1 In pairs, describe the painting behind Teri Horton using the adjectives from the box. What do you think it shows? Read the text. Then ask and answer the questions below.
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bright cheerful colourful depressing gloomy imaginative irritating original scary thought-provoking unsophisticated |
1 When (and why) did you last go to an art gallery? What did you see? Did you enjoy it?
2 What do you think of modern art?
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Past Perfect
2 Read the text again. For each pair of sentences, tick the thing that happened first.
1 □ a Teri bought the painting for $5.
□b The shop assistant had asked for $8.
2 □a Teri decided to sell the painting.
□b They hadn’t managed to get the painting inside the friend’s house.
3 □a An expert had found a fingerprint on the painting.
□b Someone offered $9 million for the painting.
3 Study the Grammar box and find more examples of the Past Perfect in the text.
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We use the Past Perfect to talk about an action in the past that was completed before another action or a time in the past. We often contrast an action in the Past Simple (e.g. realised) with an earlier one in the Past Perfect (e.g. had left). When I got home, I realised that I had left my phone in the taxi. + I had finished. - They hadn’t started. ? Had he gone? Yes, he had. / No, he hadn’t. Wh-? Where had she gone?
Linkers: after, already, as soon as, before, by, by the time, once, until |
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had never bought, had asked, had bought, hadn’t managed, Had a world-famous abstract artist painted, had never heard, ’d worked, had died, had signed, had found
4 Read the caption for the photo. Then in pairs, think of possible answers to the question. Do Exercise 5 and check.
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5.Complete the text with the Past Perfect of the verbs in brackets. Listen and check.
In July 2010, seven-year-old Kieron Williamson had an art exhibition. Kieron 1 had painted (paint) 33 watercolours of landscapes for the exhibition in Holt, Norfolk in England. At his previous exhibition in 2009, Kieron 2 had sold (sell) 16 paintings. How much money 3 had he made (he/ make)? £18,200. This time people 4 had come (come) from countries all around the world to buy his paintings. By the time the exhibition fi nished, all 33 paintings 5 had gone (go) and Kieron 6 had made (make) £150,000! The Williamsons were delighted. They 7 7hadn’t expected (not expect) the paintings to sell so well.
- 6. Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.
1 When the artist died (die) at the age of 68, he had created (create) many pieces of art based on the deserts of Jordan.
2 After he and his friend had had (have) an argument, he felt bad and apologised (apologise).
3 By the time he Mahmoud was (be) a student, Mahmoud had already decided (already/decide) to become an artist.
4 She spent (spend) many years alone in her room after she had had
(have) a serious traffic accident at the age of 18.
- 7. SPEAKING In pairs, tell stories about art from your life. Use the linkers in the Grammar box and include at least one example of the Past Perfect.
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When I was younger, my grandmother asked me to paint a picture. As soon as I fi nished the painting, I realised I’d painted all over her expensive dining table. My grandmother had left the room but when she came back, she …
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