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Exercises

Which branch of the arts do you think these people are talking about?
Example: 'It was a strong cast but the play itself is weak.' Theatre
1 'It's called Peace. It stands in the main square.'
2 'Animation doesn't have to be just Disney, you know.'
3 'It was just pure movement, with very exciting rhythms.'
4 'It doesn't have to rhyme to be good.'
5 'Oils to me don't have the delicacy of water-colours.'
6 'Her design for the new shopping centre won an award.'
7 'I read them and imagine what they'd be like on stage.'
8 'The first chapter was boring but it got better later.'
9 'I was falling asleep by the second act.'

42.2 Definite article or not? Fill the gap with the if necessary.
1 The government doesn't give enough money to ................ arts.
2 She's got a diploma in ................ dance from the Performing Arts Academy.
3 I've got some tickets for ................ ballet. Interested?
4 ................ art of writing a short story is to interest the reader from the very first line.
5 I can't stand ................ modern poetry; it's so pretentious.
6 I was no good at ................ art at school. What about you?

Each one of these sentences contains a mistake of usage of words connected with the arts.
Find the mistake and correct it. You may need a dictionary.
Example: The scene at this theatre projects right out into the audience.
not 'scene' but 'stage' (the place where the actors perform)
1 What's the name of the editorial of that book you recommended? Was it Cambridge
University Press?
2 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' is my favourite verse of English poetry.
3 He's a very famous sculpture; he did that statue in the park, you know, the one with the
soldiers.
4 Most of the novels in this collection are only five or six pages long. They're great for
reading on short journeys.
5 There's an exposition of ceramic at the museum next week.
6 The sceneries are excellent in that new production of Macbeth, so dark and mysterious.
7 What's in the Opera House next week? Anything interesting?

42.4 Ask questions for which these remarks would be suitable answers.
Example: It's an oil on canvas. What sort of painting is it?
1 Yes, it got rave reviews.
2 No, I'm not really a concert-goer, but thanks anyway.
3 Oh, some beautiful old buildings and some ugly new ones.
4 The cast were fine, but the direction was weak.
5 A new Hungarian film; fancy going to see it?
Follow-up: Make sure you can name all the parts of a typical theatre in English. A picture-
dictionary might help you.

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