the map with the names of the museums.
1
2
3
4
5
The Frick Collection
Guggenheim Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
street
avenue
match the numbers on the map with the museums.match the numbers on the map with the museums.
Fast reading
2. What is the passage mainly about?
A.A. art museums in New York and their art museums in New York and their collections and exhibitionscollections and exhibitions
B. different artists in New YorkC. different art works displayed at the
same time in New YorkD. general introduction to the history of
art in New York
A
3.Who do you think the text was written for?
4. Where might you see such a text?
Tourists, art gallery visitors.
A.Possibly in a guide book.B.On a newspaper.C.A novelD.A magazine
A
1.You must walk all the way instead of taking a lift if you visit _____ .
2. If you want to see Van Gogh’s paintings, you may go to ___
3. You can expect to see videos in_____ .
4. If you want to know how people lived 5,000 years ago, you should visit ___ .
5. Which museum does number 4 in the map stand for?
6.Where can we enjoy a special exhibition of new art by living artists?
7. _____ is the best place for people who love Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings.
8. ____ contributed all his possession to the country and the museum was thus named after him.
4. Where might you see such a text?
Read the text again and try to find the answers of following questions
1. You must walk all the way instead of taking a lift if you visit _____ .
A. Metropolitan Museum of Art
B. Whitney Museum of American Art
C. Museum of Modern Art
D. Guggenheim Museum
2. If you want to see Van Gogh’s paintings, you may go to _____ .
A. The Frick Collection
B. Guggenheim Museum
C. Museum of Modern Art
D. Metropolitan Museum of Art
3. You can expect to see videos in_____.
A. Metropolitan Museum of Art
B. Museum of Modern Art
C. The Frick Collection
D. Whitney Museum of American Art
4. If you want to know how people lived 5,000 years ago, you should visit ___ .
A. Metropolitan Museum of Art
B. Whitney Museum of American Art
C. Museum of Modern Art
D. Guggenheim Museum
5. Which museum does number 4 in the map stand for?
A. Metropolitan Museum of Art
B. The Frick Collection
C. Museum of Modern Art
D. Whitney Museum of American Art
6. Where can we enjoy a special exhibition of new art by living artists?A. Whitney Museum of American Art.B. Museum of Modern Art.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art.D. The Frick Collection.
7. _____ is the best place for people who love Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings.
A. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
B. Museum of Modern Art.
C. Whitney Museum of American Art.
D. Guggenheim Museum.
A
D
8. ____ contributed all his possession to the country and the museum was thus named after him.
• A. Metropolitan
• B. Whitney
• C. Frick
• D. Picasso
C
• 1. would rather• 2. have a preference for• 3. be well worth a visit• 4. appeal to• 5. feel as if• 6. lie in• 7. the variety of its are collection• 8. more than 5000 years of civilization• 9. a typical room• 10. It is amazing that …• 11. art works• 12. admission price• 13. contemporary American painting • 14. all the time
• 1. 宁可• 2.偏爱• 3.很值得一看• 4.吸引,呼吁• 5. 感到好像• 6.在于• 7. 多样的艺术收藏品• 8.五千多年的文明史 • 9.一个典型的房间• 10.令人惊讶的是• 11.艺术作品• 12.票价• 13.当代美国绘画• 14.一直
• 15. all the time• 16. every two years• 17. hold a special
echibition• 18. living artists
• 15. 一直• 16.每两年• 17. 举行一次特别• 的展览• 18.活着的艺术家
Enjoy the following pictures and discuss.
Which of the five galleries would you choose to visit? Why?
Discussion
Enjoy the following pictures and discuss.
Which of the five galleries would you choose to visit? Why?
Guggenheim Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Frick Collection
Museum of Modern Art
Complete the chart with the information from the reading passage.
Name Address
Type of Art
Which centuries?
What countries?
20th-21st centuries America
945 Madison Avenue, near 75thStreet
Whitney Museum of AmericanArt
Name Address
Type of Art
Which
centuries?
What
countries?
Museum
of
Modern
Art
19th-21st
centuries
Western
countries
53rd Street,
between
5th and 6th
Avenues
Name Address
Type of Art
Which centuries?
What countries?
from
ancient
to modern
times
all over the world
Metro-politan Museum of Art
5th Avenue and 82nd Street
Name Address
Type of Art
Which centuries?
What countries?
Guggen-heimMuseum
Western countries
20th-21st centuries
5th Avenue and 88th Street
Name Address
Type of Art
Which centuries?
What countries?
The Frick Museum
pre-20th century
Western countries
5th Avenue and E. 70thStreet