Unit 4 Art for Heart’s Sake

Unit 4

Art for Heart’s Sake

Listening

William Joseph Turner

      1. Agree or disagree with these statements.

1. William Joseph Turner was famous German painter.
2. He was a son of farmer.
3. At fourteen William entered the Royal Academy School.
4. Turner was married three times.
5. Nobody was aloud to see Turner at work.
6. At 27 he became a Royal Academician.
7. The last years of his life he spent at Chelsea.
8.  The painter liked to watch the sunrise and sunset.
9. All his paintings are exhibited at the National Gallery and Tate Gallery.
10. Most of his paintings were dedicated to the sea.
11. William Joseph Turner was the greatest English landscape and marine painter.
12. The name of William Turner is famous above all other portraitists.

Grammar

2. Choose the correct answer:
1. It was … warm and early spring this year.
a) a;     b) an;     c) the.
2. That was … most interesting novel I have ever read.
a) a;     b) an;     c) the.
3. They are at … lunch now. Don’t bother them.
a) a;     b) an;     c) the.
4. Jane went to Canada in … winter of 1945.
a) a;     b) an;     c) the.
5. His father always reads … ‘Times’ on Sundays.
a) a;     b) an;     c) the.
6. She was … first to enter this room.
a) a;     b) an;     c) the.
7. You must visit … Zoo Museum in Kyiv.
a) a;     b) an;     c) the.
8. … first month of the year is January.
a) a;     b) an;     c) the.
9. What … wonderful place was it! We enjoyed it very much.
a) a;     b) an;     c) the.
10. Look at him! He is quite … child.
a) a;     b) an;     c) the.
11. … Lake Superior is very beautiful.
a) a;     b) — ;    c) the.
12. … Nile is the biggest river in the world.
a) a;     b) an;     c) the.

3. Put the following statements into indirect speech.

1. She said “I’m working in a restaurant, and don’t much care for it”

2. “I can’t live on my basic salary”, said Peter.

3. “We are waiting for the school bus”, said the children.

4. “I have made a terrible mistake”, said Peter.

5. “We have been here for two and half years”, said the strange man.

6. “The ice will soon be hard enough to skate on”, said Tom.