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Home reading: Graffiti – street art
Textbook: p. 12
GoalReading about street art (graffiti) and answering questions.
New words
wall · devorartist · rassomexhibition · ko‘rgazmapermission · ruxsat
Explanation
The book’s text “Graffiti – street art” says that modern graffiti began in New York in the 1970s, when young people wrote their names on walls. Today many artists decorate city walls with big colourful pictures and their work is also shown in galleries. In many places it is against the law to paint on a wall without permission, so artists work in special places or with permission. Below is my own short text. Read it and answer the questions. Remember: paint on a wall only with the owner’s permission and work with spray paint only with an adult’s help.
Worked examples
“The grey wall”. The wall behind our school was grey and sad. Last spring the headteacher gave a group of pupils permission to paint it. They drew a big blue river, a tall mulberry tree and children from all over the country. Now people stop to take photos of it, and nobody wants to write on the wall.
Mini-dialogue. — Is street art always legal? — No, it isn’t. You need permission from the owner. — Where can artists paint? — In special zones, on school walls with permission, or in galleries.
Class activity
“Wall idea”: the group sketches an idea for a school wall in a notebook and describes it in three sentences (nothing is painted on a real wall).
Practice
1
About the text: Why did people stop to take photos of the wall?
Because it had a beautiful picture of a river, a tree and children.
2
True or false: The pupils painted the wall without permission.
False. The headteacher gave them permission.
3
Explain the word “exhibition”.
A show where people look at pictures or objects.
4
Why should we ask permission before painting a wall?
The wall belongs to somebody else; painting without permission damages their property.