Prime Time 7/8, Language in Use, Arbeitsheft

Word formation: Does folk art include your nan’s knitting? You are going to read text about an art exhibition in London. Some words are missing from the text. Use the words in brackets to complete each gap (1–12) in the text. Write your answers in the spaces provided at the end of the text. The first one (0) has been done for you. One of the glories of Tate Britain’s new summer show is a single, massive leather boot, nearly 3 foot long and officially … (0 size ) at 74. It looks exactly like something a giant would wear. The first question is – why does such a smart giant need only one boot? And the second one is, what is it doing here anyway? This is Tate Britain and not Tate Modern, so hardly the obvious home for … (Q1 concept ) art. Even when you learn that the title of this summer’s … (Q2 exhibit ) is British Folk Art, the monstrous boot doesn’t make immediate sense. “Folk art”, if it conjures anything more than blank stares, is assumed to denote samplers, corn dollies and quilts, the … (Q3 produce ) of an emphatically rural culture. This boot by contrast hung outside a Northampton cobbler for decades, a sign to the unlettered that here was a place to get your footwear fixed. In the Tate’s exhibition it sits alongside other stuff from the … (Q4 industry ) world: pub signs, funny jugs, ships’ figureheads, all made by artisans and workers who may be accounted at least semi-skilled. “We decided to back away from providing … (Q5 define ) of folk art” explains co-curator Martin Myrone. Myrone and his colleagues Ruth Kenny and Jeff McMillan embarked on a country-wide rummage in museum vaults for objects that had already been … (Q6 label ) as “folk” by local curators. In practice, this often meant items that had … (Q7 arrival ) decades earlier and that no one had ever quite known what to do with: a sporting print or a weather vane. The borders between high and low, art and artefact, have been troubled and troubling ever since people started … (Q8 choice ) what to hang on their walls. When the Royal Academy was established in 1769, it made a point of … (Q9 declaration ) that “no needlework, artificial flowers, cut paper, shell work or any such baubles should be … (Q10 admit ) ” within its elite precincts. No place, then, for the work of Mary Linwood, the 18 th -century needleworker whose embroidered pictures feature in the Tate’s exhibition. Linwood, from Leicester, made a fortune out of her “needle paintings” of well-known contemporary works by Reynolds, Gainsborough and Stubbs. Looked at afresh, Linwood’s work is somewhere between the downright ugly and the slyly smart. You could easily mistake her pictures for a clever … (Q11 investigate ) into what happens when high-art images, such as Rembrandt’s Mother or Gainsborough’s TheWoodman mutate into the lower status medium of embroidery. … (Q12 alternative ) , you might just as easily stumble across them when clearing out your late great aunt’s bungalow. (Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian , 23 May 2014; adapted and abridged) 0 sized Q1 Q7 Q2 Q8 Q3 Q9 Q4 Q10 Q5 Q11 Q6 Q12 10 ✔ 112 Sample Matura tasks S Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv