Reading - Unit 3 - New Headway 3rd Edition

Pablo Picasso Ernest Hemingway • Why are they famous?. Ernest Hemingway Pablo PicassoErnest Hemingway... His first word was la’piz Spanish for pencil and he could draw before he could ta

UNIT 3 :

TELLING TALESREADING & SPEAKING

The painter & The writer

Discussion

Vocabulary

Reading

Who are or were the most famous painters and writers in Vietnam?

Pablo Picasso

Ernest Hemingway

• Why are they famous?

• What nationality were they?

• Which century were they born in?

• Do you know the name of any of their works?

• Do you know anything about their lives?

Ernest Hemingway Pablo PicassoErnest Hemingway

H (Hemingway).

1 His first word was la’piz (Spanish for

pencil) and he could draw before he could talk

2 He had wanted to become a soldier,

but couldn’t because he had a poor

eyesight

3 His portraits of people were often

made up of triangles and squares with their features in the wrong places

4 In the 1930s, he became a war

correspondent in the Spanish

Civil War and World War II

5 He was awarded the Nobel Prize

for literature, but he was too ill

to receive it in person

6 At the age of 90 he was

honoured by an exhibition in the Louvre in Paris

Pablo Picasso

Ernest Hemingway

Pablo Picasso

• genius // (n.)

- great intelligence, skill or artistic ability

the genius of Shakespeare/ Picasso

- a person who is unusually intelligent or

artistic

Picasso is a genius at drawing portraits.

Pablo Picasso

spoil // (v.) (spoil – spoiled – spoiled)

to change sth good into sth bad, unpleasant, useless, etc ( = ruin)

Our picnic was spoilt by bad weather

an occasion when a bomb is

dropped or left somewhere; the act of doing this

• masterpiece /::/ (n.)

a work of art such as a painting, film / movie, book, etc that is an excellent, or the best, example of the artist’s work

Picasso’s work is a masterpiece of

(= an excellent example of) modern

painting

• sculpture // (n.)

a work of art that is a solid figure

or object made by carving or

shaping wood, stone, clay, metal, etc

• shotgun // (n.)

a long gun that is used especially for shooting birds or animals

• divorce // (n.), (v.)

(n.) the legal ending of a marriage

(v.) to end your marriage to sb legally

She’s divorcing her husband

• fascinate // (v.)

to attract or interest sb very much

The private lives of movie stars never fail

to fascinate

-> fascinated (a.) very interested

-> fascinating (a.) very interesting

-> fascinatingly (adv.)

• suffer // (v.)

suffer from sth

to be badly affected by a disease, pain, sadness, a lack of sth, etc

He suffers from asthma

to experience sth unpleasant, such as injury,

defeat or loss

The company suffered huge losses in the last financial year

Work in two groups

• Group A: Read about

• Group B: Read about

Pablo Picasso

Ernest Hemingway

Task 1:

Answer the questions about your person

1 Where and when he was born?

When and how did he die?

2 Did he have a happy family

life?

3 How did his parents play a part

in his career?

4 What do you think were the

most important events in his

early life?

5 When did he move to Paris?

Who did he meet there?

6 How did war play a part in his

life?

7 How many time was he married?

8 Which of these dates relate to

your person? What do they

refer to?

1891 1917 1918 1927 1928

1937 1940 1949 1954

Task 2:

Find the differences and similarities

between the two men, Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway