Form 10

Art Galleries And Museums In London

Read and translate the text 

London is visited by millions of tourists every year. They come there to see the sights of London and to visit London’s museums. There is quite a number of museums and art galleries in London which are world-famous.

The National Gallery is situated in Trafalgar Square and is one of the best-known art galleries in the world. It was founded in 1824 and houses one of the most important collections of Italian paintings outside Italy. It is also famous for its Dutch collection, particularly for paintings by Rembrandt. The National Portrait Gallery is situated near the National Gallery. It is Britain’s leading art gallery of portraits of famous people in British history. The National Portrait Gallery is noted for representing various kinds of portraits - from traditional oil paintings to photographs. Founded in 1856, in 1984 it contained over 800 original portraits and more than 500 000 photographs.

The famous Tate Gallery was opened in 1897 with the financial support of Sir Henry Tate. He also gave a collection of 65 paintings. The Gallery contains a unique collection of British painting from the 16th century to the present day. Turner and Blake are particularly well represented in the collections. The Gallery also has many drawings and modern sculpture.

Victoria and Albert Museum is a collection of fine and applied arts. It contains a great collection of miniature, too. It was opened in 1857 and was named after Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert.

The British Museum was founded in 1753. It contains one of the world’s richest collections of antiquities. It also houses the main collection covering the history of plants, minerals and the animal world. There is also the Reading room of the British Library in the museum.

There is a number of museums in London which are neither art museums or galleries. Nevertheless, they attract tourists from different parts of Great Britain and of the world. You are sure to know about Madame Tusseau’s Museum. It contains hundreds of wax figures which are sculpture portraits of famous personalities - political figures, painters, musicians, sportsmen and even criminals. The Museum of London represents the history of the city from its foundation to its present day. The Museum of Moving Image illustrates the history of cinema.

In other words, any visitor can find a museum to his taste in London.

New Vocabulary:

- to see the sights

an art gallery

to be world-famous

- one of the best-known art galleries

to be founded

to house smth.

an important collection

a painting

- Britain’s leading art gallery

a portrait

to be noted for smth.

to represent smth.

various kinds of portraits

a traditional oil painting

an original portrait

- with the financial support of smb.

to contain a unique collection

to be particularly well represented

modern sculpture

- fine and applied arts

miniature

to be named after smb.

- the world’s richest collection

an antiquity

to cover the history of smth.

- to attract tourists

a wax figure

a sculpture portrait

a famous personality

a political figure

a criminal

from its foundation to its present day

- to one’s taste

Answer the questions:

1)      What collections does the National Gallery house?

2)      What is the National Portrait Gallery noted for?

3)      What painters are particularly well represented in the Tate Gallery?

4)      What kind of museum is Victoria and Albert Museum? Why is it named so?

5)      What are the two departments of the British Museum?

6)      What museums besides art museums and galleries can you find in London?

Form 8

Music Is Everywhere

Brainstorming. 

What words do you associate with the word ‘music’?

Reading

Read the text, add the last sentence to the text and answer the questions.

People can't live without music. They can listen to it everywhere even in the forest, when they walk and hear birds' singing. Music can be classical and modern. Classical music is performed by symphonic orchestras, it is serious and requires good understanding. Some people, especially teenagers, think that classical music is boring and dull. But  they are not right!

Most people prefer modem music. There are different kinds of modern music: pop, rock, disco, rap, techno and others. Young people like pop, disco and rap. Older people prefer jazz, rock and pop. I'm fond of music and like to listen to...

Answer the questions.

1. People can live without music, can't they?

2. Where can they listen to the music?

3. What is classical music?

4. What is modern music?

5. What music do you prefer?

6. What are different kinds of modern music?

7. What music do the teenagers / older people prefer? 

Famous singers

Material Girl

One of the most successful entertainers  is Madonna. She is one of the world's top pop singers and has sold millions of records. But who is Madonna?

Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone was born into a large family in Michigan, USA, in 1958. Even as a child she had many talents. At the age of eight she acted in a friend's homemade film. She also appeared in school plays and gradually became interested in dancing. After graduation, she went to the University of Michigan for a while.

Shortly after that, she left for New York and arrived with only $35 in her pocket. She worked with dance groups for some time and then began to get interested in pop music. She learned to play the guitar and write songs. She began to develop her own musical style, mixing the sounds and rhythms of rock'n'roll, pop and dance music. Then, in 1983, she produced a record of her own. It was called "Madonna".

The first album attracted the attention of disc jockeys and dance clubs. By 1984, it was known across the USA. She quickly became recognized as one of the top talents in popular music. More successful records followed, as well as national and world tours. Young people around the world loved her songs, like "Vogue" and "Like a Player" and they bought millions of copies. Since then, Madonna has continuec to record successful hit songs and videos, and she has also starred ii several films. Out for many people, she is still the Queen of Pop.

Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston was born into a musical family in Newark, New Jersey, in 1963. Her mother, Cissy Houston, was a gospel music singer and sometimes perform as a backing vocalist with Elvis Presley. Whitney began singing gospel songs in church when she was eleven years old. While she was studying at college she occasionally sang backing vocal for rhythm and blues singers. She made her first album in 1985, which was an immediate hit, and later won many Grammy Awards. While she enjoying all this success, she married the singer Bobby Brown. In 1992 she starred in "The Bodyguard" with Kevin Costlier, and had her biggest hit, "I Will Always Love You".

Form 5

My favourite clothes

Tasks: 

1) MATCHING

Aisha, Eddie, Lynn and Vikram are talking about their favourite clothes. Match their names (1-4) to the pictures (a-d).

Names:

1) Aisha;

2) Eddie;

3) Lynn;

4) Vikram;

Pictures:

a

b

c

d

Aisha

I love clothes and shopping. I would describe my look as 'stylish'. I like designer labels and I would never wear torn or baggy clothes — too scruffy! My favourite clothe are my black, knee-length trousers, my striped shirt and my flat, pointed boots. They're really cool. Lots of people my age wear jeans, T-shirts and woolly hats — no way!

Eddie

I like clothes, but I don't buy designer stuff, I suppose my style is 'casual'. I wear jeans most of the time when I 'm not at school. I like T-shirts and sweatshirts, but I don't wear a hoodie very often. My favourite clothes are my jeans, a T-shirt my brother brought me from New York, trainers and my leather jacket. I think it's a cool look — not formal.

Lynn

I love sports and being outside, so I never wear formal clothes. I'm a skateboarder, so my favourite clothes'are skater fashion. I wear baggy T-shirts and baggy, torn jeans, and boots. I never wear coats or jackets because I live nin my hoodie. When it's really cold, I also wear a blackwoolly hat. I think it's very cool and trendy. My mum says I look scruffy, but I like my look.

Vikram

People at my school say I 'm trendy. I'd say I have an alternative style. I like street fashion more than designer labels. At the moment my favourite clothes are my tight black denim jeans, pointed boots, a white shirt and a striped, silk waistcoat. I sometimes wear hats, too, but never baseball caps or woolly hats. My parents would like me to be smart, but I think clothes should be fun.

2) Read and translate these texts

Співаємо разом!!!

Form 1

Form 3

Увага!!!

Нове правило...

Irregular Verbs

Неправильні дієслова в англійській мові

Неправильні дієслова англійської мови відрізняються від правильних тим, що мають свої особливі форми для Past Simple (простого минулого часу).

Таким чином, загальновживаним способом утворення форми минулого часу стало додавання закінчення -ed до основи дієслова. Тим не менш, деякі дієслова не піддалися мовним змінам та протистояли спрощенню, тому зберегли свої старі форми відмінювання навіть у сучасній англійській мові. Саме цьому такі дієслова й назвали неправильними дієсловами англійської мови. 

На жаль, не існує єдиного правила для утворення форм неправильних дієслів, тому їхні форми слід запам'ятовувати.

Тому пам’ятаймо про таблицю неправильних дієслів!

Past Simple шукаємо у другій колонці!

Коли утворюємо заперечення або питання, неправильне дієслово рухається з другої колонки в першу.

Пам’ятаймо про допоміжне дієслово did у питальній формі, яке ставиться перед підметом.

А також did not (didn’t) у заперечній формі, котре ставиться після підмета.

Вчимося:

He played football yesterday.

(play – правильне дієслово, тому додали закінчення –ed)

Did he play football yesterday?

Yes, he did. (No, he didn’t)

He did not (didn’t) play football yesterday.

She went to school last week.

(went – неправильне дієслово, дивимось у табличку неправильних дієслів (ІІ колонка), початкова форма go)

Did she go to school last week?

Yes, she did. (No, she did not.)

She did not (didn’t) go to school last week.

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Давайте повторимо вивчені літери!

Form 1

А тепер пригадаємо тему "Їжа"

Videos about art for 10 and 11 forms

Read, translate and put 10 questions to this text.

ART has not always been what we think it is today. An object regarded as Art today may not have been perceived as such when it was first made, nor was the person who made it necessarily regarded as an artist. Both the notion of "art" and the idea of the "artist" are relatively modern terms.

 Many of the objects we identify as art today -- Greek painted pottery, medieval manuscript illuminations, and so on -- were made in times and places when people had no concept of "art" as we understand the term. These objects may have been appreciated in various ways and often admired, but not as "art" in the current sense.

 ART lacks a satisfactory definition. It is easier to describe it as the way something is done -- "the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others" --rather than what it is.

 The idea of an object being a "work of art" emerges, together with the concept of the Artist, in the 15th and 16th centuries in Italy.

During the Renaissance, the word Art emerges as a collective term encompassing Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, a grouping given currency by the Italian artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century. Subsequently, this grouping was expanded to include Music and Poetry which became known in the 18th century as the 'Fine Arts'. These five Arts have formed an irreducible nucleus from which have been generally excluded the 'decorative arts' and 'crafts', such as as pottery, weaving, metalworking, and furniture making, all of which have utility as an end.

 But how did Art become distinguished from the decorative arts and crafts? How and why is an artist different from a craftsperson?

In the Ancient World and Middle Ages the word we would translate as 'art' today was applied to any activity governed by rules. Painting and sculpture were included among a number of human activities, such as shoemaking and weaving, which today we would call crafts.

 During the Renaissance, there emerged a more exalted perception of art, and a concomitant rise in the social status of the artist. The painter and the sculptor were now seen to be subject to inspiration and their activities equated with those of the poet and the musician.

 In the latter half of the 16th century the first academies of art were founded, first in Italy, then in France, and later elsewhere. Academies took on the task of educating the artist through a course of instruction that included such subjects as geometry and anatomy. Out of the academies emerged the term "Fine Arts" which held to a very narrow definition of what constituted art.

 The institutionalizing of art in the academies eventually provoked a reaction to its strictures and definitions in the 19th century at which time new claims were made about the nature of painting and sculpture. By the middle of the century, "modernist" approaches were introduced which adopted new subject matter and new painterly values. In large measure, the modern artists rejected, or contradicted, the standards and principles of the academies and the Renaissance tradition. By the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, artists began to formulate the notion of truth to one's materials, recognizing that paint is pigment and the canvas a two-dimensional surface. At this time the call also went up for "Art for Art's Sake."

 In the early 20th century all traditional notions of the identity of the artist and of art were thrown into disarray by Marcel Duchamp and his Dada associates. In ironic mockery of the Renaissance tradition which had placed the artist in an exalted authoritative position, Duchamp, as an artist, declared that anything the artist produces is art. For the duration of the 20th century, this position has complicated and undermined how art is perceived but at the same time it has fostered a broader, more inclusive assessment of art.