UNIT 2 Best for last  Teacher’s notes

Length: 2.12 7 Students complete the words in the quotes from the
video. When they have finished, invite some students to
Language spell out their answers.
art vocabulary, passive and non-passive verb forms
8 Watch the video, pausing at the appropriate points to
check answers to exercises 6 and 7.
Programme details
This video is about a 2010 exhibition that brought After you watch
together the works of one of the greatest artists in history,
9 In pairs or small groups, students ask and answer the
an artist who represented one of the most famous art
questions in exercise 9, making notes of their answers.
movements.
When they’re ready, students report to the rest of the class
on what they have discovered from their partner or other
Before you watch
students.
1 Find out if any of your students have been to an art
exhibition recently. What artists were on show? What kind
of art was it?
Give students copies of the worksheet and ask them to
do exercise 1 in pairs. In the exercise, students match the
names of art movements with short descriptions. When
they have finished, check the answers and help with any
comprehension problems.

While you watch

2 Explain that the students are going to watch a video
about an art exhibition. They should watch the video and
answer the three questions in exercise 2. Play the video
and check through the answers. If you feel the students
would benefit from checking answers while watching the
video then play it again, pausing at the relevant points.

3 Explain that all the paintings in exercise 3 either

appeared in the video or were mentioned. The students
have to match the halves to make the complete titles. They
should be able to do the exercise using their knowledge of
English and through remembering some of the paintings
they saw in the video.
When they have finished, ask different students to read out
their answers and check to see if the other students agree.

4 Can students remember which of the paintings in

exercise 3 is not on show at the exhibition?

5 Play the video and ask students to tell you to pause it

each time one of the paintings from exercise 3 appears or
is mentioned. Also pause to check the answer to exercise
4 at the point when the narrator says: ‘The Marmottan
museum refused to lend the iconic Impression Sunrise,
the painting which gave its name to a whole movement.’
(00:56).

6 Students choose the appropriate verb for each sentence

and write it in the correct form. If necessary, point out that
some sentences use the passive. When they have finished,
invite some students to read out their answers.

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