Conversation

Practice each conversation with a partner.

SITUATION 1

Tom is talking to his friend.

Tom: I just got a call from my brother.

Carol: How is he?

Tom: Out of the blue he told me he just got married.

SITUATION 2

Jenny is feeling lonely.

Lucia: You don't look very happy, Jenny.

Jenny: I'm just feeling blue. I guess I feel lonely.

Lucia: Don't feel lonely. I'm your friend! That's why I came to take you out.

SITUATION 3

Nancy is talking to her husband.

Nancy: Let's go to a nice restaurant for supper.

Matt: Is there something special to celebrate?

Nancy: No, but I just finished doing our expenses for the

month, and we're in the black. Let's spend some of our extra money.

On Your Own

Work with a partner. Choose three idioms. Write a short conversation for each idiom. Then act out your conversations.

Discussion

Work with a partner or in a small group. Do the following activities.

1. The idioms in this unit all use color words. What other idioms with color words in English do you know?

2. Are there idioms with colors in your native language? Are any idioms like the ones in English?

3. We use out of the blue when something unexpected happens. Tell a story using this idiom.

IV. Conversation and discussion painting Unit 18* Topical Vocabulary

1. Painters and their craft: a fashionable/self-taught/mature artist, a portrait/landscape painter, to paint from nature/memory/ imagination, to paint mythological/historical subjects, to specialize in portraiture/still life, to portray people/emotions with moving sincerity/with restraint, to depict a person/a scene of common life/the mood of..., to render/interpret the personality of..., to reveal the person's nature, to capture the sitter's vitality/transient expression., to develop one's own style of painting; to conform to the taste of the period, to break with the tradition, to be in advance of one's time, to expose the dark sides of life, to become famous overnight, to die forgotten and penniless.

2. Paintings. Genres: an oil painting, a canvas, a water-colour/ pastel picture; a sketch/study; a family group/ceremonial/intimate portrait, a self-portrait, a shoulder/length/half-length/knee-length/full-length portrait; a landscape, a seascape, a genre/historical painting, a still life, a battle piece, a flower piece, a masterpiece.

3. Composition and drawing: in the foreground/background, in the top/bottom/ left-hand corner; to arrange symmetrically/asymmetrically/in a pyramid/in a vertical format; to divide the picture space diagonally, to define the nearer figures more sharply, to emphasize соntours purposely, to be scarcely discernible, to convey a sense of space, to place the figures against the landscape background, to merge into a single entity, to blend with the landscape, to indicate the sitter's profession, to be represented standing.../sitting., /talking..., to be posed/ silhouetted against an open sky/a classic pillar/the snow; to accentuate smth.

* Використано матеріали підручника: Практический курс английского языка. 3 курс / Под ред. ВД. Аракина.- M.,1999.- C.161-173

4. Colouring. Light and shade effects: subtle/gaudy colouring, to combine form and colour into harmonious unity; brilliant/low-keyed colour scheme, the colour scheme where ... predominate; muted in сolour; the colours may be cool and restful/hot and agitated/soft and delicate/dull, oppressive, harsh; the delicacy of tones may be lost in a reproduction.

5. Impression. Judgement: the picture may be moving, lyrical, romantic, original, and poetic in tone and atmosphere, an exquisite piece of painting, an unsurpassed masterpiece, distinguished by a marvellous sense of colour and composition.

The picture may be dull, crude, chaotic, a colourless daub of paint, obscure and unintelligible, gaudy, depressing, disappointing, cheap and vulgar.