Unit
Objectives
Content
Activities
Time
1. In the World of Painting
- understanding the basic notions of pictorial art and origins of painting;
- learning to describe a picture briefly (different genres and styles).
Key terms: art, painting, styles, genres, artistic elements, painting materials and techniques.
1.Developing vocabulary habits.
2. Working with two texts.
3. Analyzing the picture description outline
4. Practising picture description.
3 hrs/
1.5 class
+
3 hrs self-study
2. Renaissance art
- acquiring essential vocabulary;
- understanding the main features of the Early and High Renaissance painting;
- understanding the subject, theme and message;
- learning to speak about the subject and message.
Reference list of artists and their works.
Essential vocabulary (7 groups).
Text 1. Renaissance Painting.
Text 2. What do Painters Paint?
1. Developing and assessing vocabulary habits.
2. Reading comprehension.
3. Analyzing the subject, theme, and message.
4. Practising speaking ability in role-playing.
3 hrs/
1.5 class
+
3 hrs self-study
3. European Painting of the 17-18 centuries
- understanding the trends of Mannerism, Academism, Caravaggism, Baroque, the Dutch school and English painting;
- learning to draw similarities and differences between the trends;
- understanding the role and elements of the composition.
Reference list of artists and their works.
Essential vocabulary (5 groups).
Text 1. European Painting.
Text 2. Importance of Composition.
Text 3. How Composition is Spoken about in Art Books.
European and British painting description.
1. Developing peer-teaching skills in assessing the vocabulary and reading, listening comprehension.
2. Learning how to speak about the composition.
3. Mastering argumentative speaking ability.
3 hrs/
1.5 class
+
3 hrs self-study
4. French
Impressionism
- understanding the peculiarities of Impressionism;
- learning to speak about colour and light;
- mastering picture description.
Reference list of artists and their works.
Essential vocabulary (5 groups).
Text 1. French Impressionism
Text 2. New painting: Impressionism.
1. Analyzing vocabulary and developing lexical habits.
2. Practising intensive and scan reading.
3. Speaking about the most prominent Impressionists and their works.
4. Mastering description and commentary skills.
3 hrs/
1.5 class
+
3 hrs self-study
5. Russian Critical Realism
- understanding the movements of Russian Itinerants and the main features of critical realism;
- learning the difference between Russian classicism and realism;
- mastering spoken language in real-life situations.
Reference list of artists and their works.
Text 1. Development of Critical Realism in Russia.
Text 2. Genre Painting in Russian Critical Realism.
1. Developing professional linguistic and peer-teaching skills by analyzing the form, meaning and use of certain vocabulary units and by presenting the new vocabulary to class.
2. Practising listening and reading comprehension.
3. Learning to compare and contrasts.
3 hrs/
1.5 class
+
3 hrs self-study
6. Modern Pictorial Art
- understanding modern artistic trends: Avant-garde, Cubism, Fauvism, Surrealism, Op art, etc.
- mastering skills of argumentative speech in different painting oriented situations.
Reference list of artists and their works.
Text 1. Art in Society.
Text 2. Abstract Art.
1. Analyzing peculiarities of modern trends.
2. Mastering picture description skills in contemporary works as well as traditional art schools of European painting.
3 hrs/
1.5 class
+
3 hrs self-study
Supplement
3. Terms used in discussing a picture
5. Describing a picture
Reference literature