老师：Hello everyone, welcome to our online English class. I am Peng Bo from the Experimental High School attached to Beijing Normal University. It is my great pleasure to take this online class with you.
老师：Today we are going to learn viewing workshop in Unit 7. In this lesson, we will watch videos about two famous paintings. Are you ready for this amazing audio visual experience? Let's get started. Do you still remember this painting? We've Learned about it in Lesson 1 in this unit. This is The Starry Night, one of the world's most famous paintings. It is painted by Vincent van Gogh, one of the most renowned artists in the history of western art. In Lesson 1 of this unit, the author tells us what is shown in the painting.
老师：Now, you can review paragraph 1 in Lesson 1 and fill in the blank with appropriate words. Have you finished? Let's check the answers together. The first one, Van Gogh painted what he saw from his window. From this sentence, we can know the perspective from which Wango saw The Starry Night. Next one, however, he didn't just paint the clouds. He also painted the massive circles of white and yellow racing across the sky. The stars and the moon hang bright in the night sky. Beneath this amazing sky, we see a sleeping village and a dark, lonely tree. From this short paragraph, we know that the painting presents the following things, a dark, lonely tree, the night sky with clouds, stars and the moon, massive circles of white and yellow, and a sleeping village.
老师：Among all these things, what is the first and last thing you notice in this painting? Where is the Starry Night exhibited? Now The Starry Night is exhibited in the museum of the Modern Art in New York. Every year, millions of visitors and art enthusiasts come to the museum to view this marvelous painting. As is shown in the photos, they usually listen to the introduction in the audio guide to better understand the painting. Now apart from the audio guide, there are also video introductions to The Starry Night, which will save us the trouble of flying to New York and waiting in lines. If you are going to watch an introduction to The Starry Night. What would you like to learn in the video? Before we watch the video, let's learn some new words to help you understand it. You can match the highlighted word in the left column with its definition in the right column. First one, she felt embarrassed under the man's steady gaze. Here, gaze is a noun. It means long, steady look, or in Chinese, ningshi. Second, she was looking at her slumbering child. Slumber means to sleep. Next sentence, nobody knows what happens. It seems mysterious. from the context in this sentence，也就是这个句子的语境。
老师：We can see that mysterious means difficult to explain or understand. It is an adjective and in
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