3. Speaking

Do ex. 2, p. 120.

4. Reading and speaking

Do ex. 3, p. 120.

5. Speaking

Do ex. 4, p. 121.

• Practise the new vocabulary.

Find the new words in the descriptions of museums and translate the sentences with them. Fill in the gaps with the new words (Word File p. 121)

1. The Van Gogh Museum will 135 of his paintings. (Display)

2. The curriculum courses in art history. (Include)

3. This dates from the 17th century. (Exhibit)

4. The museum has over 5,000 of historical interest. (Item)

5. The museum a number of original artworks. (Contain)

6. The guidebook a great choice of interesting places which are worth

visiting. (Include)

7. The Van Gogh the world auction price record of $ 82.5m. (Hold)

8. Our new art gallery displayed some unusual last week. (Exhibit)

6. Summary

Would you become really intelligent if you spent a year wandering through museums?

7. Homework

Write a short paragraph about museums in your city.

Цілі: вдосконалювати лексичні навички й навички читання, аудіювання й го­воріння; розвивати логічне мислення; виховувати інтерес і повагу до світо­вих цінностей мистецтва.

Дата

Procedure

1. Warm-up

1. Have you ever gone to an exhibition?

2. Do you know any art galleries? Are there any in the place where you live?

3. Are you interested in art?

4. In your opinion, is art an important part of culture?

2. Grammar practice

Do ex. 1, 2, p. 123.

3. Reading

Do ex. 3, p. 123.

Key: 1 outstanding; 2 created; 3 painted; 4 observation; 5 portraitist;

6. representatives; 7 well-known; 8 masters; 9 impressionists; 10 country­side; 11 contain; 12 landscape; 13 sitter; 14 painting.

4. Speaking

Do ex. 4, p. 124.

FACT CARDS

Sir Joshua Reynolds

• was born in Devonshire in 1723.

• a portrait painter

• the most prominent figure in the English school of painting

• one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy

• promoted the «Grand Style» in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect

• died in 1792 and buried, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England

Sir Thomas Lawrence

• was born in Bristol in 1769

• English painter

• in 1794 he was a Royal Academician, and he became the fashionable portrait painter of the age

• had all the qualities of personal manner and among English portrait painters he takes a high place

• president of the Academy from 1820 to his death

• died in 1830 in London

Thomas Gainsborough

• was born in Suffolk in 1727.

• one of the great masters of 18th-century portraiture and landscape paint­ing.

• painted fancy pictures of scenes of the rural poor

• in 1768 Gainsborough became one of the founders of the Royal Academy

• after 1784 Gainsborough refused to exhibit at the Royal Academy, and in­stead, created his own showings at his London house in Pall Mall.

• produced about 200 landscapes and about 800 portraits of the English aristocracy.

• died in 1788 and buried, St. Anne Churchyard, Kew, London, England

John Constable

• an English landscape painter

• was born in Suffolk in 1776

• in 1799 was send to the Royal Academy in London to study art.

• loved the countryside, and his best work was of outdoor scenes in his native Suffolk and his London home in Hampstead

• found the success in France where his 1821 master work The Haywain was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1824.

• died in 1837 and buried, St. John-at-Hampstead Churchyard, London, Eng­land