Day 30

 

                                             4 more weeks to graduation!

  

OBJECTIVES

* Discussing art

* Working on Steve Job´s Graduation Speech

* Exercising pronunciation of front vowels


I. REMINDERS

1. Written Assignment 3 is due tomorrow.

2. Please check your grades on the Academy´s platform; if you have anything you haven´t presented you need to do it this week.


II. SPEAKING: Discussing art

What is your favorite painting? Painter?

Task: Reading and talking about a work of art.

1. You are assigned one painting below. You will have 10 minutes to find as much as you can about this painting. Make notes.

Who is the author?

When was it painted?

What is the meaning of the painting?

What artistic movement/period does this work belong to?

Your opinion about the work.

2. You will present your findings to the class.


                         The Scream  (Alvaro)


                     Starry Night  (Ana Karenina)


                                                                            


The Kiss (Charlie)

Guernica  (Cristian)

American Gothic  (Diana)

Primavera  (Gracia)

The Last Supper  (Hadda)

The Mona Lisa  (Lesdy)

Mujeres de Tahiti  (Noelia)

The Son of Man (Rony)

LISTENING AND READING COMPREHENSION: Steve Job´s Stanford Commencement Address


PRONUNCIATION: Pronunciation exercises for frontal vowels.







































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