Street art

1) You were walking down the street yesterday and you passed by a museum. In the building
in front of the museum you saw some graffiti and paintings. This made you think about the
following questions.

Where can we find art?

Can a graffiti or a mural be

considered art works?

Why do people paint on the

walls in the streets?

2) As you keep on thinking about these questions, you decide to search the internet for some
answers. Google shows you the following definitions and images, and you try to identify
which image is an example of the different types of art.

Different types of art

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › art t…

● Fine art is a type of art that is created just to appreciate its own value and beauty. It
does not have another purpose and it is the kind of art we find in most museums.
● Street art is a type of art that is public and can be found on the streets. It is painted
on building walls or other places. Some street artists want to transmit a social or
political message, others just want to make their cities more beautiful.
● Graffiti may or may not be a type of art. It refers to photos, words, initials, or drawings
that are spray-painted or scratched onto walls, sidewalks, or any other public areas.
a) _________________ b) _________________ c) ________________

d) ___________________ e) __________ f) ________________

3) You realized that you were looking for more information on a webpage which is not very
reliable, so you think some of it may be wrong. You decide to tick the sentences that you
think are correct and make a cross on the ones that you think are wrong.

*art’s sake: the only purpose is to create art

4) As you are not sure about the answers to your questions in task 1, you decide to look up
some information online. This is what you find on an art blog. You read it to check your
answers to the previous task.

*ban: to prohibit something

*harass: to intimidate aggressively over a
period of time
 5) An Australian friend is doing a project about street art around the world and she
contacts you to confirm if the information she has about street art in Buenos
Aires is correct. You help her by reading her notes and circling the right option.

6) Your classmate didn’t come to class yesterday and has asked you for your notes on
street art and if it is permitted or not. However, you dropped some coffee over your notes
and they are a bit tainted. You complete them with information from the text.

● In many countries, some street artists _______________________________

● In other countries, ______________________________________________
● In Buenos Aires, Argentina, _______________________________________
● In fact, the police _______________________________________________
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1) Take a look at these sentences from task 2 and answer the question below.

● Instead, artists have opted for colorful, playful,humorous designs.

● Since long ago, there has been a 3-hour tour through Buenos Aires city.

What do the sentences above express? Tick the correct options.

a) an action that started and finished at a specific time in the past
b) an action that started in the past and continues in the present
c) an action that happened in the past but the time is not mentioned or not important

2) Read these sentences and circle the correct option.

a) An artist has/have painted on walls in the city.
b) People has/have begun to notice the value of street art.

3) Look at the verbs in bold and then look at the chart below. Which form of the verb is
used?

Infinitive Past simple Past Participle

paint painted painted

begin began begun

4) So…

The present perfect is formed by have/_______ + a verb in its ___________________

form.

5) Go back to exercise 1 and complete the following sentence.

We use the present perfect tense to express an action ___________________________

_________________________ or ___________________________________________.
7) Now, you are curious about street art, so you and your friends go around the city to
look for examples of it. You take some pictures and your friend posts the one on the left.
You choose one of your pictures to post it and describe it, as your friend did.
You think about these questions to guide your description:

● What's it like?
● Where is it?
● How big/wide/long is it?
● What colours has the artist used?
● How has he/she painted it?
● What message has the artist tried to communicate?

53 and 21

73 and 55

74 and 63 1 and Plaza Matheu

Your friend’s post Your post

This artist has painted 5 women and This artist____________________
2 babies on streets 34 and 16. It’s ____________________________
very colourful. She has painted ____________________________
native women who are not looking ____________________________
at us, but they are going ____________________________
somewhere. Perhaps her intention
is to paint people who don’t usually
receive much attention. She has
used many different colours on the
wall of a house. She has created an
amazing work of art!