VII.Answer the questions.(1,25 pts)

28.Where and when was Picasso born?

……………………………………………………………………………………

29.Was he very excellent at drawing?

……………………………………………………………………………………30.When did Picasso receive artistic training from his father? 

……………………………………………………………………………………

31.How many paintings did Picasso produce?      

……………………………………………………………………………………

32.Where and when did Picasso die?        

look at the reading strategy. then read the texts again. answer the questions for both van gogh and picasso.

1. when was he born ?

2. where was he born?

3. which countries did he live in ?

4. was he famous when he lived?

5. was he rich or poor ?

6. how much do his paintings cost now?

7. when did he start to draw or paint ?

8. .did he get married and have chirlden?

9. how many works of art did he produce ?

10. how old was he when he died?

PABLO PICASSO

everyone knows the artist picasso. his ideas changed the world od art forever. during his lifetime, he became famous and very rich. now his paintings are some of the most expensive pictures in the world. one painting sold for $ 106.5 million in new york.

picasso was born in spain in 1881. his first word was 'pencil' , and he could draw beautifully from an early age. first, he had drawing lessons from his father . then, he went to art college when he was only 13 years old. three years later, he was bored and stopped going to classe. finally, at the age of 19, he moved to paris - the art capital of the world . he got married twice and had four chirlden.

picasso often changed his style od paniting . fo example, after his best friend died, the sad artist pained only in blue . then he began to use a lot of pinks and oranges . later, he started to paint using shapes - a style later called ' cubism', in his life, he produced over 50,000 works of art, he never retired, but pained nearly every day until his death at the age of 91.

VINCENT CAN GOGH

vincent can gogh is a very famous painter. everyone in the world knows his work, and his paintings sell for millions of dollars. but he wasn't famos when he was alive. and he only sold one painting before he died.

van gogh was born in the netherlands in 1853. he has a difficult life because he suffered from mental illness. he never got married. he didn't begin to draw and paint seriously until he was 27, and he died just ten years later. but in that time, he produced more than 2,000 paintings and drwaings.

at first, van gogh painted poor people and used only dark colours. later he moved to the south of france. he loved the sunlight there, and his style of painting became colourful and exciting. but van gogh was often depressed and his mental illness became worse, first , he cut off part of his own ear, and then in 1890, he shot himselt.

look at the reading strategy. then read the texts again. answer the questions for both van gogh and picasso

1. when was he born ?

2. where was he born ?

3. which countries did he live in ?

4. was he famous when he lived ?

5. was he rich or poor ?

6. how much do his paintings cost now?

7. when did he start to draw or paint ?

8. did he get married and have chirlden?

9. how many works of art did he produce?

10. how old was he when he died?

1. Give the correct form the verbs in brackets.

Picasso ............... (be) born in 1881 in Malga, Spain. When he ...............(begin) work, the great painters of impressionist movement ............... (be) still alive. His early pitures - done mainly in blue - showed the poverty he saw around him in Barcelona.

Later he ............... (move) to where he ............... (work), with Geogres braque on pictures showing figures as fragments of geometric shpes the style we know as cubism.

He ............... (become) more deeply involved with politics, espeacially during the Spainish Civil War. One of the Picasso's most famous paintings is Guernica, which depicts the destruction of a Spainish town. Picasso ............... (die) in the south of France in 1973.

Picasso (Pablo Ruiz y Picasso) is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He was born on 25th October 1881 in Malaga, (1) _______ . He showed a great love and skill for drawing from an early age, and at the age of seven, Picasso (2) _____ formal artistic trainning from his father. At 13, he was admitted to a School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. In 1896, he completed “Portrait of Aunt Pepa”, which is considered one of the greatest works of Spain. During his life, he produced an (3) _______ number of works of art: about 50.000 in total, including 1885 paintings. Several (4) ____by Picasso rank among the most expensive paitings in the world. Picasso died on 8 April, 1973 in Mougins, France.(3)

a.

big

b.

great

c.

amazing

d.

enormous

Picasso (Pablo Ruiz y Picasso) is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He was born on 25th October 1881 in Malaga, (1) _______ . He showed a great love and skill for drawing from an early age, and at the age of seven, Picasso (2) _____ formal artistic trainning from his father. At 13, he was admitted to a School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. In 1896, he completed “Portrait of Aunt Pepa”, which is considered one of the greatest works of Spain. During his life, he produced an (3) _______ number of works of art: about 50.000 in total, including 1885 paintings. Several (4) ____by Picasso rank among the most expensive paitings in the world. Picasso died on 8 April, 1973 in Mougins, France.(2)

a.

received

b.

trained

c.

showed

d.

produced

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Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions.

William Shakespear is the world's famous English playwright. He was born at Stratford-on-Avon in 1564. He married Anne Hathaway when he was eighteen and had three children. After that he left his family and went to London to begin his career as an actor, and later, a playwright. He wrote about thirty seven plays of all kinds: comedies, tragedies and historise. He retired in 1611 and spent the last years of his life in Stratford. He died in 1616 and was buried in the church of Stratford.

1.Who is Shakespear?....................................................

2.When was he born?......................................................

3.When did he marry?.......................................................

4.How many children did he have?.....................................................

5.How many plays did he write?...........................................................

6.What kinds of plays did he write?............................................................

7.Did he die at Stratford?............................................................

8.How old was he when he died?...................................................................

9.Where was Shakespear buried?....................................................................

When a fire broke out in the Louvre, at least twenty _______ paintings were destroyed, includingtwo by Picasso.

A. worthless        

B. priceless  

C. valueless 

D. worthy