华东理工大学 高级英语 授课教案 Book 2 unit 6.pptVIP

Unit 6 Disappearing Through The Skylight 1.Background Knowledge 2.Vocabulary 3.Text Analysis 4.Exercise Fiat: the biggest Italian car manufacturing company.  Volkswagen Beetle: Model name of a car designed and manufactured by the German car manufacturing company, Volkswagen. Volkswagen includes the models of Golf,GTL, Jeffa, New Beetle, New Beetle Convertible, Passat, Passat Wagon, Phaeton and Touareg. Picabia: Francis Picabia( 1878-1953),a French Dadaist/surrealist painter Dada was a protest by a group of European artists against World War I, bourgeois society, and the conservativism of traditional thought. Its followers used absurdities and non sequiturs to create artworks and performances which defied any intellectual analysis. They also included random found objects in sculptures and installations. The founders included the French artist Jean Arp and the writers Hugo Ball and Tristan Tzara. Francis Picabia was also key contributors. The Dada movement evolved into Surrealism in the 1920s. Surrealism is a style in which fantastical visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the work logically comprehensible. Founded by André Breton in 1924, it was a primarily European movement that attracted many members of the chaotic Dada movement. It was similar in some elements to the mystical 19th-century Symbolist movement, but was deeply influenced by the psychoanalytic work of Freud and Jung. Picasso’s work: Game Theory: Game theory is a branch of mathematical analysis developed to study decision making in conflict situations. Such a situation exists when two or more decision makers who have different objectives act on the same system or share the same resources. . Game theory provides a mathematical process for selecting an OPTIMUM STRATEGY (that is, an optimum decision or a sequence of decisions) in the face of an opponent who has a strategy of his