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Amadeu Marques; Ana Carolina Cardoso
2º ano do ensino médio
 Unit 7 – Have You Ever Heard of Banksy?

NESSA UNIDADE:
• Let's Start
• Reading
• Word Study
• Language Study
• Speaking
• Listening
• Writing

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LET’S START

Which work of art reproduced on the right do you

like best? Why?

Read the text on page 113, observe its title and

format. Then do the following activities in your
notebook.

a) Do you usually take quizzes?

b) What are quizzes usually about?
c) Where can people usually find quizzes?

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BEFORE YOU READ

1) Look at the picture on the right. What kind of art is

Picture Hooked/Loop Images/Corbis/Latinstock

that? Do you like it? What do you think it
represents?
2) That graffiti was created by an artist called Banksy.
Take a look at the title of the text below, its picture
and the source. Then answer the following
questions.
a) Have people in general ever seen Banksy's face?
b) Where is this text probably from?
• A museum guide.
• A book about art.
• An international newspaper.

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AS YOU READ

When did the following happen?

a) When was one of the artist's graffiti stolen?

b) When did a newspaper reveal Banksy's supposed identity?
c) When did a museum invite Banksy to create an art exhibit?
What's the problem for those who buy Banksy's graffiti on a wall?

Why does Banksy want to keep his face unknown?

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AFTER YOU READ

Discuss the following questions in small groups.

a) Why do you think not everyone values Banksy's art?

b) What other kind of street artists do you know?
c) Are there any street artists in your neighborhood or town?
d) In your opinion, should people value street art? Justify your answer.

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MORE FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Read the texts on page 116 and, in your notebook, answer the following questions.

a) According to text 1, what has happened to the number of visitors at museums and
galleries in England since 2005?

b) What are some examples of "arts engagement" in text 1?

c) What's different about the exhibition pointed out in text 2?
d) Would you like to go to an art exhibition like the one described in text 2? Why (not)?
e) Do you think Brazilians are engaged in arts?
f) Are you engaged in arts? If so, how? If not, would you like to?
g) Are there any arts activities in you city?

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WORD STUDY

Read these sentences from the text Who is Banksy? again, observe the words in italics, pay close attention to the
context and find out their true meaning. Then write down each correct option in your notebook.

"Supposedly not even his parents know that he is a famous artist."

• parentes
• pais
• pares
Scene from the film Exit Through the Gift Shop.

• saída
• êxito
• entrada
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BEFORE YOU LISTEN

• The painting reproduced on the right, called The

Reprodução/Museu de Arte Moderna, ] Nova York, EUA.

Starry Night, was painted by Vincent Van Gogh in
1889. It has been in the permanent collection of the
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City
since 1941. Observe the painting, read the quotation
and discuss the following questions with a classmate.
• "I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream."
(Vincent Van Gogh)
a) What can you see in that painting?
b) How do you like it? Justify your answer.
c) Would you say Van Gogh dreamed about that starry
night before he painted it? If so, what was it that
impressed him most?

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AFTER YOU LISTEN

Reprodução/Mediapro
Discuss the following questions in small groups.

a) Do you agree with the speaker's description of Van Gogh's night sky?
b) Would you like to visit one of Van Gogh's exhibitions? Why (not)?
c) Do you know of any other famous paintings by Van Gogh?
d) Look at the image on the right. It's a poster of the movie Midnight in
Paris, written and directed by Woody Allen and released in 2011. Have
you seen that movie? If so, did you like it?

e) Can you see any similarity between the movie poster and Van Gogh's
painting? Do you think this similarity was on purpose? Why (not)?

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NESSA UNIDADE:
• Let's Start
• Reading
• Word Study
• Language Study
• Listening
• Speaking
• Writing
• Check Your English 2
• Project 2

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LET’S START

• Look at the pictures on the right and read their

captions. Working with a classmate, decide if the
actions shown in the pictures are good or bad ideas
for saving water.

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BEFORE YOU READ

Observe the title of the text on page 127, the factsheet, its picture and its
source. Then choose the best option to complete each sentence.

The text and the factsheet are from

• an online newspaper.
• the United Nations (UN) website.
They both focus on

• an issue that concerns the whole world.

• a problem people are facing only in developing countries.

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LANGUAGE STUDY

Read the sentence below, taken from the text on page 128, paying close
attention to the words in bold.

"I used to wake up very early in the morning [...]“

Now check the correct options. The Zambian mother

• usually wakes up very early.

• has never woken up very early.
• woke up very early regularly in the past.
• doesn't wake up very early at the present time.

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LET’S PRACTICE

Choose the number (I, II, III, IV) that corresponds to each verb form you used
in order to fill in the blanks in the previous activity that was used to talk
about

a) a situation that is happening now.

b) a situation completed at a known time in the past.
c) a permanent state, something that is always true.
d) a situation that has happened in an unfinished period of time.
e) an activity that began in the past and has continued up to the present time,
with a focus on the duration of that activity.

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AS YOU LISTEN

Reprodução/<video.nationalgeographic.com>
Look at the picture on the right.
Which of the tips given in the
previous activity on page 133 is it
showing?

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AFTER YOU LISTEN

Discuss the following questions with a classmate.

a) Which of the tips on page 133 do you follow?

b) Which ones will you start following?
c) Do you agree with the statement "If everyone plays their
part, we can have a better planet"? Why (not)?

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SPEAKING

• You know that our planet has been facing water

scarcity and that this problem will probably become
worse in the near future. So we all need to take
action. How about having your school take action
too? Get together in small groups and discuss the
question below. After the discussion, present your
ideas to the class.

How can our school save water?

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SPEAKING

• The table below contains some words and expressions commonly used to write formal letters of
complaint. Read the text again and identify words or expressions related to each of the columns below.
Write them down in your notebook.

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THINK ABOUT IT

© 2008 Walt Handelsman/Tribune Content Agency

• Observe the cartoon on the right and answer the
following questions together with a classmate.

a) Hogwash is an informal word for nonsense. Is the man

in the first frame worried about global warming?

b) Does he believe global warming is a fact or does he

deny it?

c) What gradually happens to that man?

d) What do the others say happened to him?
e) What does the cartoonist suggest?
f) Is there a connection between global warming and Available at: <http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/globalwarming/ig/ Global-Warming-
Cartoons/Global-Warming-Myth.05VG.htm# step-heading>. Accessed on: April 29, 2016.
water scarcity? What is it?

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