Mi vida en otra lengua

Semana 1
Unit I. What are you doing?

Actividad integradora 1. Dancing at the Moulin

1. Look at the painting Dance at the mill of the Galette (Bal du moulin de la Galette) by Pierre-
Auguste Renoir. What is happening on the scene?
(Observa la pintura “El baile del molino de la Galette” (Bal du moulin de la Galette) de Pierre-Auguste
Renoir. ¿Qué está sucediendo en la escena?)

Dance at the mill of the Galette (Bal du moulin de la Galette), Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1

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Pierre-Auguste, Renoir, El baile del molino de la Galette, Jean-Gilles Berizzi en Musée d'Orsay, 1876, http://www.musee-orsay.fr/es/colecciones/obras-
comentadas/pintura.html?no_cache=1&zoom=1&tx_damzoom_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=4038 (consultado el 18 de julio de 2018).

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Unit I. What are you doing?

2. Answer the following questions:

(Responde las siguientes preguntas:)

What is happening in the picture?

A great part of the people dance with their partner who is madly in love, but the other part
who is sitting down is eating and talking very happily, although there are others who seem
to be observing the landscape.

What are the woman and the man doing? (a) What are they wearing?

They dance very elegantly, they seem to be in love

a) The lady wears a beautiful pink dress with blue tones in some parts, and the gentleman
wears a sand-colored suit with a black vest and a white shirt, he also wears a black hat on
his head.

What is the man with hat next to the tree doing? (b)

It seems that you are looking for or looking at someone, in the first case it could be that I
looked for a relative or a maiden in whom you are interested, in the second case it seems
that you have found the love of your life.

What are the girl and the woman doing? (c) What do you think they are talking about?

They seem to talk, although it seems more like mother and daughter.
They may be talking about what interests the child, like animals, but they may also be
giving her lessons about life.

What are the two women and the man doing? (d) What do you think they are talking about?

They enjoy a good cup of tea or some other drink, while they talk.
It looks like it's a bridal couple and the lady who's in black, so it looks like they're in wedding
plans, and they might be talking about some of those things.

What are the two men at the table doing? (e)

They may come with people from the same table, as they seem to be very attentive to their
conversation, but one of them seems to be smoking.

3. Write two questions that you would ask the characters.

(Escribe dos preguntas que les harías a los personajes.)

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Unit I. What are you doing?

What are you celebrating?

What do you think about "the lower classes"?

4. Record a voice message where you describe what happens in the painting, to send to your
friend as an audio file on WhatsApp. You can start by saying:
(Graba un mensaje de voz en que describas lo que ocurre en la pintura, para enviarlo a tu amigo(a)
como archivo de audio por WhatsApp. Puedes iniciar diciendo:)

“Hi, guess what? I am watching a fantastic painting named Dance at the mill of the Galette. There
are many people there. In the picture, I can see…”

My audio o URL
(Copy the URL of your audio here.)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kvistrvh7grl2xh/J_Fredy_JM%20-%20Audio
%20M07S1AI1%20%28original%29.mp3?dl=0

Hi bro
I'm already here at the Musée d'Orsay, too bad you had to stay at the hotel because of the flu,
here's a very interesting picture, it looks like you're at a party or a dance, as we used to say,
but there are a lot of people, many of them seem to dance very much in love with their partner,
you and I wouldn't fit in here, but my consolation is that there are also people at tables eating,
drinking, talking or one or two smoking their typical pipe. There is a boy, very curious, whose
gaze is fixed somewhere, for me he is looking at the love of his life, and right at the table
behind him it seems that there is a future marriage, well it seems that way, because there are
two young people or an older lady who seems to be the mother-in-law. I think this is the most
interesting thing, I already took a picture of her so I'm sending it to you right now.
See you, take care, she arrived with the whole group around 6:00 pm.

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