- •Астраханский государственный технический университет
- •Contents
- •Unit 1. Appearance.
- •General appearance
- •How Important Is Your Appearance?
- •Checkmate.
- •Unit 2. Character and disposition.
- •Character
- •Intellectual ability
- •8. Reveal your attitude to the types of people described.
- •Intelligence.
- •Revealing Faces.
- •Unit 3. Family life topical vicabulary
- •Mr Know-It-All
- •Unit 4. Parents and children
- •The Bell Family Charter
- •The abc’s of Happiness (by r. Vallet)
- •11. Points to ponder.
- •The Sitting of the Teachers’ Council.
- •Unit 5. Friends and friendship
- •Unit 6. Customs and traditions
- •The Field of Folklore
- •2. Discuss the following problem questions.
- •3. Read the short passages and answer the questions giving your impressions to the point.
- •Problems for Discussion.
- •Unit 7. Choosing a career. Jobs and employment.
- •3. Say what job these can belong to. Continue the list.
- •Imagine you are Andrew Foster (ex. 14) and you are looking for a new position. Fill in the job application form below. Job application form Private and Confidential
- •Unit 8. Crime and punishment
- •3. Read the text and comment on it. Methods and Measures.
- •4. Answer the following questions.
- •5.Comment on the following quotations.
- •6. Use the following proverbs in situations of your own. Give Russian equivalents if possible.
- •Unit 9. Man and arts
- •Man and arts. Painting.
- •Impression and judgement
- •Genre paintingis a painting, which represents scenes from everyday life in a more or less realistic way.
- •Man and arts. Music.
- •For or Against Pop Music
- •Man and arts. Theatre.
- •Imagine that you are in London and you have a free evening. You’d like to go to the theatre. Study the information how to book your theatre tickets in London. How to Book Your Theatre Tickets
- •The Green Table.
- •Unit 10. Women and their role in the society.
- •1.Use the proper word.
- •2. Which is the odd word out.
- •3. Complete the following.
- •Sex Roles In America
- •Imagine the life of women in the following century.
- •Unit 11. Mass media
- •Mass media. Television.
- •Major British and American Broadcasting Companies, Networks, News Agencies
- •Television Questionnaire.
- •Mass media. Press.
- •The British and American Press
- •4. Fill in the gaps.
- •Mass media. Internet.
- •The Internet – a Brilliant Source of Information or a Menace to Our Health?
- •Unit 12. Man and nature. Environmental protection.
- •What Must We Care About to Prevent Disaster?
- •Supplement conversational expressions
- •Sources
Unit 9. Man and arts
Warming-up. Answer the following questions.
- What makes good art? Do you think art can be great if it is not linked with the people’s likes, their interests and ideals? Give your reasons.
How does art help us to understand the outside world?
What purposes does true art serve?
Share your opinions: real art appeals to the heart and mind of a man, to his feelings and ideals and it proclaims life. Art is life, pretence of art is death.
True art elevates the mind and the soul of the people.
Man and arts. Painting.
TOPICAL VOCABULARY
Painters and their craft
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-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 capture the sitter’s vitality/ transient expression; -to be in advance of one’s time; -to expose the dark sides of life;
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Paintings and genres
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-an oil painting; -a canvas; -a water colour/pastel picture; -a family group/ceremonial/intimate portrait; -a shoulder-length/half-length/knee-length/full-length portrait; |
-a landscape; -a seascape; -a still life; -a battle piece; -a flower piece; -a masterpiece; |
Composition and drawing
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-in the foreground/background; -in the top/bottom/ left-hand corner; -to define the nearer figures more sharply; -to place the figures against the landscape background; |
-to blend with the landscape; -to be posed/silhouetted against an open sky/a classic pillar/the snow; -to accentuate smth; -to convey a sense of space; |
Colouring and shade effects
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-subtle/gaudy colours; -to combine form and colour into harmonious unity; -brilliant/low-keyed colour scheme; -muted in colour; |
-the colour scheme where…predominate; -the colours may be cool and restful/hot and agitated /soft and delicate/dull/oppressive/harsh;
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Impression and judgement
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-the picture may be moving/lyrical/ romantic/original/poetic in tone and atmosphere; -an exquisite piece of painting; -an unsurpassed masterpiece; |
-the picture may be dull/crude/ chaotic/ a colourless daub of paint/obscure and unintelligible/gaudy/depressing/disappointing/ cheap and vulgar; |
Learn the following.
Painting: painting, picture, canvas.
The name of the artist can be used like a common noun to denote a work by him. A Picasso means a work by him.
Genres of painting. A landscape is a picture representing a tract of country with the various objects it contains. In the context of art landscape generally denotes a picture and not a view depicted there. When speaking of the view use “scenery” or “countryside”.
A seascape is painting or other artistic representation of the sea.
A portrait is a painting, picture or representation of a person, especially of a face generally drawn from life.
Sitter, subject, model is a person who is having his portrait painted.
A still life is a painting of such unanimated subjects as fruit, flowers and other decorative things.
A frescois a picture on a wall or ceiling where a plast is still wet or damp.