Incredible English 5 Extended Reading and Writing

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Reading

2 Pop art

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1 Read the text quickly and label the pictures A, B and C.

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The history
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of numbers 3

4 The invention of photography

5 Unusual musical instruments

6 British food traditions

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Pop art is a style of art from the 1950s and Andy Warhol was born in the USA in 1928.
All about giraffes
1960s. In many parts of the world life was He is famous for his prints. He used a special
changing fast at that time. For the first time, process to make prints from photos. He loved
people were driving fast cars, eating fast food, films, and liked making pictures of famous
watching colour television and listening to film actors. Picture B is made of four prints

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pop music. There were lots of new things in
the shops, and there were lots of adverts. The
adverts were bright and colourful, and they
of the actor Marilyn Monroe. It has got lots
of different colours. Andy Warhol’s pictures
of Marilyn Monroe are very famous. He
attracted people’s attention. also made lots of paintings and prints of

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Campbell’s soup tins. Campbell’s was his
Sailing in the 16th century
Pop artists were interested in modern things
like adverts and television. They wanted to
favourite soup!
make art that was popular and fun. They Claes Oldenburg was another American
made pictures and sculptures of ordinary Pop artist. He was born in 1929. He made

Term 1 A treasure map


things. There were lots of Pop artists in Britain
and the USA. Here you can read about three
enormous sculptures of ordinary things, like
toothpaste tubes, apple cores and binoculars.
famous Pop artists. Picture C is a photo of a giant saw sculpture.
You can’t use it!
Patrick Caulfield was one of the first Pop
Term 2 Nonsense poems
artists. He was born in 1936 in England. He
painted lots of pictures of ordinary things and
the insides of rooms, using bright colours and
thick black lines. Picture A is a painting of
Term 3 Sandybridge Island
the inside of a room. Perhaps it is a kitchen?
There are some leeks in a basket, and some
oysters.

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Reading
2 Find these words in the text. Write.
1 a kind of fish that live in shells in the sea = o __ __ __ __ __

2 vegetables that are green and white = l __ __ __ __

3 a 3D work of art = a s __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

4 very big = g __ __ __ __

3 Read the text again and write T (true) or F (false).

1 There wasn’t any pop music in the 1960s. ___

2 Pop artists liked modern things. ___

3 Andy Warhol was an American Pop artist. ___

4 Claes Oldenburg made paintings of binoculars. ___

4 Complete the crossword.


Clues:
Across )
2 Patrick Caulfield used thick black ___ in 1

his pictures.
4 Patrick Caulfield often painted the insides
of ___.
5 Claes Oldenburg made lots of big ___. 2 3
L
7 Andy Warhol made prints from ___. 4

Down º
1 Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and 5

Patrick Caulfield were all Pop ___.


3 What nationality was Patrick Caulfield?
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He was ___.
5 Andy Warhol liked Campbell’s ___. 7

6 Where was Claes Oldenburg from?


The ___.

5 Read and answer.


Imagine you are a Pop artist. Imagine you are making a giant sculpture of an ordinary thing.
What is it? How big is it?

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