Daily assignment for the10th form

Look at the photo and answer the questions:

• What can you see on the photo?
• Where is it taken?
• Have you ever been to museum or art gallery?

Today, we will learn about the place where you can enjoy art, about museums and galleries. So, let's start.

Step 1. Warm up.

Take a video-tour to the National Gallery in London:

Step 2. Pre-listening task.

Explain the meaning of the words and phrases below:

• a handy map
•  an entrance ticket
•  to avoid the crowds
•  to borrow an audio guide for fee
•  photography is permitted
•  be organised into ‘wings’
• a personal discovery

Step 3. Listening.

Listen to the advise and find out what you should do to get an audio guide 

Click HERE to listen

Step 4. Listening.

Listen again, and answer the questions:

1. Do you need to buy a map?
2.  What should you visit fi rst?
3.  When should you see the galleries that most interest you? Why?
4.  Where can you have lunch?
5.  What should you do in the afternoon?
6.  Can you take photographs?
7.  Do you have to pay for audio guides?
8.  What do you have to remember if you borrow one? Why?

Step 5. Reading.

In your textbooks open page 176 and read the text in exercise 5. Read the information and describe your visit there.

Example "Last month I have been to the National Gallery in London. It was founded in..... I've seen there beutifull paintings of......"