Warming up speaking Unit 3 Art and Architecture Warming up speaking

New words and expressions 1. architecture n. (u) (1)art and science of designing and constructing buildings. 建筑学 (2) design or style of a building or buildings. 建筑设计；建筑风格 the architecture of the eighteenth century 十八世纪的建筑风格 architectural adj. 建筑学的；建筑上的 architecturally adv. architect n. 建筑师；设计师 2. preference n. (C) (1)liking for sth (more than something else) ( 与他物相较之）喜爱；偏爱

New words and expressions preference for sth. 她特别喜欢蓝色 She has a preference for blue. (2) [u] preference to / towards sb. favor shown to one person, group, etc rather than another. 优待；优惠；优先权 老师尽量不对任何学生表现出偏袒。 Teachers try not to show preference to any students.

New words and expressions in preference to sb. / sth. rather than sb. / sth. 而不取某人或某物 她愿学小提琴而不学钢琴。 She chose to learn the violin in preference to the piano. 3. stand vt. accept successfully or without undesirable results; bear 我无法忍受看到儿童吸烟。 I can’t stand seeing children smoking.

Warming up Describe what you see in the two pictures. Where would you prefer to live. Why?

If you were free to design your own dream house, what would that house look like? What materials would you use? Explain why you make certain choices about your dream house? What words and phrases do you think will be useful when you want to talk about art and architecture?

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Look at the pictures and find out the one you like best. Try to explain why you prefer one thing to another.

I’d rather… I’m much more interested… In my opinion… I wouldn’t feel happy if… I’m not very interested in… I don’t get very excited about… If you ask me, then… I prefer something that… I like seeing something… What I like is… I can’t stand…

Exercises: 1.Boris has brains. In fact, I doubt whether anyone in the class has ______ IQ. A. a high B. a higher C. the higher D. the highest 2. I can hardly hear the radio, would you please ___? A. turn it out B. turn it down C. turn it up D. turn it off 3. I didn’t mind ____ home but my brother preferred ___ a taxi. A. walking; getting B. to walk; get C. walking; to get D. walk; getting B C C

Exercises: 4. In fact ___ is a hard job for the police to keep order in an important football match. A. this B. that C. there D. it 5. Two middle-aged passengers fell into the sea. ____, neither of them could swim. A. In fact B. Luckily C. Unfortunately D. Naturally Look, it looks as if it ____ going to rain. We must hurry OK. A. was B. is C. were D. will be D C C

Try to find out the history of art and architecture, names of artists and architects, famous buildings and works of art in the world.