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1 article (The arts relates to all the things in the network on the left-hand page.)
2 no article (the subject in general)
3 article (a particular performance)
4 article (the techniquelcreative requirements)
5 no article (modern poetry in general - all of it)
6 no article (the speaker is talking about drawing and painting)
1 What's the name of the publisher of that book you recommended? Was it Cambridge
University Press? (An editorial is an article in a newspaper or magazine giving the opinions of
the editor on matters of interestlconcern.)
2 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' is my favourite line of English poetry. (A verse is a collection of
lines separated from the next verse by a space.)
3 He's a very famous sculptor: he did that statue in the park, you know, the one with the
soldiers. (Sculpture is the name of the art form; sculptor is the person who does it.)
4 Most of the (short) stories in this collection are only five or six pages long. They're great for
reading on short journeys. (A novel is a long work (usually more than 100 pages). Here short
story or just story is clearly what the speaker is referring to.)
5 There's an exhibition of ceramics at the museum next week. (Exposition is only used in very
formal academic texts to talk about how an argument is presented. Ceramics as the name of
the art form is always plural.)
6 The sets are excellent in that new production of Macbeth, so dark and mysterious. (Scenery is
uncountable and refers to natural beauty in the landscape, e.g. 'There's some wonderful
scenery on the west coast of Ireland'. The attempt to represent a place on a theatre stage is
called the set.)
7 What's on at the Opera House next week? Anything interesting? (When we want to know
what events are taking place, what a cinema is showing, etc., we use the question what's on?
We also need a preposition for opera houss; in this case, at is the best one.)

Suitable questions:
1 Was the play a success?
2 Would you like a ticket for the Beethoven tonight?
3 What's the architecture like in your home-town?
4 Was it a good production?
5 What are they showing at the Arts Cinema at the moment? or What's on at the cinema?

Follow-up:

Unit 43

43.1 Possible groupings:
Found in salads: cucumber greedred pepper lettuce radish
'Onion-family'vegetables: leek shallot garlic onion
Grow underground: potato carrot turnip
Usually long-shaped: aubergine courgette sweetcorn
There are, of course, other possible groups too.

English Vocabulary in Use