1. O.V.Afanasyeva, I.V.Mikheeva English VII Unit 7
form 8
Kedovskaya Marina Valentinovna
Gymnasium №17
Korolev
2008

2. ARTS AND PEOPLE IN ARTS
The question will be answered at the end of our lesson:
“Does art make people’s lives brighter and happier? ”

3. ARTS Literature Dancing Music Painting and Drawing Sculpture
Architecture
Theatre (Drama)
Cinema

4. Warming up: Some people all their life work in art
Warming up: Some people all their life work in art. Make sure that you can name these people’s jobs correctly. Match the names of arts with the names of people’s activities. Work in a chain. Ex.2 p.182
1. Someone who writes music or plays a musical instrument is …
2. Someone who acts in plays or films is …
3. Someone who paints pictures is …
4. Someone who makes up songs or music is …
5. Someone who writes plays is …
6. Someone who plans buildings is …
7. Someone who makes statues or other shapes from metal, wood, stone etc. is …
8. Someone who dances in ballet is…
9. Someone who writes a poems is …
10. Someone who sings is …
a. a poet
b. a dramatist or a playwright
c. a ballet dancer
d. a musician
e. a singer
f. an architect
g. an actor or an actress
h. a composer
i. a sculptor
j. an artist

5. Match the names of these people with the arts in which they worked.
Francisco Goya
Elvis Presley
Maya Plisetskaya
Elizabeth Taylor
Friedrich Schiller
Pablo Picasso

6. Vasily Bazhenov
Michelangelo
Sergei Rakhmaninov
Luciano Pavarotti
Rembrandt

7. Ask and answer the questions . Ex.2 p.181 Work in pairs.
1. Which of the arts from the list above can you call visual arts?
2. What role do arts play in people’s lives?
3. What countries are famous for great literature, visual arts, theatre, cinema ?
4. What do we usually mean when we speak about prehistoric art, ancient art, modern art?
5. Where do you go if you want to enjoy arts? Do you like to go to these places alone? With your parents? With your friends? Why?
6. Can you do anything in the way of arts yourself? What can you do?
7. What art would you like to be really good at? Why?
8. What arts are the most popular nowadays?
9. Do you think radio and television are arts? Can you say that they belong to mass media?
- visual arts – виды изобразительного искусства
- mass media - средства массовой информации

8. 1. Theatre… 2. Cinema…3. Music… 4. Sculpture…5.Painting…6.Literature…
The words and word combinations below help us to speak about certain arts. Organize them according to the arts that they describe. (Certain words can belong to more than one category.)
1. Theatre… 2. Cinema…3. Music…
4. Sculpture…5.Painting…6.Literature…
Drama
Flute
Sculpture
Success
Classical
Stage
Violin
Balcony
Fiction
Piano
Bronze
Applause
Ballet
To draw
Operetta
Concert
Box
Screen
Audience
Opera
Scenery
Tragedy
Gallery
Sound
Comedy
To act
Work of art
Color film
Monuments
Horror movie
Cinema-goer
Feature film
To compose
Character
Statue
To applaud
Seat
Dress circle
Museum
Stalls
Performer
To paint

9. Passive Voice be + V3 Simple Present Passive Simple Past Passive
(Simple)Future Passive
am / is / are + V3
was / were + V3
Shall / will be + V3
English is spoken here.
The letters were not posted yesterday
The information won’t be received next week.

10. Choose the right form of the verb in the Passive Voice to complete the sentences.
1. The computer (is used/was used) every day.
2. Such films (are not made/were not made) nowadays.
3. A new collection of sculpture (was exhibited/ will be exhibited) in the local museum next week.
4. This theatre (will be visited/ was visited) by lots of tourists last month.
5. The TV show (was shown/ will be shown) on television yesterday.

11. Compare your answers. 1. The computer (is used /was used) every day.
2. Such films (are not made /were not made) nowadays.
3. A new collection of sculpture (was exhibited/ will be exhibited) in the local museum next week.
4. This theatre (will be visited/ was visited) by lots of tourists last month.
5. The TV show (was shown / will be shown) on television yesterday.

12. A relaxation break. 1. Something is shaped like a ball.
Stand up. Imagine you are sculptors. Try to make up some figures. Show them on with helping your hands.
1. Something is shaped like a ball.
2 Something is shaped like a star.
3. Something is shaped like a heart.
4 Something is regular in shape.
5 Something is irregular in shape.
in shape/ shaped like- в форме

13. Let’s listen and discuss. The text “The role of art in people’s life”.
There are some new words in the text:
A duet – дуэт
To rob - грабить
To pay taxes – платить налоги
Listen to the sentences with these words and translate them:
One day they were looking for rich families to rob.
He saw a young man and a girl playing a duet on a piano.
He didn’t like paying taxes.
Now we’ll listen to the text and after the first listening you’ll answer the question:
Did the art help the family not to be robbed by Jim’s people?

14. After the second listening you’ll find out which of these sentences are true and which are false. Write “+ “or “– “after each sentence.
1. Jim was clever, but lazy.
2. He didn’t like paying taxes.
3. He always used clever people to steal for him.
4. They tried to find rich families.
5. One of his men played a duet on a piano with a girl.
6. The girl’s family was poor.
7. The art helped the family not to be robbed.

15. Reflection. We have spoken about arts today. Answer the question:
“Does art make people’s lives brighter and happier? ”

16. Thank you.
Good bye .