Unit 6 Warm-up

In this unit you will...

Read a museum guide, a magazine article and an extract from a short story.

Listen to descriptions of buildings and paintings and a song.

Talk about paintings, paper art and buildings.

Write notes and a description of a house.

Learn how to use prepositions and relative clauses.

Warm-up

1 Do you know these paintings and their painters? Do you know any other works by these painters? (Introduce these painters and their paintings.)

2 Match some of the Key Words with the paintings.

Example A modern, war, dark colours

Key Words

Style: realistic, abstract, pop, modern

Subject: scenery, people, war

Colours: light/dark, bright, soft

Shapes: round, square, clear

Lines: straight/wavy, hard

3 Listen and identify the paintings.

Tapescript

(1) I definitely think this one's the best. The woman looks so peaceful. It looks like she's keeping a secret and her eyes are almost watching you. Even though the painting is quite dark, it feels like it is full of light.

(2) Personally, I think this one is good. It's got very strong lines and you can almost feel the music. And the colours-they're great-they're really bright. I like abstract paintings because you have to use your own imagination to understand what the painter is trying to do. I think...

(3) This one's my favourite. It shows the horrors of war really well-with the dark, dark colours and the terrible pictures. The lines and shapes are square and hard. They show violence and pain. Look at the horse and the mother with her dead child. It's a very frightening painting because...

(4) Well, I think this one's the best. I really like the bright colours and the clear lines. I love the colour of the water in the swimming pool. The style's strange-it's realistic, but very simple at the