Teacher of English Nataliya Nazarenko

Topic:  Famous paintings

Aims:

- To help students describe well-known paintings

- To develop students’ listening and writing skills

- To expand students’ vocabulary

Outcomes: by the end of the lesson Ss will have been able to understand and use the lexical items for making personal description of the paintings 

Materials: projector, computer, work-sheets, pictures of well-known paintings

Type: PPP

Procedure

I.              Introduction

Good afternoon, children. Today we are going to talk about art. By the end of the lesson you will be able to understand and use the lexical items for making personal description of the paintings 

II.            Lead in

Do you know any famous paintings? What do you think is the most famous painting in the world? We’ll get to know.

III.           Main part. Logically Sequence Activities.

Let’s talk about most famous paintings.

Task 1:

In exercise A  There is a list of paintings.

Identify the artists in pairs. The pictures in exercise A are the best five paintings in the world according to a website found through Google.

Have you seen any of these paintings. In a gallery, on a poster, postcards?

Which do you like or dislike? (2 min.)

1. Mona Lisa - L_______ d_______ V______

2. The Scream - E_______ M_______

3. Sunflowers - V_______ V_______ G_______

4. Guernica - P_______ P_______

5. Poppies in a Field - C_______ M_______

A: 1 Leonardo da Vinci, 2 Edward Munch, 3 Vincent Van Gogh, 4 Pablo Picasso, 5

Claude Monet

Exercise B  Read the description of the paintings. Write the names of these paintings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Are all the words familiar to you? What does “Still life” mean (a painting of fruit, flowers)

“Enigmatic” – strange, mysterious

“Anguish” - pain, suffering

“Embodiment” -picture, image

1____Sunflowers__This still life painting of flowers in a vase is one of the artist’s most recognizable works.

2 _______________The enigmatic smile of this portrait has captured the imagination of the world. It has been stolen twice and now it is displayed in the Louvre, Paris.

3 _______________This landscape shows how the Impressionists depict the beauty

and simplicity of nature.

4 _______________ This is an abstract painting that symbolizes the anguish and pain

of modern life.

5 _______________ This monochrome painting has become a reminder of the

tragedies of war, an anti-war symbol, and an embodiment of peace. The painter is

famous for his cubist style.

A: 2 Mona Lisa, 3 Poppies in a Field, 4 The Scream, 5 Guernica

Look at the screen and enjoy the paintings we are talking about.

Exercise C Match the underlined words in task B with the definitions. individually

1 Not realistic __abstract_

2 A picture showing an expanse of scenery. ___________

3 Painters who used color to capture the feeling of a scene rather than specific details. __________

4 Of one color or shades of one color __________

5 Picture of a person __________

6 A style of art that depicts objects as geometric shapes that are seen from many different angles at the same time __________

7 A picture of inanimate everyday objects __________

Compare answers in pairs.  (3 min)

A: 2 landscape, 3 Impressionists, 4 monochrome, 5 portrait, 6 cubist, 7 still life

Task 2: Mystery painting.

Listen to the description. I identify which painting from task 1 is described? (The Scream).

Listen the recording again and take notes. Then join into groups to recreate the text from your notes. Ss do not have to use exactly the same words but writing must have the same meaning and be accurate.

Then one S reads the whole text others check their writing. While reading, complete this description with the correct words and phrases in the box:

(background left-hand side looks like seems to be there are there is)

Text is on the screen.

In the foreground 1 __________ a man standing on a bridge. He 2__________ he is

screaming. His face is expressing surprise and fear. His mouth is open in an ‘O’ shape,

his eyes are wide open and his hands are on his bald head. In the 3__________, on

the 4__________, 5__________ two people walking towards him but they don’t look

worried. The sky is blood red and beneath the bridge, a blue river 6__________

  flowing to the sea.

A: 1 there is, 2 looks like, 3 background, 4 left-hand side, 5 there are, 6 seems to be

Lets focus on the following: explain the differences between:

foreground and background (at the front and back in the painting)

There is and there are (singular and plural / ‘there is’ is also used with uncountable

nouns, e.g., there is some grass in the foreground)

Left-hand side and right-hand side (on the left and on the right)

Looks like and seems to be (very similar meanings but looks like is followed by a

noun/noun phrase)

Now in groups choose any painting you want and write a short description of it. You could choose one from Task 1 or those you talked about at Art Culture lessons. Use words and

expressions from this lesson.

Present what you have.

Task 3: My top fives

 Do you remember the top five paintings?  Let’s talk about other top 5s and make a table. Write holiday destinations on the board and ask for suggestions for the best, then second best, etc.

holiday locations.

Task 3. In pairs make your own top five lists (they can invent a category for the final column, e.g., food, songs, films, politicians, actors).

You could write your top five songs (or films etc.) on the poster to demonstrate

the activity. Put pairs into small groups to compare their lists.

Choose a representative from each group to tell the class how their lists were

similar or different. Task 3 to display in the classroom.

So as we see the most popular  five categories are :..

Summing-up

It’s almost the end, that’s why I’d like to come back to the outcomes of our lesson. Let’s comment on what we know now and what we can do after this lesson.

Students read the lesson goals and say what new information they got to know during the lesson, what knowledge they can use in everyday life.

 Brilliant. I hope you can do everything you’ve said. The only thing left is your home task, which is to write your own description of a painting. The optional home task up to you is to find a video in the internet (YouTube) about 10 most expensive paintings and be ready to comment on it at the next lesson.

The home task is written on the blackboard. Students put it down in their day-books.

Thank you all very much. You’ve done a good job today. Your marks will be ........ for ........ because.

The teacher comments (motivates) students’ marks.

Thank you and good-bye!