Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary

Exercise 1: Pronounce the words below. Match a word with a picture (not all the pictures have their names!)

Plate 3

The Renaissance Art __

1. Renaissance church __

2. drum __

3. lantern __

4. pilaster (engaged pillar) __

5. Renaissance palace __

6. cornice __

7. pedimental window __

8. pedimental window with round gable __

sarcophagus _

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Plate 6

Historical Costumes

1. German dressed in the Spanish style [ca. 1575] ___

2. wide-brimmed cap ___

3. short cloak (Spanish cloak, short cape) ___

4. woman of Basle [ca. 1525] ___

5. overgown (gown) ___

6. undergown (petticoat) ___

7. woman of Nuremberg [ca. 1500] ___

8. shoulder cape ___

9. Augsburg patrician lady [ca. 1575] ___

10. puffed sleeve ___

11. overgown (gown, open gown, sleeveless gown) ___

Exercise 2: Developing spelling skills. Fill in the missing vowels and group the words into columns according to the sound the vowels give.

Incr - - se, w - - lth, bel - - f, h - - ven, fr - - nd, pr - - ch, engin - - r, r - - l, m - - ning, b - - lder, tr - -, br - - th, r - - son, est - - m, h - - d, - - rly, - - rth, ach - - ve, disapp- - r, wr - - th, id - - , gr - - t, f - - th, l - - rn, p - -nt.

Exercise 3: Derivatives. With the help of the given suffixes form as many new words as you can. Sometimes you need to change the spelling of the word a little.

Words:

length	power	observe	art	adore
adventure	expense	human	great	popular
worth	youth	culture	individual	time
wealth	employ	like	awkward	geometry

Suffixes:

-y	-ous	-ism	-ness	-ity
-less	-er	-ist	-ment	-ee
-ful	-ive	-al	-tion	-ly

Exercise 4: To enumerate things, actions, qualities or ideas and to give examples we use the expression such as. Find the proper place for it in the following sentences.

1. Soon this renewed interest in learning grew to include other fields: science, history, education, political science and art.

2. New theories were tested as explorers (Columbus, for example) embarked on daring journeys.

3. Artists Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo helped all artists to move from their status of anonymous craftsmen to that of respected educated people.

4. Leonardo, who was a universal man, had many occupations: an artist, architect, musician, engineer, scientist, inventor and diplomat.

5. In this Renaissance painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds, you will find a summary of the aspects of the Renaissance: anatomy, perspective, classicism, and an interest in learning.

Exercise 5: Sometimes we begin the sentence not with the subject, but with the time or place of the action or description to emphasize its importance and to draw the listeners’ attention to it. Find the suitable beginning for each sentence.

By the 15th century In Italy In this Renaissance painting In this fresco by Raphael As time passed

The Greek and Roman past emerged once again to reflect its meaning in the sunlight of a new age. The Greek and Roman past had never fully disappeared. The growing confidence of Renaissance man was reflected in the changing forms of his art. Triumphal arches frame the figures below. Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, is placing a laurel wreath on the head of a centaur.