B11/Unit 4/Understanding Art

Important
• This is our last content class
• Do your asynchronic lessons because there are
objectives coverede there.
• Lams 3 and 4 are available now until July 4th.
• Next week speaking portfolio (2) (June 1st)
• The week after (June 8th) portfolio 3. Listening unit
4. (asyncronic activity)
• in the class hour (june 8th) we will do a review for
the final test and final interview (4 units)
 Outcomes
©Read texts about art and understand main ideas
and most details.
©Understand the main ideas of video-audio texts
on an issue related to art.
©Understand and respond to questions asking for
opinions about art.
©Describe a piece of art, compare it to another
piece, and state an opinion with reasons.
©Write a review of a piece of art.
• Look at the following images and answer
the questions
1.What can you see in the picture?
2.s it a piece of art? Yes/No-Why?
3.Do you like it? How does it make

you feel?
4. What colours can you see?
1. Do you like pop music?
2. How does it make you feel?
3. would you recommend this
type of music?
4. What are the lyrics of the
songs usually about?
1. What can you see
in the picture?
2. Do you like it? How
does it make you
feel?
3. Does anything call
your attention?
4. What question
would you ask the
artist?
1. What can you see in
the picture?
2. Is it a piece of art?
Yes/No-Why?
3. Do you like it? How
does it make you
feel?
4. What colours can
you see?
5. What question
would you ask the
artist?
1. Do you like this type of
series? Why/why not?
2. How does it make you
feel?
3. What is the best/worst
series or movie you
have watched? Why?
1.What can you see in the
picture?

2.Is it a piece of art? Yes/No-

Why?

3.Do you like it? How does it

make you feel?

4.What colours can you see?

5.What question would you

ask the artist?
Look at the vocabulary and match the
synonym
1- Children’s painting a) Grassland
2- meadow b) circular
3- abstract c) Interested
4- can’t stand d) but
5- modern e) Appears
6- spikes f) Current/contemporary
7- looks like g) Paintings from very young
8- spiral people
9 – keen h) Can’t tolerate
10- Yet i) Influenced
11- inspired j) Pointed stick
k) Unrealistic
Listen the audio: Multiple choice activity
1. What is Carol's reaction to David's
opinion that modern art looks like it
has been done by children?
a-She can understand why he thinks
that.
b-She disagrees totally.
c-She accuses him of not
d-understanding modern art.
2. What did Carol like about the
picture of the tree?
A-That is was so big.
B- It reminded her of winter.
C-The way the artist represented the
tree.
3. What did Carol say about the
second picture?
A- It was large.
B- It was her favorite painting.
C- It had a lot of strange colors.
4. Which of these statements is not
true of the last painting that Carol
describes?
A-She saw it near the end of the art
gallery visit.
B-She also liked the frame on the
picture.
C-It reminded her of her childhood.
D-She spent a long time looking at it.
5. What suggestion does Carol make
to David at the end of their
conversation?
A-To buy a painting if he sees
something he likes.
B-To attend the exhibition with someone
who couldn't go with Carol today.
C-To go with their aunt, who is in town
this week.
Writing: Write a paragraph about your favorite piece
of art. Tell us the name, who created it, when was it
released. Also, what does it represent? What type of
art is it? What does it make you feel? Etc.

• I am going to write about __________. It was

created by ___________ in __________. For
me, it represents ____________ because
_______________ and___________. The artist.
This painting is _______________ When I see
it, I feel___________. For all these reasons
____X_____ is my favorite work of art.