2. Your Favourite Magazine

1. What is your favourite magazine? 2. Is it a monthly or a weekly magazine? 3. Since when have you been reading it? 4. Why do you find it interesting? 5. What do the articles deal with? 6. What attracts you most in a magazine? 7. Are there any crossword puzzles in the maga­zine? 8. Are you good at solving puzzles? 9. How much is a yearly sub­scription*?

3. Redecorating the Flat

1. What colour would you like to have the room painted? 2. Give me your reasons for picking out this colour of all the colours. 3. Would you rather do the work yourself or have it done by some painter? 4. Is it hard work? What should we begin with: whitewashing the ceiling or painting the walls? 5. What do you do with the furniture — cover it with paper or take it out into the corridor? 6. How many coats of paint should the walls be given? 7. How long do you suppose it would take a team of workers to do the work?

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4. On Introductions

1. Is it usual to have a person introduce himself? 2. How are intro­ductions usually made? 3. What is the usual formula of introduction? 4. What do people say when they are introduced to each other? 5. What are the rules to follow when introducing people?

5. The Latest Exhibition at Exhibition Hall

1. Has there been any exhibition held lately at Exhibition Hall?

2. When did it open? For how long was it open? 3. Have I any chance of seeing the exhibition? Is it still open? 4. What is on show? 5. Do you happen to remember any new names? 6. Whose pictures impressed you most? 7. Did anything in particular catch your attention?

Ex. 49. Read the following. Answer the questions, using the vocabulary of the lesson and retell the passage.

Picasso is perhaps the best known and most influential* of modern artists. Many people have made fun of his paintings; others have dis­liked them; but thousands believe him to be a great artist. What is cer­tain is that more people will admire Picasso as the years go by.

In 1960 a large and impressive exhibition of Picasso's paintings was held in the Tate Gallery in London. Several hundred of his canvases were exhibited and the public came in their thousands to see them. At last people could see his paintings properly in their true colours and they were certainly impressed by his great variety** of styles.

Picasso, who was born in Malaga in Spain in 1881, took up painting seriously in about 1895. During his long life he has always tried to find new ways of expressing himself in art. Most of his early pictures are easy to understand and like: gay scenes of Paris, and rather sad pictures of actors, players and poor people, for example. Then he became a cubist, painting people and objects*** as if they were made of cubes, squares and triangles. His later cubist pictures are very abstract and painted in browns and greys.

In the nineteen-thirties Picasso's art often expressed sorrow**** and anger with great power. His best known painting of the period is Guer­nica showing the horrors***** of war.

Picasso's art has always been restless, searching; symbolic, senti­mental, satirical, it has never been simply formal.