自已刷托福阅读时，做到了一篇关于拉斯科洞窟壁画的文章，读的不亦乐乎（因为本人也比较喜欢西方艺术，读过一些艺术史），于是一鼓作气搜索托福阅读艺术类。
一些文章看了题目就不感兴趣……感兴趣的不知为啥都要注册付费（也许是我搜索能力不精……）
忽而搜到一篇关于埃及艺术的，心想还可以试试，结果看到第一段是这样的：
The earliest Egyptian art is very different from that of the pyramids and temples of the Pharaonic period. As early as the eighth millennium BC, the first inhabitants of the Nile Valley began to make engraved drawings on the cliffs, particularly in UpperEgyptand Nubia. They depicted the fundamentals of their lives, from wild game and hunting scenes in the earlier times to river boats and herds of cattle in the early Neolithic period. The art of the Predynastic period has survived mainly in the form of small carved stone and ivory grave goods, together with pottery vessels, placed alongside the deceased in simple pit burials. The small votive figures of people and animals include many female statuettes made of pottery and ivory, whose exaggerated sexual characteristics suggest that they probably related to early fertility cults.
这段文字倒不是读不懂，但就是读之后心虚。
尼罗河流域公元前八千年，是什么时代？英文材料里说到了岩画，说到了随葬品，说到了简陋的墓穴，说到了性别象征突出的似母系氏族社会的小雕像，但是我在百度百科里没有搜到相应的中文解说和图片（once again,也许是我搜索能力不精……)。
百度里说埃及艺术，大多是从公元前三千年开始的。
当然你也许会说，读英文不就是为了get information 嘛，何必还要找到与之对应的中文和图片。嗯，也有道理。但至少现在，这样的information对我来说太过孤立，没法深入理解以便留下深刻印象。
想象一下，如果有一位老师专门讲述了从远古时期到王国时期尼罗河流域的人类历史，并辅以ppt,图片和视频资料，我会更乐于继续阅读这篇文章，并得到和阅读拉斯科洞窟壁画相同的阅读快感！
反思自己的认知过程，对教学还是很有益。
今天听了一个讲座，收获实在！
一堂课，怎么设计才是好的设计，最根本的是要符合人类的认知规律，因势利导。
说实在的，之前我对导入环节的理解，仅限于review, warm up和lead in.
形式做的很足，内容也可以夺人眼球，但目的还不够明确。
泛泛的说导入就是为了让学生熟悉话题，引出教学内容，还是我太肤浅。
但最近我学习反思得到：真正的导入，就应该像那个讲埃及的老师起到的作用一样，为学生做好阅读之前的铺垫。
这个铺垫既可以是词汇上的（扫除新词障碍），更应该是内容上的（激活相关领域背景知识）。
至于自由阅读者，比较高效的一种阅读方式是：集中一段时间做专题阅读，这样就省却了大脑在不同领域背景反复跳跃的额外做功。对同领域词汇复现，积累也很有好处。
下面截取托福阅读话题分类中“社会科学”一类及其例文，供大家选定主题时参考：（其中就有上文我提到的拉斯科岩洞壁画和埃及雕塑两篇文章）
社会科学
一、艺术绘画/雕塑/陶瓷
1 Sample：Lascaux Cave Paintings
2 TPO 04：Cave Art in Europe
3 TPO 10：Chinese Pottery
4 TPO 11：Ancient Egyptian Sculpture
5 TPO 23：Rock Art of the Australian Aborigines
6 TPO 29-1：Characteristics of Roman Pottery
7 TPO27-1：Crafts in the Ancient near East
建筑/戏剧/电影/摄影
1 OG：Applied Arts and Fine Arts
2 TPO 01：The Origins of Theater
3 TPO 02：Early Cinema
4 TPO 03：Architecture
5 TPO 12：Transition to Sound in Film
10 TPO 22：The Birth of Photography
二、历史/考古学/工业化介绍
1 OG：Artisans and Industrialization
2 TPO 06：Powering The Industrial Revolution
3 TPO 18：Industrialization in The Netherlands and Scandinavia
4 TPO 26：Energy and the Industrial Revolution
5 TPO 30-3: The Invention of the Mechanical Clock
6 TPO 32：Siam, 1851-1910
7 TPO 33：The first civilization
8 TPO 33：Railroads and Commercial Agricuture
贸易/经济介绍
1 TPO 10：Seventeenth-Century European Economic Growth
2 TPO14：Pastoralism in Ancient Inner Eurasia
3 TPO 16：Trade and The Ancient Middle East
4 TPO 17：Europe’s Early Sea Trade with Asia
5 TPO 25：The Decline of Venetian Shipping
农业发展介绍
1 TPO 07：Agriculture, Iron, and The Bantu Peoples
2 TPO21：The Origins of Agriculture
3 TPO 23：Seventeenth-Century Dutch Agriculture
国家/城市特点
1 OG：Nineteenth-Century Politics in The United States
2 TPO 07-2：Ancient Rome and Greece
3 TPO 08：The Rise of Teotihuacan
4 TPO 14：Maya Water Problems
5 TPO 19：The Roman Army’s Impact on Britain
6 TPO 26：Sumer and The First Cities of The Ancient Near East
人口变化特点
1 TPO 05：The Origins of The Pacific Island People
2 TPO 09：Colonizing The Americas Via The Northwest Coast
3 TPO 20：Westward Migration
4 TPO 20：Early Settlement in The Southwest Asia
5 TPO 24：Moving into Pueblos
6 TPO 28-2: Early Saharan Pastoralists
三、心理/生理学
1 OG：Aggression
2 OG：The Expression of Emotion
3 TPO06：Infantile Amnesia
4 TPO 13：Methods of Studying Infant Perception
5 TPO 18：The Mystery of Yawning
6 TPO 21：Autobiographical Memory
7 TPO 24：Breathing During Sleep
四、社会学/教育
1 TPO09：Reflection in Teaching
2 TPO 13：Types of Social Groups
3 TPO 14：Children and Advertising
4 TPO 31-2： Early Children Education
其他学科类/人物小传
1 OG：Loie Fuller
2 TPO 06：William Smith
3 TPO 16：Development of The Periodic Table
4 TPO 12：Which Hand Did They Use?
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