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Part I. Check yourself. Do you know these words on the topic 'Art'?

Cartoonist, compose, dancer, draw, instrument, novelist, perform,performance, playwright, screenplay, sculpture, songwriter, statue

Complete the sentences.

Musician plays a / an ...

Dancer ... a dance

Actor appears in a play or ...

Painter paints or ... pictures

Sculptor sculpts / creates/ makes ...

Composer composes or ... music

... writes songs

Scriptwriter writes...

Cartoonist draws ...

Part 2 Complete the text. Choose the right variant

My Favourite Piece of Art.

My favourite painter is Georges Seurat. He was ... on December 2, 1859, in Paris, France.

That's why it is not ... that my favourite picture is one of the most well-known pictures by this painter. There is even a stage musical based on the picture, composed in 1984 by Stephen Sondheim.

This picture is ... Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte.

This picture , ... between 1884 and 1886, is made of thousands of tiny dots of colour.

Seurat belived that this form of painting, now ... as pointillist, would make the colours more brilliant

It shows Parisians ... beside a lake on a sunny afternoon.

In the foreground, there is a woman on the right ... a black top and a grey skirt. She is holding a black parasol.

On the left, there is a man in casual clothes ... on the grass. He is smoking a pipe.

In the middle of the picture, there is a tall woman ... by a small girl in a white dress.

Several people, ... in thought, are gazing across the water.

All the young men and women in the picture appear as graceful as the sailing boats ... in the water.

I like this picture because when I ... at this real masterpiece I feel joy and pacification.