Unit 3 The art of painting Extended reading Step 1 Lead-in What do you want to know about this masterwork? Step 2 Global reading Look through the text quickly and answer these questions： ? What’s the genre of the text? An introductory essay. ? How does the author develop the essay? From the general introduction about the Qingming Scroll to some details about the painting, the author makes readers know about the painting step by step. Please read Paragraph 1, can you use one sentence to introduce the Qingming Scroll ? ? About details from paragraph 2 to paragraph 5, what’s the main idea of each paragraph? Para. 2: The main sections of the Qingming Scroll Para. 3: The artistic technique reflected in the Qingming Scroll Para. 4: The message conveyed in the Qingming Scroll Para. 5: The value and influence of the Qingming Scroll Pay attention to the topic sentence of each paragraph. Step 3 Detailed reading Paragraph 2 ? What’s the painting about? It’s about people’s lives in Bianjing in the 12th century, including scenes of rural life, the riverbanks, the splendid central bridge and life inside the city. Paragraph 3 ? What materials did Zhang Zeduan use? He used ink on silk. Paragraph 3 ? What enables Zhang to show an enormous amount of detail? His well-developed ability, as well as the scroll’s ambitious size. Paragraph 4 ? What message does Zhang Zeduan want to get across? The painting reveals a great deal about life during the Northern Song Dynasty. It tells us about customs, clothing, transportation methods, business practices and architecture styles of that time. However, on closer inspection, it also exposes serious political and social problems. Paragraph 4 ? In order to illustrate that the painting exposes serious political and social problems, what explanatory method does the author use? And what are the political and social problems? The author illustrates that the painting exposes serious political and social problems by listing some examples. The government has lost control of food supplies and transportation. Soldiers appear to ignore their duties. There are some less obvious indicators of trouble too. Paragraph 5 ? What does the value of the Qingming Scroll lie in? Its value lies in its great scale, artistic quality, attention to detail, and its representation of daily life. Paragraph 5 ? Why some of copies are now regarded as precious works of art in their own right? And what can we infer from this? Because the value of Qingming Scroll is down not only to its great scale, artistic quality and attention to detail, but also due to its representation of daily life. From this we can know that the Qingming Scroll is really of great value so that even its copies are treated as precious works of art. Step 4 Writing a summary ? Write a summary of the essay. ? Two groups present their summaries. The Qingming Scroll describes people’s lives in Bianjing in the 12th century, including scenes of rural life, the riverbanks, the splendid centr ... ...
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