PROGRAMMA DI INGLESE 2009-2010

Introduce yourself: this is me, my family and my friends;

Personal details: what kind of artist are you?
Reading Comprehension: subject, composition, content, symbol, credit line;;
Reading Comprehension: Elements of Art–Colours and values;
Vocabulary: colours, useful adjectives;
Colour Wheel: primary, secondary and tertiary colours;
Activity: complete your colour wheel with shapes and colours, tints and shades.
Photoshop fundamentals: graphics vector tools;
Expressing feelings: it makes me feel + adjectives;
Communication activity: who are you? What is it?–revision of wh-questions (to be and to have);
Vocabulary: complete the spidergram - The wonderful world of Fine Art.
Homework: create a spidergram about drawing and painting using accessories, utility liquids and major
techniques.
Listening Comprehension: Fine Arts–what can you find in an artist’s studio?
Reading comprehension: Exploring Arts–Lines; different kinds of lines;
Homework: Expressing opinion - What do diagonal and curved lines express? Add more qualities to lines.
Reading Comprehension and vocabulary exercises: the Artist’s sketchbook & Colossal creation
Homework: lexical reinforcement–adjective and opposites; words in context.
Vocabulary: What is made of?– Fabric and materials.
Reading Comprehension: Art of the mind’s eye;
Clil Activity: Art Gallery;
Homework: compose a layout of different shapes and different textures.
Reading Comprehension: Elements of Art–shape and texture;
Grammar revision: prepositions of place–on, under, above, over, in front of, next to, ecc…
Grammar revision: prepositions of place–inside, outside, at the bottom of, at the topo of, ecc…
Grammar revision: Adjectives order–Fact and opinion adjectives.
How + adjectives–what + nouns;
Conversation: group work activity - Artists–drawing instructions;
Reading: Principles of Art.
Comparison: using like and alike; the same (as); similar to; different from;
Conversation: Group work - from daily routines to art processes using first, second, then, after that, finally.
Homework: shapes and patterns; how to create your work of art;
Brainstorming activity - how to you achieve unity in art?
Reading Comprehension: The principles of Art: balance, variety, harmony, emphasis, proportion, pattern,
movement, rhythm.

Accademia di Belle Arti di Sassari – Docente di Lingua Inglese: Prof.ssa Franca Piras
 PROGRAMMA DI INGLESE 2009-2010
Clil Activity(learning by doing): Using the Elements of Art–follow the instructions and draw the elements of
art on paper.
Clil Activity(learning by doing): Using the Principles of Art–follow the instructions and draw simple shapes
using colours, pensils, watercolour to represent the principles of art on paper.
Reading Comprehension: The Art Criticism Model by Bates–Motivation, Identification, Description, Analysis,
Interpretation, Evaluation.
Matching exercise: Principles of art and their definitions;
Reading Comprehension: Using a Design chart to evaluate works of art;
Bibliografia:
Experincing Art around us by Thomas Buser - Ed. Thomson-Wadsworth;
Elementary Vocabulary Games by Jill Hadfield - Ed. Nelson
Art in Focus by Gene Mitter - Ed. McGraw Hill Glencoe
Art Talk by Rosalind Ragans - Ed. McGraw Hill Glencoe
Understanding Art by Gene Mitter–Ed. McGraw Hill Glencoe
Sitografia:
http://www.awesomeartists.com/ART/mTableOfContentsTheABCsOfArt.htm
www.visual.merriam-webster.com
www.garzantilinguistica.it
www.dictionary.com
http://www.chrisfisherart.com/
http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm

SASSARI, 16 agosto 2010 IL DOCENTE

PROF.SSA FRANCA PIRAS

Accademia di Belle Arti di Sassari – Docente di Lingua Inglese: Prof.ssa Franca Piras