Видео-урок

 Plastic art http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/witn/ep-150826

Before watching Task 1 Answer the questions:

1.   Do you enjoy the art?

2.   How do you imagine plastic art?

3.   What equipment does the artist need for this art?

4.   What do you think are there a lot of artists who use this plastic art?

5.   Can you guess in what country this art was born?

 

Task 2 Match the words in italics to the definitions below:

Melted                                using waste materials again

Canvas                               (here) unusual and not made anywhere else

Afford                                 have enough money

Unique                                thick and strong cotton cloth that artists paint on with oil paints

Recycling                           made soft or made into a liquid

While listening Task 1

How many times the word “plastic” is used in the text?

Your answer:_________________

Тask 2 Listen the speaker and fill in the gaps the missing information, check your answers with the whole class:

An art studio with no brushes or paint. 

Mbongeni Buthelezi uses strips of plastic …… and glued to the …… for his……..

When the South African studied art he couldn’t …… to buy expensive materials. So he found an ………and now produces this ……. kind of art.

He collects plastic bags from the streets around his Johannesburg …….and has turned ……. into an art form.

           Тask 3 Read the statements below and say whether they are true or false. If the statements are false, correct them.

1.    This art requires a brush –

2.    Mbongeni Buthelezi uses the technique of melted plastic –

3.    Mbongeni Buthelezi is a South American –

4.    He collects plastic bags –

5.    He collects his materials from the street around park –

After listening Task 1  Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from news reports.

Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence correctly.

melted / canvas / afford / unique / recycling

1. Many of Kolkata's old buildings reflect diverse European architectural styles that in time became imbued with Bengali and Marwari (or classical Rajasthani) influences, creating a blend of Indo-European design, __________ to the city.

2. Stronger powers to fine people for not _________ may be the only way to hit a zero landfill waste target by 2050, the body representing Welsh councils said.

3. A portrait artist has been working on an unusual _________ - his pregnant wife's bump. Alex Makwana's labour of love has seen him create 11 designs on Jo's stomach, including Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear and a mocked-up ultrasound scan.

4. Thousands of guns are seized in the UK every year. Most are destroyed by police, but a new project in the north of England, Guns to Goods, is trying to put them to good use. 

The idea is to __________ the guns down to make metal tags for T-shirts and also create artworks to be sold to the public.

5. Kenya's Supreme Court has said that the government should abide by a lower court's decision to give teachers a pay rise of at least 50%. The teachers' pay body had argued that it cannot __________ the increase awarded by the industrial court.

Answers:

1.   Unique

2.   Recycling

3.   Canvas

4.   Melt

5.   Afford

 

                                                        Homework: Writing activity

You need to write an essay “Unique art” and tell us about interesting art

1) when it was born

2)who invented

3)what is unique