1. What are they about?

2. Unit 3
Art and Architecture

3. Vocabulay creation or expression of something beautiful.
Art :
design or style of a building.
Architecture:
person who designs building.
Architect:

4. Well-known architectures around the world
Buckingham Palace
Eiffel Tower
泰姬陵
Taj Mahal
金门大桥
the Golden Gate Bridge
法国卢浮宫
Louvre
Leaning Tower of Pisa

5. Well-known architectures around the world
伦敦塔桥
Tower Bridge
法国凯旋门
Triumphal arch
The Opera House
The Potala Palace
in Lhasa
The Great Wall
The Heaven Temple

6. Well-known architectures around us
Shanghai
Shenzhen
Hongkong
Modern architecture
Wuzhen
Traditional architecture

7. Where do you live?
Do you like living there?

8. Warming up
Describe what you see in the pictures.

9. Description for reference:
This shows several modern blocks of flats as can be seen in many cities and towns around China today.

10. Description for reference:
This shows a traditional Chinese house in a siheyuan. This type of house has a long history in China and can still be seen everywhere. Houses are still built in this style, both in the countryside and in the cities.

11. Warming up
Where would you prefer to live? Why?

12. modern traditional Old / ancient / sometimes small
Tall /huge
Comfortable ( no water leaking in, no wind blowing through, good heating , a toilet and bathroom )
See in the distance/ have a better view
Save land
Made up of steel, glass and concrete /poisonous
Look the same
Hear noise from the neighbors
Not much contact with the neighbors
Be not close to nature
Old / ancient / sometimes small
Not always comfortable /not water-proof
Specially-styled
Waste land
Building materials/ nice/not strong enough/ environment-saving
Its own characteristics
Be close to nature and the neighbors

13. Block of flats Traditional house
Preferences living in a traditional house or in a block of flat
Block of flats
Traditional house
The house is old.
The rooms are small.
The ceiling is (sometimes) high.
The house is not (always) so comfortable. Sometimes there is no (own) toilet or bathroom.
The house is very special.
The building materials are nice.
The house is very quiet.
There are flowers and birds in the garden.
There is a lot of contact with the neighbours. They know and help each other.
The house is modern.
The rooms are big.
The ceiling is Iow.
The house is comfortable (no water leaking in, no wind blowing through, good healing).
Every house has a toilet and bathroom.
All the houses are the same.
The building material is not very beautiful.
You often hear noise from the neighbours.
To see flowers or birds, we have to go to a park.
There is not much contact with the neighbours.

14. design
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?

15. We may consider large or small windows, kinds of heating (kang, or floor heating or something
else), rooms of different sizes and having a garden.

16. People often have different preferences regarding building materials
People often have different preferences regarding building materials. Traditional materials are brick, wood, reed (thatched roof) and bamboo. Modem materials include concrete, glass and steel. A traditional house should not be confused with an old or bad house. A siheyuan can be fitted out with all modem conveniences.

17. Architecture
What words and phrases do you think will be useful when you want to talk about these two words.

18. Useful words and expressions when we talk about art and architecture.
Category
Examples of words and phrases
Style
Shape and colour
Materials
modern traditional
round square curving high flat dark light warm cold
stone wood glass brick plastic paint

19. Work in groups and find out the history of art and architecture, names of architects, famous building and works of art in the world.

20. Liang Sicheng

21. The new Olympic Stadium in Beijing Li Xinggang

22. Grand National Theatre
国家大剧院
保罗·安德鲁
Paul Andreu

23. Grand National Theatre
保罗·安德鲁
Paul Andreu
Grand National Theatre
国家大剧院

24. 贝聿铭
Ieoh Ming Pei

25. 古斯塔夫·埃菲尔
Gustave Eiffel

26. 大埃及博物馆
彭士佛
Heneghan·Peng

27. 伦敦水晶宫
Joseph Paxton
帕克斯顿

28. F.Lete 流水别墅

32. Listening

33. Speaking

34. Homework: Learn the new words by heart.
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