a. melt • think of another time
b. remember • red liquid in the body
c. strange • turn to liquid
d. blood • unusual
Complete the sentences using the words from the box.
Studied broke painter showed strange dreams liquid melt blood remember
a. Salvador Dali was a famous____________.
b. Dali____________ at the San Fernando Royal Academy.
c. Dali's paintings often____________ deserts.
d. Dali filled a large egg with red____________ and broke it outside his house.
e. Sigmund Freud wrote a book about____________.
f. The red liquid in the egg looked like____________.
g. Ice will____________ if you make it hot.
h. Dali's pictures were very____________.
i. Many people____________ Dali more than they do his paintings.
Choose and write the correct word.
a. Jane always wears such beautiful____________. I wonder where she buys them. hair/clothes
b. I am reading a very___________ book. interesting/open
c. I'm really happy because this is the___________ of the holidays. beginning/begin
d. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have many beautiful___________ in their house. painters/paintings
Looking for detail
Answer these questions about the story.
a. When did Dali start to paint?
b. What did many of Dali's paintings look like?
c. When was Dali really happy?
d. What was Dali still doing even when he was very old?
e. Why did Dali like reading a book by Freud?
f. What kind of painter was Dali?
g. Dali did not only paint pictures. What other things did he do?
h. What does 'this' refer to in paragraph 2?
i. Why do you think Dali said that red liquid coming out of an egg meant 'the beginning of life?
Complete the following sentences. Your answers must come from the story.
a. Dali started painting when___________.
b. Dali soon became famous because of his___________.
c. One of Dali's most famous paintings shows___________.
d. Dali liked people to watch him___________.
e. Dali was___________ he died.
Picture comprehension
Make a tick under the picture of Dali showing the beginning of life. Say why you think this picture is correct.
Organizing ideas
Read the sentences below and tick the five most important ones. Write them in the correct order to make a summary of the story.
a. Salvador Dali was an interesting painter who started painting when he was young.
b. After that a lot of his paintings looked like dreams.
c. People liked watching him.
d. Then he read a book by Sigmund Freud about dreams.
e. He liked jewels.
f. He also did other things like making clothes and films.
g. He went to the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts to study.
h. He was still painting when he was an old man and he died in 1989.
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Writing
Choose the correct word from the following pairs of words and write each one in the correct blank.
liking/like remembered/remember make/making when/because broke/break
a. Salvador Dali started painting_______________ he was a young boy.
b. Later he went to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts where many people_______________ him for his strange clothes.
c. He read a book by Sigmund Freud about dreams and after that a lot of his paintings looked_______________ dreams.
d. He also liked_______________ clothes and films.
e. He once made a large egg and_______________ it and he was still painting when he was an old man.
UNIT 9
Levi Strauss
Pre-reading activity
1. What color are jeans usually?
2. When do you think the first jeans were worn?
3. Do you ever wear jeans?
Levi Strauss was born in Bavaria in Europe in 1829. He moved to America when he was 17 years old. His brothers sold cloth, and he worked for them although he could not speak English very well. At this time many people were moving to California because there was gold there. Strauss went to look for gold, too.
Strauss took a lot of cloth with him to San Francisco. He thought it would make good tents in the gold fields. But when he got there, he saw that people needed clothes more than they needed tents. Clothes did not last very long in the gold fields. At first Strauss made pants out of canvas. They were very strong - much stronger than other pants. Soon everyone was wearing them. He decided that he would stop looking for gold and would only make pants. He opened a small shop and made a lot of money from selling pants.
After a while, Strauss found an even stronger cloth than canvas. It came from a town in France called Nimes. The French called it 'serge de Nimes' which means 'cloth from Nimes’. The Americans called it 'denim'. Strauss also bought some cloth from Genoa, a town in Italy. To Americans this name sounded like 'jeans' so they called his pants 'jeans'. The cloth Strauss used was always blue so people also called his pants 'blue jeans' and 'blue denims'. Other people called them 'Levi's'.
Today Levi Strauss jeans are one of the best-selling jeans in the world. They last a long time and are very comfortable.
New words
tent: People who live in the desert often live in tents.
pants: It was a cold day so I wore pants to keep my legs warm.
canvas: The sailor's bag was made of canvas, so it was very strong.
decide: Which dress shall I buy? I can't decide.
comfortable: The chair was so comfortable I went to sleep in it.
Main idea
