Totally True 3, Unit 16 “Animal Artists”

These are an introductory and an extension activity for TT 3 unit 16.  You should copy the PDFs to your Z drive or to a USB flash memory. 

Introductory activity: 

1. Tell the students to keep their books closed.  Put the painting slide on the “Unit 16 animal artist” PDF on the screen.  In groups, ask students to look at the painting and speculate on the character of the artist.  They can use their dictionaries and should write three adjectives.

2.  Elicit some of their answers, then show the picture of Congo, the chimpanzee artist on the next page.

3.  Teach the lesson in the way you prefer.

4.  Put the “Three artists quiz” on the screen.  Read the descriptions of the three different artists.  They are:

¨     Jackson Pollack, an American artist whose paintings have sold for up to US $140,000,000.

¨     Ian Ford, an American pre-school child.

¨     Kamala, an elephant who lives in Calgary Zoo.  Kamala’s paintings have sold for up to $2000. 

5.  Tell the students that each artist created two of the paintings.  Students talk to partners* and guess who created each painting. 

6.  After the students write their guesses, show them the second slide, on the third page of the PDF, which shows the answers 

Unit-16-Animal Artist

Unit 16 Painter-Quiz