The World of Art

Form 10

   Theme: The World of Art

Objectives: 

practical

• to activate the lexical material on the topic and familiarize with new words
• to develop listening, reading, speaking and writing  skills 
• practice in using of new words in oral speech and in writing
• to develop the skills of dialogical speech 
• to teach to talk art

• to widen pupils knowledge to the topic

educational
•  to acquaint students with the genres of painting
• to expand students ' knowledge about the methods of painting

• to respect each other’s opinions and tastes

developing

• to develop skills of social competence
• to develop linguistic supposition, and speech reaction
• to develop skills of working in pairs 
• to develop skills of independent work with a dictionary
• to develop positive attitude towards the world of art

  

Equipment:  cards, teacher’s presentation, slogans, a computer

                                                                                  Epigraph.

To send light into the darkness                                            of mens  hearts – such is the duty of the artist.

Shumann.

                                           Procedure

I. Introduction.

1. Greeting.

– Glad to see you! You are fine today, aren`t you? Today we are going to speak about  beauty of our world expressed in paintings. Hippocrates said:”Ars longa, vita brevis” which means: life is short, art is longer. Do you agree with Hippocrates? What is art? One of the definitions of the word art is the study or creation of beautiful things.

II.Warming-up.

Let`s make a mind-map about genres and methods of painting.

III. Main part.

1.Vocabulary activity.

– Now  let`s work with our vocabulary. Speaking about art we need to know a lot of words (adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs etc.) which help us to describe works of arts and their creators. So, name the synonyms to the given words or continue the row:

master… (painter, artist, portraitist, landscapist, seascapist, creator…)

prominent… (famoutstanding, well-known, brilliant, remarkable…)

render… (depict, paint, create, show, represent, reflect, portray, impact…)

impressive…( talented, remarkable, grand, magnificent…)

profoundly…(deeply, truthfully, sensitively, brightly, clearly…)

    2. Pair work.

    There are some proverbs and saying about art and beauty, because this topic is very important for people. On your desks you can see some proverbs and saying. Try to find Ukrainian equivalent.

    Beauty is but skin-deep 
Краса лише зверху. Змiст:зовнiшнiсть оманлива,краса недовговiчна.. Порiвняйте; З лиця воду не пити. Краса придивиться,а розум  придасться.

    Blind men can judge no colours 
Слiпi про кольори судити не можуть. Порiвняйте;Слiпiй курцi  все  пшениця.

    Tarred with the same brush 
Одним й Тим же пензлем мазанi.. Порiвняйте:. Одним миром мазанi. Iз одного тiста зробленi.

    The devil is not so black as he is painted 

Не такий страшний чорт, як його малюють.

     That's a horse of another color 
Цей кiнь iншоi  мастi. Це зовсiм iнша справа. Ось   це вже з другоi опери.

3.Listening.

The Painter

On 25 October 1881 a little boy was born in Malaga, Spain. It was a difficult birth and to help him breathe, cigar smoke was blown into his nose! But despite being the youngest ever smoker, this baby grew up to be one of the 20th century's greatest painters - Pablo Picasso.

Picasso showed his truly exceptional talent from a very young age. His first word was lapiz (Spanish for pencil) and he learned to draw before he could talk. He was the only son in the family and very good-looking, so he was thoroughly spoilt. He hated school and often refused to go unless his doting parents allowed him to take one of his father's pet pigeons with him!

Apart from pigeons, his great love was art, and when in 1891 his father, who was an amateur artist, got a job as a drawing teacher at a college, Pablo went with him to the college. He often watched his father paint and sometimes was allowed to help. One evening his father was painting a picture of their pigeons when he had to leave the room. He returned to find that Pablo had completed the picture, and it was so amazingly beautiful and lifelike that he gave his son his own palette and brushes and never painted again. Pablo was just 13.

From then onwards there was no stopping him. Many people realized that he was a genius but he disappointed those who wanted him to become a traditional painter. He was always breaking the rules of artistic tradition and shocked the public with his strange and powerful pictures. He is probably best known for his "Cubist" pictures, which used only simple geometric shapes.

Picasso created over 6000 paintings, drawings and sculptures. Today a "Picasso" costs several million pounds. Once, when the French Minister of Culture was visiting Picasso, the artist accidentally spilt some paint on the Minister's trousers. Picasso apologized and wanted to pay for them to be cleaned but the Minister said, "No! Please, Monsieur Picasso, just sign my trousers!" Picasso died of heart failure during an attack of influenza in 1973.

-Post-listening activity.

Mark + if the statement is true, - if it is false.

1. A little boy was born on 25 October 1884.
2. It was not a difficult birth.
3. Pablo learned to draw before he could talk.
4. He liked school.
5. His great love was art and pigeons.
6. His father got a job as a drawing teacher in 1891.
7. Pablo wasn't allowed to help his father to paint the pictures.
8. The picture which Pablo completed instead of his father was not so beautiful and lifelike   as his father's.

          9.  Picasso is best known for his "Cubist" pictures.
      10.  Picasso died of pneumonia in 1973.

4.Reading.

a)Presentation about English painters.

– Pupils look at the screen.There is some information about famous British painters.Your task is to listen and to read this text.

b)While-reading.

c)Post-reading activity.

. - Match the information with the painter`s names

A	the first President of the Royal Academy of Arts the founder of the academic principles of the "British school" outstanding portraitist of the 18th century In his pictures he did not only paint portraits but produced characters.	Sir Joshua Reynolds
B	His  business was to paint the light. He proved that with the help of light it is, possible to show qualities of any subject Son of a London barber, he started drawing and painting when he was a little boy. He was a representative of Romanticism. In his late works he anticipated in some degree the practice of  expressionists of the 20th.	Joseph Turner
C	raised English pictorial art to a high level of importance He was the first English painter who brought painting closer to literature and theatre. He proclaimed himself a "Comic History Painter" “The Marriage Contract” is a protest against marriage for money and vanity.	William Hogarth
D	He was the first landscape painter who considered that every painter should make his sketches direct from nature, which is working in the open air. He may truly be considered the father of modern landscape painting	John Constable
E	a brilliant portrait painter he  is the creator of the great English school of landscape painting.	Thomas Gainsborough

5.Speaking.

Group work.

– Now I divide you into 4 gpoups and give a picture to each group.You have to make a short presentation to your paintings.

1 group.

Leonardo Da Vinci  “Mona Lisa”.

2 group.

Pablo Picasso “Girl On The Ball”.

3 group.

William Turner “Shipreck”.

4 group.

Raphael “Sistine Madonna”.

IV. Summing – up.

– The topic of our today’s conversation was very serious. We have spoken much about painting and we have discussed the topic from different points of view.I’d like to thank you for good work at the lesson. I give excellent marks to..., good – to …, etc.The lesson is over. See you later. Goodbye!

V. Hometask.

– Your task for homework is to make a presentation about your favourite painter.