Card # 18

LISTENING (7 minutes)

Task 1. Listen to the text [T.18] Art and artist and complete the test

(listening- 2 minutes, time for fulfillment – 1 min., for checking – 1min.).

#		true	false
1	Her favorite time of day for painting is sunrise
2	Patricia says that it is not hard to travel and paint
3	Patricia loves to paint in ancient cities, the older cites
4	Patricia doesn’t like any kind of art

Task 2. Retell the main idea of the text. (time for preparation – 2 min., time for answer - 1 min.)

SPEAKING (10 minutes)

Task 1. Discuss Why do you think some people continue bad habits when they know that they are damaging to their health? (time for preparation - 2min., time for answer - 2min.)

Task 2. Give your opinion on the below given citation: “Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”  ― W. Somerset Maugham. (time for preparation -5 min., time for answer -1 min.)

READING (9 minutes)

Task 1. Read the text (silent reading – 1 min., reading aloud – 2 min.)

Make a plan to the text (time for preparation- 1 min., time for answering- 1 min.).

Vincent van Gogh Paintings

Between November of 1881 and July of 1890, Vincent van Gogh painted almost 900 paintings. Since his death, he has become one of the most famous painters in the world. Van Gogh’s paintings have captured the minds and hearts of millions of art lovers and have made art lovers of those new to world of art. The following excerpts are from letters that Van Gogh wrote expressing how he evolved as a painter.

In December of 1881, at the age of 28 just as he began his first paintings Vincent wrote to his brother Theo about becoming a painter. “Theo, I am so very happy with my paintbox, and I think my getting it now, after having drawn almost exclusively for at least a year, better than if I had started with it immediately…

For, Theo, with painting my real career begins. Don't you think I am right to consider it so?”

Van Gogh worked at a feverish pace costing him money, causing him mental and physical stress and leaving him no time for any other source of income. But he was persistent. In a letter from March of 1882, Van Gogh wrote again to his brother Theo,

“Although I find myself in financial difficulties, I nevertheless have the feeling that there is nothing more solid than a `handicraft' in the literal sense of working with one's hands. If you became a painter, one of the things that would surprise you is that painting and everything connected with it is quite hard work in physical terms. Leaving aside the mental exertion, the hard thought, it demands considerable physical effort, and that day after day.”

In the same letter to Theo from 1882, Van Gogh writes, “There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it: how to do it - with much drawing and little color; how not to do it - with much color and little drawing.

Task 2. Translate the 2-nd paragraph of the text (time for preparation- 3 min., time for answering - 1 min.).

WRITING (14 minutes)

Task 1. Write a comparative essay to the given topic “How do Internet affect people?” (100 words).

(time for preparation -13 min., time for answer -1min.)