11th May 2012

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2012 | Ep. 49| The Scream Sold for $120m

Part 1 | Warm Ups

Odd-One-Out Page 3

Brainstorm Page 3

Famous Painters Page 3

Famous Paintings Page 4

Quiz | The Scream Page 4

Part 2 | Before Listening / Reading

Jumbled Sentences Page 5

True or False Page 5

Vocabulary | Synonyms Page 5

Part 3 | Listening / Reading

The News Story Page 6

What Do You Think..? Page 6

Part 4 | After Listening / Reading

Q & A Page 7

A & Q Page 7

Part 5 | Extra Stuff

Extra English I Page 8

7 to Chinwag Page 8

Writing Activity Page 9

And Finally….

Did You Know? Page 9

TV Links Page 10

The Answers Pages 10-12

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2012 | Ep. 49| The Scream Sold for $120m

[201205-01] The Scream Sold for $120m | May 11th 2012

| PART 1 | Warm Ups |

Warm Up | 1 Odd 1 Out

Look at the four words below, which word is different from the other three?

Write your reason in the box underneath. Check your answer later.

a) Draw b) Print c) Paint d) Sketch

My Reason… _____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________

Warm Up | 2 Brainstorm

How many different words can you connect to the word in the box? Can you think of at least 10 words? Why do you think this?

|Paintings|

Warm Up | 3 Which Painter?

Look at the list of famous painters.

What style of paintings are they known for?

Match the painter with a famous picture from page 4.

1: Leonardo da Vinci ___ 5: Vincent Van Gough ___

2: Claude Monet ___ 6: JMW Turner ___

3: Pablo Picasso ___ 7: Edvard Munch ___

4: Johannes Vermeer ___ 8: Katsushika Hokusai ___

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2012 | Ep. 49| The Scream Sold for $120m

Paintings | Who Painted..?

Look at the list of 8 famous paintings below – which famous painter painted

them? Look at page 3 for the list of names.

A B C D

E F G H

Warm Up | 4 | A1 Quiz

Read the questions about the new story.

Remember if you don’t know – use the internet to help or GUESS!

1: Who painted The Scream? a: Picasso b: Munch c: Van Gough

2: What country did The Scream painter come from? a: France b: Holland c: Norway

3: How much was The Scream sold for? a: $120m b: $150m c: $180m

4: Which city was The Scream painting sold? a: New York b: London c: Oslo

5: How many versions of The Scream were painted? a: 2 b: 4 c: 6

6: What year was The Scream stolen from an Oslo art gallery? a: 1894 b: 1954 c: 1994

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E1: What school of art does The Scream belong to? a: Expressionist b: Impressionist c: Landscape

E2: What Hollywood horror movie uses the face of The Scream as masks? a: Halloween b: Scream c: Nightmare on Elm Street

E3: Which photograph is the world’s most expensive painting? ($250m)

a: b: c:

END OF PART 1

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2012 | Ep. 49| The Scream Sold for $120m

| PART 2 | Before Listening |

Pre-Listening / Reading | 1 Jumbled Sentences

The sentences below are from a paragraph in the news story. The sentence order has been mixed-up. Un-jumble the sentences and put them

into the correct order.

[A] The previous highest price was for Pablo Picasso’s Nude Green Leaves and Bust which was sold in 2010 for $106.5 million.

[B] However, The Scream is not the most expensive painting ever sold, that is believed to be Paul Cézanne’s The Card Players which was sold privately for between $250m - $350 million in 2011. [C] The painting was sold at Sotheby’s Auction House in New York last week and has become the most expensive painting sold at an auction in history.

Correct order: ___ / ___ / ___ /

Pre-Listening / Reading | 2 | A2 True or False

Read the headline of News Story ~ The Scream Sets New Highest Fee

Look at the 5 statements. Guess if you think 1 – 5 are True or False!

1: The Scream has been sold in New York. [T] [F] 2: The Scream was sold for €119.9 million. [T] [F]

3: Edvard Munch was a Finnish artist. [T] [F]

4: The Scream & the Mona Lisa were painted by the same man. [T] [F] 5: The Scream is not the most expensive painting ever sold. [T] [F]

Pre-Listening / Reading | 3 Synonyms

A synonym is a word with a similar meaning. Match the 10 words on the left with their synonyms on the right. All the synonyms in black are from the News Story.

1: Spend 6: Believed A: Costly F: Cash

2: Money 7: Unhappy B: Form G: Naked

3: Artist 8: Expensive C: Before H: Thought

4: Previous 9: Cartoons D: Sad I: Animation

5: Nude 10: Version E: Pay-Out J: Painter

END OF PART 2

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| PART 3 | Listening |

Listening / Reading | | Listening The Scream Sets New Highest Fee

Three Choices | Help

Listen / Read the news story and chose the correct word from the 3 choices. Listen / Read the rest of the sentence to help with your understanding.

The Scream Sets New Highest Fee

How long do you think it takes to spend just under $12o million? What would you 1: buy/own/sell if you had so much money? Well, if you are one very rich and unknown 2: painter/art/artist lover in New York the answer is simple…You would buy a painting by Norway’s most famous artist, Edvard Munch for an amazing 3: price/fee/charge of $119,900,000!

The painting was sold at Sotheby’s Auction House in New York last week and has become the most expensive painting sold at an auction in history. The previous 4: lowest/biggest/highest price was for Pablo Picasso’s Nude Green Leaves and Bust which was sold in 2010 for $106.5 million. However, The Scream is not the most expensive painting ever 5: sold/bought/stolen that is believed to be Paul Cézanne’s The Card Players which was sold privately for between $250m - $350 million in 6: 1811/1911/2011.

Edvard Munch, the Norwegian painter of The Scream, actually painted 7: four/five/six different versions of the strange unhappy person walking along an Oslo path with a 8: blue/red/white sky behind him. The pastel version was the one sold at auction last week; the other three copies painted in oil, tempera and on cardboard are still in Norwegian museums.

Why was the painting so expensive? Art advisor Michael Frahm told Associated Press Agency that “Together with the Mona Lisa, it’s the most 9: known/famous/expensive and recognised image in art history. It has been used by everyone from Andy Warhol to Hollywood movies to cartoons and on 10: T-shirts/Soda cans/Mobile phones”.

Oh and how long did it take to buy The Scream? Just under 12 minutes.

What Do You Think? | $120 Million

What would you buy if you had $120 million? Why? ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________

END OF PART 3

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| PART 4 | After Listening |

Post-Listening / Reading | 1 | A3 Q & A

How much can you remember from News Story?

Read / Listen to the questions below and choose the correct answer.

If you can’t remember any answers, guess!

1: How much did The Scream sell for exactly? 2: Who bought The Scream painting?

__________________________ 3: Who painted Nude Green Leaves & Bust?

_ 4: Who painted The Card Players? ________ 5: What colour is the sky in The Scream? __________________________ 6: Which country are the other 3 versions of The Scream in? __________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

B E1: What was the name of the art advisor? ___________________________

E2: How many famous paintings are in the news story? ________________ _____

Post-Reading | 2 A & Q

How much can you remember from the news story? Read the answers below and write the correct question. There is more than one possible correct question for each one!

[A1] Edvard Munch. [Q] _____________________________?

[A2] Michael Frahm. [Q] _____________________________?

[A3] $106.5m [Q] _____________________________?

[A4] Sotheby’s. [Q] _____________________________?

[A5] Four Painters. [Q] _____________________________?

END OF PART 4

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| PART 5 | Extra Stuff |

English Extra I Advanced Connectors 1

In ENW Episode 40 four basic connectors were introduced. Can you remember them?

Connectors are words that connect ideas together in a sentence to make longer and better English sentences.

English has many situations where other more advanced connectors can be used. Put the correct connectors into their correct categories.

There are 2 answers for each category.

Therefore Likewise In addition Consequently

Moreover Yet Similarly Firstly/Secondly

Before/After For instance However When

For example In conclusion Next In summary

Giving

Examples

Showing

Differences

Showing

Results

Adding

Information

Showing

Similarities

Time

Relationships

Conclusions Order &

Sequence

7 to Chinwag Paintings

ENW Podcast Topic | The Scream Sets New Highest Fee

Ask / Answer the questions below on this week’s ENW Podcast Topic!

1: What did you think when you read this week’s topic title? 2: What do you think of when you see the word ‘art’? 3: What do you think of when you see the Mona Lisa? 4: What painting is your favourite? Why? 5: What was the best museum you have been to? 6: Do you think The Scream is worth $120 million? Why? 7: If money was no problem, what one thing would you like to buy? Why?

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Writing Art & Paintings

What do you think about the two most expensive paintings in the world? Are paintings really important? Write about your favourite painter / artist? Why do you like them? How

many of their paintings have you seen? What is your favourite painting? What painting would you really like to look at?

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END OF PART 5

And Finally | X & Z | A4 Did You Know…?

That two of the versions of The Scream have been stolen from

museums in Norway. The first was stolen in 1994 from the

National Galley in Oslo. x: ______ it was recovered two

months later. The Scream on display in the Munch Museum

in Norway was stolen in 2004. z: ______nearly two years it was

also found and is now back in the museum.

The End

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Visual | TV Links

Al Jazeera| (Qatar) 1: http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2012/05/20125215655154654.html [1:26]

[The Scream]

ABC Net | (Australia) 2: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Video+Tsunami+survivor+football+found+Alaska/6503621/story.html [1:08]

[The Scream]

CNN | (USA) 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9yBOiKTSqY&feature=related [1:20] [The Scream]

Podcast | Key

| A1 These activities are audio and can be listened to on the podcast.

Answers | Part 1 Warm Up 1-4

Warm Up 1 | Odd-1-Out

B – Print A/C/D – all refer to art work.

Warm Up 3 | Pacific Ocean

1 – B 2 – H 3 – G 4 – A

5 – E 6 – F 7 – C 8 – D

Warm Up 4 | Quiz

1 – B 2 – C 3 – A 4 – A 5 – B 6 - C

E1 – A E2 – B E3 – C

Answers | Part 2 Pre Listening / Reading

Jumbled Sentences

C / A / B

True or False

1 – T 2 – F 3 – F 4 – F 5 – T

Synonyms

1 – E 2 – F 3 – J 4 – C 5 – G

6 – H 7 – D 8 – A 9 – I 10 – B

Answers | Part 3 Listening

The Scream Sets New Highest Fee

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2012 | Ep. 49| The Scream Sold for $120m

How long do you think it takes to spend just under $12o million? What would you buy if you had so much money? Well, if you are one very rich and unknown art lover in New York the answer is simple - you would buy a painting by Norway’s most famous artist, Edvard Munch for an amazing fee of $119,900,000!

The painting was sold at Sotheby’s Auction House in New York last week and has become the most expensive painting sold at an auction in history. The previous highest price was for Pablo Picasso’s Nude Green Leaves and Bust which was sold in 2010 for $106.5 million. However, The Scream is not the most expensive painting ever sold, that is believed to be Paul Cézanne’s The Card Players which was sold privately for between $250m - $350 million in 2011.

Edvard Munch, the Norwegian painter of The Scream, actually painted four different versions of the strange unhappy person walking along an Oslo path with a red sky behind him. The pastel version was the one sold at auction last week; the other three copies painted in oil, tempera and on cardboard are still in Norwegian museums.

Why was the painting so expensive? Art advisor Michael Frahm told Associated Press Agency that “Together with the Mona Lisa, it’s the most famous and recognised image in art history. It has been used by everyone from Andy Warhol to Hollywood movies to cartoons and on T-shirts”.

Oh and how long did it take to buy The Scream? Just under 12 minutes.

Answers | Part 4 Post-Listening / Reading

Q & A

1 – $119.9m 5 – Red 2 – Unknown Person 6 – Norway 3 – Pablo Picasso E1 – Michael Frahm 4 – Cezanne E2 – Four

A & Q | Example Questions

A1 – Who painted The Scream? A2 – What is the name of the art advisor? A3 – How much did Nude Green Leaves & Bust sell for? A4 – What was the name of the auction house? A5 – How many painters are in the news story?

English Extra

Giving

Examples

Showing

Differences

Showing

Results

Adding

Information For example For instance

Yet Moreover

Consequently Therefore

However In Addition

Showing

Similarities

Time

Relationships

Conclusions Order &

Sequence Similarly Likewise

Before / After When

In Conclusion In Summary

Next Firstly / Secondly

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And Finally X & Z

X – However / Z – After References Episode 49

MAIN PHOTO / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Scream.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mona_Lisa,_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci,_from_C2RMF_retouched.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johannes_Vermeer_(1632-1675)_-_The_Girl_With_The_Pearl_Earring_(1665).jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vincent_van_Gogh_Starry_Night.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shipwreck_turner.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TheSickChild-by-EdvardMunch-FourthVersion.jpg PICASSO, la exposición del Reina-Prado. Guernica is in the collection of Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid. http://www.picassotradicionyvanguardia.com/08R.php (archive.org) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Claude_Monet_Houses_of_Parliament.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Fuji_southern_wind_clear_morning.jpg http://www.fanpop.com/spots/the-simpsons-movie/images/123388/title/simpson-scream-fanart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_scream http://www.munch.museum.no/?id=&mid=&lang=en http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/arts/design/the-scream-sells-for-nearly-120-million-at-sothebys-auction.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17926519