Language Snippets - Vegetables

NI- C: Tuesday 4 October 2016

Summary of the class:

- Grammar: Present Simple and Present Continuous

- Writing: Restaurant review

- Speaking: Interaction


- Listening: Review

- Speaking: Differences


Homework:

Write a restaurant review, using the examples in the worksheet as models

B2. Listening: The Third of May by Francisco de Goya

Watch the video and answer the questions:

1. How big is the painting?
2. What does the painting depict?
3. How does the narrator describe the following elements in the painting?
1. The soldiers:
2. The central figure:
3. The other men:
4. The line of men:
5. The monk:
6. The woman:
7. The setting:

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Now watch the video about the painting's analysis and answer the questions:

What is the mood according to the narrator?

What does she say about the colours?

What is chiaroscuro? Where can it be seen?

Complete the sentences:

The central figure is the ___________________

The implied lines of the rifles __________________ to the central figure

The line is reiterated in the __________________ and the pants of the man. 

There is a line in the sand o_____________ and _______________

The French soldiers almost look like ____________________

The French soldiers turn away from the viewer. We don’t know what they __________________

We can see into the faces of the Spanish countrymen. We can see ____________, we can see _____________, we can see __________________

What does she say about the texture of the French soldiers and the Spanish    countrymen?

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Language Snippets - Arts and Crafts

NA2 - Monday 3rd October 2016

Summary of the class:

- Speaking: Interaction


- Speaking: Art

- Vocabulary: Art and painting

- Speaking: Description of paintings

- Listening: Mr and Mrs Clark

NIC. B1- Grammar: Present Simple and Present Continuous

Click on the following links to do some more practice on present simple and continuous:

- Activity 1

- Activity 2

Language Snippets - Food and drink