Graffiti: Art or vandalism?
Source: British Council-teaching English
Source: Let’s Step in 3ème, HATIER
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The story of Street Art
I. Match the beginnings of these sentences with the endings, then listen and check your answers!
1. Modern graffiti began
2. In New York, young people wrote their names
3. One of the first “taggers”
4. His tag was
5. He wrote his tag
6. Other teenagers saw Demetrius’s tag
7. Soon, there were tags
8. Then, some teenagers started
9. Their tags were
10. Aerosol paint graffiti
11. It appeared
12. In the 1990s and 2000s, a lot of graffiti
13. Some artists’ pictures
14. Other artists wanted to make
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A. on walls and in stations in New York.
B. became very popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
C. artists started painting pictures.
D. on walls, buses and trains all over New York.
E. in big cities in the United States in the 1970s.
F. cities beautiful and painted big, colourful
pictures on city walls.
G. bigger and more colourful.
H. or “tags” in pen on walls around the city.
I. TAKI 183.
J. writing their tags with aerosol paint.
K. was a teenager called Demetrius.
L. and started writing their tags too.
M. on trains, buses and walls around the world.
N. were about politics.
II. A Timeline. Complete this timeline with the information you gathered above.
In the
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In the ________ and
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One of the 1st
« taggers » was called
_____________ _______
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___________, he
________ his tag in pen
on walls in NYC.
became very popular. Their
tags were ________ and
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_____________. They were
painted on trains, buses
and walls around the
world.
In the ___________
and ______________
Graffiti artists started
__________ __________.
Some of them were about
___________________.
Some of them wanted to
make the cities
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__________ began.
Source: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/easy-reading/graffiti-and-street-art-level-1#sthash.8C7bLQRA.dpuf
Graffiti in galleries.
I) Match the places with the correct sentence.
London- Taiwan - Los Angeles- Sao Paulo (Brazil) - Bristol (UK) - Paris -.
1. You can paint on walls and houses, this city is often visited for its street art: _______________________.
2. There have been exhibitions of street art in galleries in ________________, _____________ and ___________.
3. There is a street art festival in August every year in ______________________________________.
4. There are “graffiti zones” where artists can paint on walls in _______________________________________.
Who are the artists?
Can you decide which paintings belongs to the same artist? We have three different artists'
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Artist A
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Artist B
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Artist C
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Artist ________
Artist _________
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IV) Writing time:
What do you think about graffiti? Is it really art?
Is there much graffiti in your town or city?
Do you think it makes your town or city look better or not?
Should the police stop graffiti artists?
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