Teaching aims:

  Enabling the students to

   1. grasp the following words and phrases:

      alive / aspect / imitate / (art movement ) / observe /ordinary / reality…

2. grasp the main idea of the passages.

Teaching Steps:

I. Pre-reading

1 Show some portraits of artists and their works. Including Pablo, Roy Lichtenstein, Qi Baishi and Xu Beihong.

2 Free talk

1)       Have you heard of these people?

2)       Do you know anything about them?