Date Form Subject: English Theme: Shadows in painting Aims: Educational

III. Main part
What do the shadows in a painting tell us?
• Point to the painting and ask What can you see? (A girl/woman in a street with a bike.) Then ask Where are the shadows? What do shadows in a painting tell us? (Students guess.)


Activity 1 Listen and repeat.
• Say Let’s find out more about shadows in paintings. Play the recording, pausing for students to repeat. If necessary, explain the meaning using your lamp.
• Ask questions about the painting on page 12. Say Look at the shadows. Where does the light come from? Does it come from above or from the side? Is it from behind her or in front of her?





Activity 2 Watch the video.
• Play the video.

• If you don’t have the video, call a volunteer to the front and ask him/her to put one hand in front of the lamp. Ask the class to guess what will happen if the student moves his/her hand farther away from the light. Will the shadow be bigger or smaller? Let the student try and see what happens (it gets bigger). Repeat with the student moving his/her hand nearer the light source.


Activity 3 Read and listen.

• Play the recording while students read the text. Then play the recording again, pausing to check comprehension.
• Ask some general comprehension questions, e.g., Is the Sun high or low in the sky in the summer? (It’s high.) Where is the Sun if the shadow is on the right? (It’s on the left.)


Activity 4 Answer the questions.
• Students answer the questions and compare in pairs.


1. What’s different about shadows in summer paintings and in winter paintings?
2. Why do we see long shadows in winter paintings?
3. Are shadows shorter in the morning or at midday?
4. Look at the painting on page 12. Where is the Sun?


Key: 1 The shadows in summer paintings are short, in winter paintings they’re long. 2 Because the light comes from the side (the Sun is lower in the sky). 3 They’re shorter at midday. 4 The Sun is behind the woman and the bike.