‘THE WONDERS OF PAINTING’
Objectives:
- to practice students in speaking and listening on the topic;
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Grammar: Conditionals II.
The lesson of developing speaking skills.
Material: a presentation of reproductions of paintings, sculptures and masterpieces of architectural art; recording of musical works; handouts; recording “Bridge to English”
(Intense Educational Ltd Uk), cards depicting paintings by famous artists.
Procedure:
Greeting.
The topic of our lesson is "The Wonders of Painting". We'll talk about art and artists. You will express your feelings and thoughts the art evokes in you. We'll revise and practice the usage of Conditionals II. By the end of the lesson you will be able to make oral reports about your favourite painters and pictures.
Warming-up.
T.: I want to start our lesson with the presentation of pictures . Watch it, admire it, and you will find yourselves in an aura of good, light and kindness. While watching choose the words given in the box which describe everything you see.
(Music by J. Last-Lonesome Shepherd)
(Students are watching a selection of reproductions of famous artists from around the world, sculptures and masterpieces of architectural art)
reproduction, masterpiece, literature, gallery, painting, cartoon, theatre, architecture, ballet, novel, drama, sculpture, exhibition, pottery, museum
T: Read the words you have written down.
( Reproduction, masterpiece, painting, architecture, sculpture).
T: Let’s talk about painting, architecture and sculpture - the things which generally come under the heading of the arts .
What are your impressions of the presentation you have seen? How do you understand the proverb 'Art is Power'? Why is Art so powerful? You may use the following expressions:
Elicitation
I agree with my friend that art is like the music.
The Main Body of the Lesson.
Now, we'll speak about the genres in painting. Match the genre with the picture.
Speaking. Brain Storming.
Grammar Point. Conditionals II.
If you were an artist what type of genre would you choose and why?
If I were an artist I would……
Role-play. Situation 1.
Imagine the situation. You are in Kyiv and have an opportunity to visit a picture gallery. Act out the situation.
- I'd like to visit the picture gallery. And what about you?
- Oh, I'd gladly go with you. What gallery would you like to visit?
- I'd like to visit the National Art Museum. I've never been there.
- Do you know where it is?
- Certainly. It is 6, Hrushevskyi Street.
- What do they display?
- I don't know. But we can ring them up.
- Hello! Is this the National Art Museum?
- Yes, it is. I'm listening to you. You are displaying Oleksa Novakivskyi, aren't
you?
- Yes, we are. You are welcome.
- Are you open today?
- Yes, we are. We work from 10 a.m to 6 p.m.
- Thank you.
T.: Such painters of Ukrainian origin as Repin, I. Kramskoi, A. Kuindgi, O. Murashko, M. Pymonenko and many others are well-known not only in Ukraine but also all over the world. We should remember T. Shevchenko who devoted most of his pictures to Ukraine and its people and is considered to be the father of modern Ukrainian painting.
Situation 2.
You are in the National Art Gallery and see the pictures of Ukrainian artists. Express the praise or criticism of their paintings. Match the responses.
1.- What a still-life. It has such an ungainly look.
2.-Don't you find this picture by M. Pymonenko wonderful?
3.- Are you impressed by this portrait of Kateryna Bilokur?
4.- I'm greatly impressed by the landscapes of T. Yablons'ka.
5. – What a dull picture! There’s no colour in it. |
a. -Oh, yes I'm so excited and interested.
b.-Her landscapes are full of loneliness and sadness.
c. Yes, it's lopsided and crude.
d.- Oh, yes, I'm so excited and interested that any words are powerless to express my feelings... e.-That's a dull picture?! Why, it's beautiful, it's perfect, if it had any more colour it would be wrong.
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Listening.
T.: Listen to the dialogue. Be ready to unscramble the sentences and put responses
in the correct order. Act out the dialogue.
Students’ Project Presentations:
“My Favourite Painter”, “The Painting I Admire”.
Turner painted in a style absolutely outside his own time -perhaps the first great artist to do so. Even exhibited pictures like "Rain". "Steam and Speed", "The Fighting Temeraire", "Calois Pier", "Off the Needles", "Sun Rising Through Vapour" have no relation to anything that was being done in Europe, or was to be done for almost a century. He anticipated something of the method and techniques of the French Impressionists who followed Turner's work a generation later.
2. I want to tell you about Van Gogh. Nobody has ever painted cornfields or sunflowers like Van Gogh. His paintings are full of colour and sunlight. Today his paintings are worth millions of pounds but in his lifetime he only sold one.
Van Gogh was born in Holland in 1853. He did not start painting until he was twenty-seven, ten years before he died. Before becoming a painter, he was a teacher, art dealer and a church preacher. In 1886 he left Holland and joined his younger brother. Theo, who was working in Paris at the time. After living there for two years, he moved to the warmer climate of Arles in the south of France. Here he painted some of his most famous pictures However, Van Gogh was mentally ill During one of his madness he attacked, the artist Paul Gauguin. In another fit of madness van Gogh cut off part of his own ear. Eventually he went into a mental hospital but he did not get any better. Finally, on Sunday 27th July 1890, in the small village of Auvers, north of Paris, Vincent Van Gogh took a gun, went into a cornfield and shot himself When his brother Theo arrived, he said: "I hope I did it properly Thirty-six hours later van Gogh died in his brother's arms. His last words were La tristesse durera.' (The sadness will continue).
Сomprehension Task. Answer the questions.
Wrap Up.
Remember: “A true artist is not one who is inspired but one who inspires others”.
Salvador Dalí
T.: Choose any card with a picture. Write your name on the card. Identify the genre of painting depicted in the picture and write some words to express your feelings and thoughts this picture evokes in you.
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