NAME: Carlos Gualpa DATE: Friday 16th July 2021

Learning Strategy
(Unit 8, page 92, Reading)

READING STRATEGY: identifying main ideas

Identifying the main ideas in a reading helps you understand the point the writer is
making.

PRACTICE
A. Draw a line to match the statement that best summarizes each paragraph in the
article “Is It Talent or Hard Work?” on page 92.

1. Paragraph 1 a. Great artists not only have talent, but they also have
years of training.

2. Paragraph 2 b. Children are willing to show their artistic creations to

others, but adults would rather not.

3. Paragraph 3 c. Betty Edwards feels that everyone can improve his or

her artistic ability.

4. Paragraph 4 d. All artwork done by children looks similar.

B. Now write a one-sentence summary of the whole article.

He says that when we were children we made scribbles
According to the article, artistic ability
of drawings but artists also have their preparation to
___________________________________________________________________.
make their spectacular and abstract drawings of facts
Since they also have a preparation of years for which
they have struggled to obtain and be able to have that
ability for drawing and it is not easy to criticize mine,
which is a very difficult profession to practice at the
same time since it has a unique ability that only they
contain and that we many of the times do not know how
to appreciate and apart from that and if you give it of a
child to draw and you can bend to scribbling and
drawing while an adult does not since he feels lazy or
has different and can not often search or find his ability
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