2. Make up different types of questions to these sentences.

3. Put the verb sin brackets into Active or Passive Voice.

1) These landscapes … (to paint) by Constable.

2) Her hair … (to fasten) with a comb and a blue ribbon.

3) The Tate Gallery … (to build) in 1897.

4) Every great painter … (to represent) there.

5) The National Gallery …. (to found) in 1824.

6) Hogarth … (to paint) scenes of social life.

7) The colours … (not to apply) scientifically, so many paintings … (to crack) and … (to fade).

8) Her hair … (to comb) very high.

IV. Speaking

Language functions

Suggesting

Why don’t we …

What if we …

How about …

Let’s …

Refusing

I don’t feel like V+ing …

I really don’t want to …

I’d rather not …

I don’t find … very exciting.

I’m not terribly interested in …

Giving reason

Look at it this way. I’m sure…

If I were you, I’d …

It’s more reasonable …

You don’t know what you are missing …

Requesting

Could you tell me …

Could I ask you …

Would you mind V+ing …

1. In pairs role-play the following situations.

1) Your friend visited an art gallery some days ago. He was greatly impressed by a wonderful collection of landscapes. He was charmed by one landscape but he doesn’t remember the name of the artist. He only remembers the guide’s information about that painter. Help your friend to recollect the name of the artist.

2) You and your friend are talking about outstanding English painters, Reynolds and Gainsborough and their artistic activity. Discuss what they have in common and what is different in their work.

3) You and your friend are in the gallery. You are looking at one of the Turner’s painting (“Shipwreck”, “Light and Colour” etc. ). Arrange a conversation about Turner and his painting.

4) It’s you first visit to London. You don’t know where to go in the first place. Ask a Londoner for advice where to go. He advices you to visit The National Gallery ( The Tate Gallery) because it has worldwide fame and contains …

2. Speak about the life and artistic activity of the outstanding English painters of the 17^th-19^th centuries. Point out the pictures you should definitely see.

3. Do you agree that art arouses powerful and complex feelings and almost never leaves us indifferent?

4. Imagine you are an artist. Say what you like to paint, what style of your painting is.

5. Imagine you are a guide in the National Gallery. Speak about one of the English painters.

6. In a group discuss the meaning of the proverb:” Art is long, life is short”.

V. Writing

1. Write a story about your visit to the National Gallery in London.

2. Look at the “Portrait of Duchess de Beaufort” by Gainsborough. Give a written description of the picture according to the following plan:

1) Gainsborough was a favorite portraitist of the aristocracy

2) Appearance of Duchess de Beaufort

3) Colours of the portrait

4) Your impressions

3. Write a postcard to your friend telling him/her about your impressions of visiting a famous art gallery.