EXPLANATION

Main aims of this activity is that students learn to:
- Describe a painting.
- Find similarities and differences between paintings.
- Learn a little bit more about Leonardo Da Vinci and Archimboldo.
- Improve their vocabulary to describe paitings.
- Practise present tenses.

Level:
3 ESO

Timing: 45 minutes. They can do the last activity as homework.

Teachers:
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5th ACTIVITY - ART -

SKILL: WRITING
GROUPING: Individual or in pairs.
ACTIVITY: Describe the pictures.
Find at least 2 painting on the internet of DA VINCI and write similarities and difference between them.

4th ACTIVITY - ART -

SKILL: READING.
GROUPING: Individual.
ACTIVITY: Read the timeline of LEONARDO DA VINCI. Tell your classmate two things you liked and two things you disliked about his life.

3rd ACTIVITY - ART-

SKILL: LISTENING.
GROUPING: Individual.
ACTIVITY: Listen to VOKI and answer the following questions.

What is his/her names?

When was s/he painted?

Who is his/her owner/boss?

Other important information you can listen :

Get a Voki now!

I created this voki in this web: http://www.voki.com/

2nd ACTIVITY - ART -

Video taken from You tube.

SKILL: SPEAKING activity, to improve your oral communicative competence.

GROUPING: In pairs
ACTIVITY: Can you find 10 similarities and 10 differences between these two pictures? Use as many adjective as you can and vocabulary we have learnt in activity 1.

Pictures taken from: http://antidepresivo.net/2007/10/16/diferentes-versiones-de-la-mona-lisa/

GROUPING: Change pairs.

ACTIVITY: Now compare one of the picture from the top to the real one. Find at least 5 difference and 5 similarities.

Picture taken from: http://manuel.cerezo.name/archives/Mona_Lisa%5B1%5D.jpg

1st ACTIVITY - ARCHIMBOLDO PAINTING -

ARCHIMBOLDO

SKILL: This is your turn to practise VOCABULARY.
GROUPING: In groups of 4.

ACTIVITY: You have 3 minutes to write as many words as you can related to:
a) Fruits you can see in the picture.
b) Parts of the body you remember.
c) Colours you remember.

This picture was taken from: http://fagweb.rosborg-gym.dk:8095/archimboldo.sommer.jpg

A WARMER - VOCABULARY.

Three minutes, write on a paper, vocabulary related to:

1. Vocabulary related to fruits.


2. Vocabulary related to parts of the body.


3. Colours.