Describing a Painting in English

It is important to be able to describe an object or a painting in English. I would like you to watch this video describing a painting by Van Gogh: Starry Night

 

Your  Task

Now choose a painting that you like and try to make a presentation of  it: you will have to observe and describe the image of the painting and then explain what you can see , the technique used by the painter and what kind of images and colours  he/she chose.

Good luck for your work! 

Autumn

 

Which images do you associate to Autumn?   Do you know the American  word for  Autumn?  It’s Fall: why?

Now look at this painting : what does it present? How do you feel? Does this painting have any message for us?

Try to describe what the painter focussed on  in this  painting: how do you perceive nature?  What colours have been chosen? Why?

"Autumn, 1990", Andrei Kushnir
Attribution :By Oles333 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Choose one of these  paintings and write  a  short description of it in English: use about 200-300 words.

Wywiórski Park in autumn

Michał Gorstkin-Wywiórski [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

 

Van Gogh - Pappelallee im Herbst

Vincent van Gogh [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AVan_Gogh_-_Pappelallee_im_Herbst.jpeg

 

Monet - Herbst in Argentueil

Claude Monet [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Searching and finding information online about a place or a person. Making a presentation by using an image and writing a text in English

Today we can rely on many tools online that can help us  make presentations.
Thinglink is very simple to use. You need to have an account- you need to register and  then you can create images with links to videos, pictures or texts online.
Here is a Thinglink about  New York: do you like it ?https://www.thinglink.com/scene/662725525973762049


Homework and activity based on a topic and a picture for using English

1- First  check it and try to understand how you could use it for your presentations

2- Think about a place you like and  search for information about it ( images, data): write a short text about it in English and choose  a picture that you like to add to your  text.