Materials Pictures of landscape paintings with
shadows (optional)
Warmer •
Play
Drawing game (see page xv), making a landscape
picture on the board, line by line (e.g., of sheep in a
field, with trees with no leaves). When your picture is
finished, add some long shadows and ask
What season is it? (
Winter. )
How do you know? (
Because the shadows are long/the Sun is low in the sky. ) Briefly review the
information about shadows in paintings from the
previous lesson.
Student’s Book page 1 3 6 Paint a picture that shows a season. Write about it and say where the Sun and shadows are. •
Say
Let’s find more paintings that show seasons .
Students look at the example drawing and read the text.
Ask
What season is it? (
Spring. )
Are the shadows long or short? (
Quite short. )
How do we know the Sun is on the left? (
Because the shadows are on the right. )
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Then say
Now let’s draw and write about another painting . Divide students into groups and allow them
to work with books or class computers to choose and
research a landscape painting. Suggest paintings if
necessary (e.g.,
Morning Shadows, by Barbara Fox,
Evening Shadows, by Julia Swartz,
Woman with a Parasol , by Claude Monet,
Painter on the Road to Tarascon, by Vincent Van Gogh). They will need to
find out and note down the name of the painting and
the artist and then make notes about whether the
shadows are long or short and which direction they’re
coming from. (Alternatively, students can find out this
information at home before the lesson and share it with
their group in this stage of the activity.)
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Students then draw their version of the painting and
work together to write a description. Check their writing
and ask each member of the group to write out a neat
version.
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Groups present their picture to the class and talk about
it (each student in the group can say one sentence).
Alternatively, make new groups in which each student
has information about a different painting. They take
turns showing their pictures and describe them.
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The pictures and texts can then be displayed in the
classroom, or kept in folders of students’ work.
