Module 4 Fine Arts---Western, Chinese and Pop

Arts •Listening and Vocabulary

•Everyday English

•Writing

Listening and vocabulary

1.You’ve got it right.

2.Don’t change a thing.

3.I’m not half as good as you.

4.What do you make of it?

5.There’s an exhibition on.

6.Thanks for the compliment.

When you are listening, pay your attention to these sentences. Try to get the meanings of them.

1. exhibit exhibition

2. express expression

3. landscape scene scenery

4. oil painting watercolor (painting) portrait

5.real reality realise realistic

6.suggest suggestion

Warming-up: Do you know the meanings of these words?

Look at these two pictures. Can you describe them?

A boy and a girl are talking. Let’s look at what they are discussing?

1 What are the boy and girl discussing?

The boy’s portrait of Paul./ Visiting an art gallery / Likes and dislikes

2 Which picture is the boy painting, picture 1 or picture 2? Say how you know this.

Picture 2. Because the girl mentions the light coming through the window.

3 Why does the girl say sorry at the end of the conversation?

Because she thought the picture was of Mike while it’s of Paul.

Listen to the conversation. Complete these sentences.

1. The girl likes the portrait because

____________________________

__________.

2. The girl thinks that the light ______

________________________________.

It’s realistic. It has the right

expression.

coming

in through the window is very good

3. The boy is really fond of _________.

4. The girl is better at ___________ than

________.

5. The boy suggests ___________________.

6. The boy likes _____________ more than

_____________.

7. The girl has not recognised ____________

_______________________.

painting

drawing

painting

going to an art gallery

oil paintings

watercolours

that it is a

picture of Paul, not Mike