Unit 3: Telling tales

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Unit 3 Telling tales

• TEACHING READING
• PABLO PICASSO

• Pre-reading
• While-reading
• Post-reading

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Pre-reading
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Warm-up
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• Look at 2 pictures, and answer the questions.
• Who is he?
• Which field is he famous in?
• Have you ever seen this painting?
• Who created this painting?

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• New words
• genius
• spoil
• portrait
• sculpture
• masterpiece

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• genius 'd?ini?s (n) unusually great
  intelligence, skill or artistic ability.
• ex Picasso is a genius.

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• spoil sp?il (v) (ruin) to change sth good
  into sth bad , unpleasant, useless
• Ex He is the only son in his family, so his
  parents love him much and give him everything he
  wants. They also do not punish him when he has
  his fault.
• ?He is spoiled.

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• portrait 'p?treit (n) a painting, drawing
  or photograph a person, specially of the head and
  shoulders.
• ex The painting, Mona Lisa, is a portrait
  painting was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci.

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• sculpture 'sk?lpt?? (n, v) a work of art
  that is a solid figure or object made by carving
  or shaping wood, stone, clay, metal, ect.

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• masterpiece 'm?st?pis (n) a work of art
  such as painting, film/movie, book, etc. that is
  an excellent, or the best.
• ex The Mona Lisa painting is a masterpiece
  of Leonardo Da Vinci.

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While-reading
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Pablo Picasso- The painter

• The first paragraph
• His early life
• On 25 October 1881, a baby boy was born in
  Malaga, Spain. It was a difficult birth and to
  help him breathe, cigar smoke was blown into his
  nose! This baby grew up to be one of the
  twentieth centurys greatest painters-Pablo
  Picasso.
• Picasso showed his genius from a very young age.
  His first word was Lápiz (Spanish for pencil) and
  he could draw before he could he could talk. He
  was the only son in the family, so he was
  thoroughly spoiled. He hated school and often
  refused to go unless he was allowed to take one
  of his fathers get pigeons with him!
• Apart from pigeons, his real love was art. When
  in 1891, his father got a job as an art teacher.
  Pablo went with him to work and watched him
  paint. Sometimes he was allowed to help. One
  evening, his father was painting a picture of
  their pigeons, when he had to leave the room.
  When he returned, Pablo had completed the
  picture. It was so beautiful and lifelike that he
  gave his son his palette and brushes and never
  painted again. Pablo was just thirteen.

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Answer the question

• When and where was he born?
• 2. How is his attitude when he was a child?
• 3.Did Pablo have influence from his father?

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The second paragraph

• His life as an artist
• His genius as an artist was soon recognized by
  many people, but others were shocked by his
  strange and powerful paintings. He is probably
  best known for his Cubist pictures. His portraits
  of people were often made up of triangles and
  squares with their features in the wrong places.
  One of his famous portraits was of the American
  writer Gertrude stein, who he met after hed
  moved to Paris in 1904.
• His work changed ideas about art around, and to
  millions of people, modern art means the work of
  Picasso-Guernica which he painted in 1937,
  records the bombing of that small Basque town
  during the Spanish Civil war, and is undoubtedly
  one of the masterpieces of modern painting.

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Answer the questions

• What was one of Pablos famous portrait?
• 2. what is the content of the Guernica
  painting?
• 3. when did he draw Guernica painting?

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The third paragraph

• His final years
• Picasso married twice and also had many
  mistresses. He had four children. The last,
  Paloma, was born in 1949 when he was 68 years
  olds. At the age of 90 he was honored by an
  exhibition in the Louvre in Paris. He was the
  first living artist to be shown there.
• Picasso created over 6.000 paintings , drawings,
  and sculptures. Today, a Picasso cost millions of
  pound. Once, when the French Minister of culture
  was visiting Picasso, the artist accidentally
  spilled some paint on the Ministers trousers.
  Picasso apologized and wanted to pay for them to
  be cleaned, but the Minister said, Non! please.
  Monsieur Picasso, just sign my trouser!
• Picasso died of heart failure during an attack of
  influenza in 1973.

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Answer the questions

• 1. Did he have a happy family life?
• 2. How many children did he have?\
• 3. In what year was he honored by an exhibition
  in the Louvre in Paris?

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Post-reading
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• Exercise each student prepare for her/his
  talk about the writer/painter/novelist/artist who
  she/he likes most?

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• THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!