Prime Time 5, Coursebook mit Audio-CD

Check-out NOW yOU CAN ✔ Talk about strange realities and illusions. ✔ Discuss short stories and analyse story elements. ✔ Develop a story line and write a short story yourself. ✔ Talk about pictures. ✔ Use modal verbs and their substitutes. 1 your turn: A talk show in class In small groups, prepare a talk show on the topic “Reality shows on TV”. Half of the group prepares arguments in favour of reality shows, half of the group is against them. One person is the talk show host who leads the discussion. Act out the show in front of the whole class. 2 Writing: A short story You have been asked to take part in an English writing competition. Write a story beginning or ending with the words: We were waiting outside the headmaster’s office and I felt close to fainting. 3 Language in use: Word formation You are going to read a text about the painter Vincent van Gogh. Some words are missing from the text. Use the words in brackets to complete each gap (1–10). Write your answers in the spaces provided at the end of the text. The first one (0) has been done for you. Vincent van Gogh is probably the most well … (0 know ) and most … (Q1 influence ) painter of the 19 th century. Being the son of a Dutch pastor, he first worked for art dealers together with his brother Theo. During his life, van Gogh lived in various places … (Q2 include ) Brussels, The Hague, Antwerp and Drenthe. While … (Q3 travel ) , he taught himself to draw and paint, but he also worked as an English … (Q4 teach ) . He moved to Paris at the age of 33 and shared an apartment with his brother Theo, who was working in an art gallery. In Paris, he first came into contact with the works of the … (Q5 impress ) . Among van Gogh’s works are flower … (Q6 paint ) , portraits, self portraits and images of Paris. He began his career by … (Q7 draw ) the countryside where he lived. Typical of his way of painting is his use of symbols for his emotions, like cloudy, … (Q8 rain ) days and crows flying over fields symbolising … (Q9 sad ) . One of van Gogh’s most famous paintings is Sunflowers , which was auctioned for over $36 million in 1995. In the last years of his life he spent time in an insane asylum and … (Q10 eventual ) – at the age of 37 – took his own life. 0 known Q1 Q6 Q2 Q7 Q3 Q8 Q4 Q9 Q5 Q10 Can take part in routine formal discussion of familiar subjects […]. (B1) Can write a description of an event […] – real or imagined. (B1) ✔ 85 6 Strange realities Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv