Colours and Shapes review

Ефіл 1 Work individually. Follow the link  and complete online task. Check how well you know colours and shapes by choosing shapes of particular colour. Get ready to share your score, discuss your results and comment on the difficulties you faced in the task.

Task 2. Work individually. Follow the link and complete online task. Check how well you know different geometric shapes. Get ready to share your score, discuss your results and comment on the difficulties you faced in the task.

Task 3. Work individually. Look at the picture. Note the location of different objects. Study the vocabulary to describe the placement of elements in the picture. Describe the picture to the class.

IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER!

1. Talk in sentences – don’t produce lists of items you can see (use Present Continuous).

2. Organize your description – don’t describe the same thing more than once

3. Start with a general idea of the subject of the picture before going into details

4. Give reasons (related to the picture) for your ideas.

5. Talk about the situation as well as the physical things you can see in the picture.

6. Give some personal reaction to the picture

7. Listen quietly when your partner describes his/her photo – don’t give help or comment until they finish their speech.

PICTURE DIRRECTIONS

1. ‘In the top left corner …’

2. ‘In the top right corner…’

3. ‘In the bottom right corner…’

4. ‘In the bottom left corner…’

5. ‘In the middle …’

6. ‘In the foreground…’

7. ‘In the background…’

8. ‘in the middle on the right…’

Task 4 Work in individually. Look at the painting by abstract artist Reggie Laurent. Note down the following information:

·       types of lines the artist uses;

·       the colour of lines;

·       location of lines;

·       effect these lines create;

·       types of  shapes the artist used (organic or geometric);

·       location of shapes;

·       colours of shapes;

·       effect the use of shapes create;

·       your impressions of the picture;

Get ready to describe the picture to the classroom. Use phrases from the Vocabulary to describe location and placement list  to describe the location of shapes and lines in the picture.

Task 5 

Work in pairs. Look at the two paintings. Can you spot 5 differences between them? Note down all the differences between the pictures that you can find in 5 minutes. Compare your list with other groups. The group that found all the differences wins. 

To compare the pictures use the structures:

In the left-hand picture we can see…., but in the right-hand picture…

In the left-hand pictures the colour of... is, while in the right-hand picture it is….

Task 6

Work in pairs: Student A and Student B. Student A looks at the picture following the link. Student B goes to the link and follows the instructions. Student A will describe the picture and Student B will draw it in the exercise book following the description. Then in PART 2 of the task the roles will change.