- •1 Complete the lead-in text using the words and phrases given. How far do you agree or disagree with the statements?
- •3 Listen to a short paragraph of the Episode and write it down (classwork).
- •5 Complete the sentences with the correct words and phrases from Task 4.
- •7 Check you know the meanings of the words and phrases given in the box, make use of them when covering the information provided in the episode:
- •8 Translate the following sentences into either English or Russian using the words and word combinations from Tasks 4 and 7.
- •9 Speaking points. Comment on the following quotations from the episode.
- •1 Complete the lead-in text using the words and phrases given. Explain the words in bold.
- •3 Listen to a short paragraph of the Episode and write it down (classwork).
- •4 Watch the episode again and fill in the gaps with the missing information. Write no more than three words.
- •5 Check you know the meanings of the words and phrases given in the box, make use of them when covering the information provided in the episode:
- •6 Render the following text into English using the words from Task 5.
- •1 Complete the lead-in text using the words and phrases given.
- •3 Listen to a short paragraph of the Episode and write it down (classwork).
- •4 Watch the episode again and fill in the gaps with the missing information. Write no more than three words.
- •5 Check you know the meanings of the words and phrases given in the box, make use of them when covering the information provided in the episode:
- •6 Render the following text into English using the words from Task 5.
- •7 Speaking points. Comment on the following quotations from the episode.
- •1 Complete the lead-in text using the words and phrases given.
- •3 Watch the episode again and fill in the gaps with the missing information. Write no more than three words. (00:00 – 00:46)
- •4 Listen to a short paragraph of the Episode and write it down (classwork).
- •5 Check you know the meanings of the words and phrases given in the box, make use of them when covering the information provided in the episode:
- •6 Speaking points. Comment on the following quotations.
- •2 Check you know the meanings of the words and phrases given in the box, make use of them when covering the information provided in the episode:
- •3 Listen to a short paragraph of the Episode and write it down (classwork).
- •4 Who made these remarks on superstitions?
- •5 Watch the episode again and fill in the gaps with the missing information. Write no more than three words.
- •6 Render the following extract into English, using the language of the episode.
- •2 Check you know the meanings of the words and phrases given in the box, make use of them when covering the information provided in the episode:
- •3 Listen to a short paragraph of the Episode and write it down (classwork).
- •4 Who resort to the following superstitions? Choose from the list: an actor, a gambler, a tennis star, David Thomas, a voodoo mumbo
- •Turn round a parking lot
- •5 Find English equivalents for the following word-combinations.
- •6 Render the following extract into English, using the language of the episode.
- •7 Write a summary of the Episode “Superstitions. Part 1&2” in the form of review (no more than 60 words)
- •Part 1
- •2 Watch the episode again and fill in the gaps with the missing information. Write no more than three words.
- •3 Listen to a short paragraph of the Episode and write it down (classwork).
- •4 Explain literary reference in the following phrases. Comment on the reference.
- •5 Find English equivalents for the following word-combinations.
- •6 Check you know the meanings of the words and phrases given in the box, make use of them when covering the information provided in the episode:
- •7 Render the following extracts into English, using the language of the episode.
- •2 Listen to a short paragraph of the Episode and write it down (classwork).
- •3 Find English equivalents for the following word-combinations.
- •4 Check you know the meanings of the words and phrases given in the box, make use of them when covering the information provided in the episode:
- •5 Render the following text into English using the language of the Episode, using the words from Task 3 and 4.
- •6 Write a summary of the Episode “Diana. Part 1&2” in the from of review (about 60 words)
3 Listen to a short paragraph of the Episode and write it down (classwork).
4 Watch the episode again and fill in the gaps with the missing information. Write no more than three words.
00:02 - It’s an absolutely wonderful little picture. It ______________________ it. The girl’s face, that beautiful face __________ with light, is _____________ . You have to stand here, you feel, you realize that Vermeer’s actually _______________ you, he’s turned you into an ____________, a ___________ on a seventeenth-century scene. But what is it that you’re actually looking at?
There’s a _________________________ quality to the light and the way it _____________ the young woman’s face, ___________ an __________________ of the contact between a man and a woman, erotic, but I think, also full of _____________. As so often in Vermeer, ____________ of the picture are very wildly: the man’s a soldier, and some say the girl’s a prostitute, the map behind her signifying her _________, and therefore ___________, nature. I ____________. I think it’s a picture about the look of love, the instant when two people ______________ each other. I wonder if Vermeer __________ _______ his own memories of falling in love with his beloved Catherina. Perhaps the light __________ her just like this. I think painting was his way of trying to _____________________________ in life that have real value, real meaning.
5 Check you know the meanings of the words and phrases given in the box, make use of them when covering the information provided in the episode:
Rembrandt versus Vermeer. The mystery that Vermeer creates in the picture The Letter.
stay-at-home self-proclaiming restless be loyal thrust oneself on rugged handling warts and all mirror-like his compulsion catch the light at crossroads |
A camera obscura in Vermeer’s art.
be down to technique to go to great lengths to back up the confines of a box a walk-in cupboard sealed off silent images to eliminate line in terms of a means to an end to master space |
Jorgen Wadum, conservator, about the restorations of Vermeer’s paintings.
X-ray radiography infrared spectroscopy in the foreground to cause wrinkling small black spots to remove the grunge to subdue the brightness reflections of moisture |
The disturbing years of 1662 and 1663 in Vermeer’s family.
at the height of overpriced to have no stock to burst back to thrust at smb to come to rescue to be committed to to repeat the patterns of the past |
The enigma of Vermeer’s art.
to road-test luminous paintings to depict the textures crumbling homage to smb to have a direct influence a tempestuous domestic life in the background |