1. reading

2. Mona Lisa---
The Potato Eaters
Leonardo Da Vinci
Van Gogh

3. Guernica
Pablo Picasso
Starry Night
Van Gogh

4. The Night Watchman---
Rembrandt

5. Lotus flowers
Claude Monet
Sunflowers
Van Gogh

6. He was also a sculptor, an architect, an engineer and a scientist.
5.what did da Vinci do besides painting?
He was also a sculptor, an architect,
an engineer and a scientist.
6.In which museum can you see Monet’s work?
Musee d’Orsay
7.Where is the Van Gogh Museum?
It is in Amsterdam.
8.In which city did Li Ping see Rembrandt’s paintings?
In Aemsterdam.

7. T or F questions F T T T F F T Pablo Picasso was born in England.
Picasso wasn’t just a painter.
The painting of Mona Lisa is in the Louvre Museum.
4.Leonardo da Vinci is an Italian.
5.Monet was an American painter.
6.Van Gogh ‘s early paintings were abstract.
7.Rembrandt lived from 1606 to 1669. F T T T F F T

8. C2: Complete the table below according to the text:
Artist
Nationality
Date of birth and death
Famous painting
Year of painting
Pablo Picasso
Self-partrait
1972
Van Gogh
Rembrandt
Leonardo da Vinci
Spanish
1885
1889
The potato eaters starry night
Dutch
The night watchman
1642
Dutch
Italian
Mona lisa

9. D: Match them with the correct definitions:
1.Masterpiece
2.Caculate
3.floated
4.wept
5.abstract
6.distribute
7.negotiate
8.adore
a. an artist’s best work of art
b. not concrete, only existing in the mind
c. discuss term of an arrangement
d. work out, figure out
e. love greatly
f. shed tears because of sadness, anger or pain
g. give out, pass out spread
h. moved an a liquid surface

10. E: When Li Ming was in Amsterdam , he found a brochure about painters from the past .Unfortunately , his aunt spilt coffee over it so now he cannot read some of the words .Help him figure but what the missing words are by writing the correct words above the blots.

11. Check Answers: 1) Italian 2) sculptor 3) astronomy 4) calculated
5) louver ) nature
7) successful ) talented
9) created ) abstract

12. Language points