Материал из серии "Spoken english for artists"

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AT THE GALLERY

Thank you everyone for coming tonight. My name is Christine Mathews and I've curated this exhibition of contemporary artwork by local artists. I hope you all enjoy yourself at this artist's meeting, and good luck at the opening of the exhibition tomorrow!

Mark: Hey, how's it going? I'm Mark.

Peter: Hi, Mark. My name's Peter. Are you a painter?

Mark: No, I'm a potter.

Sarah: It's nice to meet you. I'm Sarah. I'm a painter!

Karen: Hi, how are you doing? I'm Karen. I make sculptures in paper.

John: How's it going Karen? I'm John. I'm a lithographer.

Karen: Oh, is that your work over there? I really like that print!

John: Yes, it is. Thank you.

Michael: Hi, I'm Michael. I'm a metalsmith.

Maureen: Hello Michael. My name's Maureen. Is that your sculpture over there? Michael: No, I don't have any work in this exhibition.

Penny: Hey, my name is Penny. I work with stained glass.

Adrienne: Hello Penny. I teach ceramics. My name's Adrienne.

Jean: Hi Adrienne, I'm Jean. I share a studio with Penny.

Adrienne: Well, it's a pleasure to meet you both!

Introduce

Review these expressions:

Hi/Hey/Hello It's a pleasure to meet you. / It's nice to meet you (too).

How are you (doing)? / I'm fine. How are you (doing)? How's it going? / It's going well.

What's up?/Not much./Nothing much. (How about) you?

(paint portraits). I'm a (painter). / Are you a (painter)?

Vocabulary in this Lesson

Application

Answer these questions.

1. When is the opening of the exhibition?

2. Is Mark a painter?

3. What does Sarah do?

4. What does Michael do? Does he have a sculpture in this exhibition?

5. Does Karen do lithography?

6. What medium does Penny work with?

7. Where is Jean's studio?

Practice introducing yourself. Introduce another artist.

Writing Exercise

Read about Christine Mathews, Adrienne and Mark

Christine Mathews is a curator at the city Museum. She doesn't make art, but she loves art. She collects artwork by local artists and shows it at the museum.

Adrienne is a (ceramicist/potter) and a ceramics instructor. She has a studio in the city and she has a lot of students.

Mark is a policeman. As a hobby, he studies pottery. He is a student at Adrienne's studio.

Write the answer to these questions about Christine Mathews, Adrienne and Mark.

1. Is Christine Mathews an artist? What does she do? Where does she work?

2. Is Adrienne a potter? Does she also have another job? Where does she work?

3. Is Mark a potter? What does he do?

Write a about yourself and then about another artist you know. Answer these questions.

1. Are you an artist? Is he/she and artist?

2. What do you do? What do they do?

3. Choose an artist from history, or one you know, and introduce them to your classmate.

4. Choose an artist from history, or one you know, but don't tell your classmate.

Ask questions to guess which artist your classmate chose.

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AT THE CERAMICS STUDIO

Adrienne is a ceramics instructor. Every morning she walks to her studio. She cleans and prepares for her classes. She always sweeps the floor and washes the tables and pottery wheels. Sometimes, she unloads and loads the kin. She usually wedges the new clay und stirs the glazes. Every weekend she fires the kiln.

Adrienne keeps the ceramics tools in a large cabinet, but before her class arrives, she washes all of the sponges and brushes. Then, she places the ceramic tools on the table. She fills pails with clean water and puts them next to the pottery wheels.

Linda is a student in Adrienne's pottery class.

Mark is also a student at the ceramics studio, but he never uses the wheel Mark builds vessels using slabs and coils of clay. He usually uses a rolling pin, to flatten the day and a knife to cut shapes.

Sometimes, Mark uses a loop tool and a needle tool to carve decoration in the surface of these shapes. Then, he uses a sponge to wet the edges. He attaches the edges with slurry. After he constructs a place, he always lets it dry completely, before Adrienne louds it into the kiln.

Grammar Patterns

Present Simple Tense and Adverbs of Frequency

subject + adverb of frequency + verb

adverb of frequency + subject + verb

Vocabulary in this lesson

Application

Use the present simple and adverbs of frequency to talk about what you usually do. Ask each other questions about your morning/work/studio) routines. Describe your art-making process. Do you often (paint/throw pottery/sculpt/design something)?

Writing Exercise

Answer these questions about Mark and Adrienne.

1. Where does Adrienne work?

2. How does Adrienne get to work?

3. What does Adrienne do before her class arrives?

4. Does Mark teach ceramics?

5. Does Mark use the pottery wheel?

6. What does Mark build?

7. How does Mark build vessels?

Write questions using these words.

Example: stay up late/you/often -- Do you often stay up late?

1. visit/you/museums/usually

2. go shopping/you/how often

3. regularly/draw/you

4. you/every evening/dinner/cook

5. take photographs/ you /frequently

6. eggs/you/breakfast

7. you/a paint brush/use/how often

8. video games/everyday

9. party/go to/you

Write an answer to each question.

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FOUND ART / ASSEMBLAGE SCULPTURE

Jim made an assemblage sculpture about his hometown.

He found an old window frame, a table and two chairs in his garage. He sanded the wood. He took the glass out of the window frame. He cut the table into pieces and attached them to the frame. He bought a wooden duck at an antique store, then he sanded and painted it. He gathered sticks from his backyard and twisted them into a circle to make them into a nest. He glued the duck into the nest, then attached it to the top of the frame. He attached the rest of the sticks to the bottom of frame.

Maureen also made a found-object sculpture.

She bought a mannequin from a department store and took it apart. She had an old office chair in her attic and she used the bottom of it. She recycled some cast iron pieces from her grill and attached them as shelves. Then, she balanced the mannequin on the shelves.

Vocabulary in this Lesson

Application

Use the words below each image and vocabulary from this lesson to practice describing how you think that the artist made each assemblage sculpture.

Bottle, feather, map, shell Stamp, picture of a pocket watch, wooden balls, pipe

Describe (Christmas/new year's/your birthday last year).

Ask each other these questions:

1. Where did you go?

2. Who was there?

3. What did you do?

4. Did you wear a (suit/dress/bathing suit)?

5. Do you usually do (that)?

Writing Exercise

Write an answer to these questions,

1. What did your classmate do (Christmas/New Year's/their birthday)?

2. What did you do (yesterday/last weekend/last summer)?

Describe how you made a recent work of art.

What happened? Put the sentences below in order, to describe the picture.

A. Sarah's mom was startled and spilled her coffee,

8. The wind blew through the window.

C. Sarah stacked the cups on the floor.

D. The coffee stained her dress!

E. Sarah found some plastic cups in the cupboard,

F. The puppy was surprised and barked.

G. The tower fell down.