Unit
5
Picasso’s birthplace
Ask students where they were born. Ask if anyone in the class
(or any members of their families) has an interesting birthplace.
Get ready to read
Check the answers with the class. Then ask students if they can
give more specifi c information about where Picasso was born, grew
up, spent his adult life and died. For example:
He died at Mougins
near Cannes in the south of France
.
Ask students if they have seen
any of Picasso’s works. Where and when did they see them?
A
Picasso museums
Elicit that students are going to read about more than one
museum.
1
Check students know where Málaga is (Spain).
2–5
Students do the exercises. Encourage students to decide if
they should be scanning or skimming
when they read for the
answers of each exercise.
6
Discuss another example with the class before the students
work on their own sentences. Ask students to complete a
sentence about the Fundación Municipal beginning
I looked
around for a while
. Encourage them to use their imagination.
7–8
Refer
students to the
Learning tip
to help them complete
these exercises.
9
Ask students which museum they would prefer to visit if they
only had time to visit one of them.
Did you know …?
Ask students what they know about the painting
Guernica
. (It
was painted by Picasso in 1937 for
the World Fair in Paris, where
he was living. It expressed his horror at the bombing of the
Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. During
the Second World War, the painting
was moved to the United
States for reasons of safety and only returned to Spain in 1981.)
If students do not know anything about the painting, you could
encourage them to do some research on the Internet.
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