That Sculpture Is a Masterpiece

Mona Lisa

If you listen to my voice, you will hear I have a bad cold. So, today. We need to take it easy. I don’t have a lot of energy (power).

Let’s finish art and start technology.

I will explain the new words / vocabulary on page 99 first.

Conference: big meeting

I wouldn’t miss it for the world: it is important to me

Fascinated: interested

Moved by: inspired by

Frida Kahlo: Mexican painter

Exhibition: exhibit, what you can see at a museum

Possession: what you own; it belongs to you

Cookware: pots and pans

Furniture: table, chair, desk, lamp, etc.

Traditional: from a long time ago

In the meantime: at the same time

It’s a deal: OK

Indicate: tell people, show, etc.

Increase: more

Appealing: popular; everyone likes it

Van Gogh committed suicide. He killed himself.

Frustration: problem, you don’t like it

Device: little machine

Solution: solve the problem

1.          We are starting to study technology. Let us think about famous, classic video games or computer games.

1.          Could you please repeat that?

2.          How do you spell     ?

A quarter: 1/4 or 25 cents (One quarter of 100 cents or One dollar.)

Cost

Asteroids

Doug

College

Dorm: where students can live in university

Arcade

More profitable: make lots of money

I will explain some of the new words quickly.

Roles: reasons

Article: story in a newspaper or magazine

Moved: inspire, make someone think or have a feeling

Educate: teach or learn

I am hopefully educating you.

You are hopefully being educated.

Enormous: very big, huge, gigantic, massive

Sculpture: 3D art

Masterpiece: great or famous art

Ordinary: normal, not special

Emperor: King

Glimpse: look fast or quickly, look only for a short time

Portrait: picture of a face or head; of a person

Perhaps: maybe

Approximately: about, not exactly, guessing

Designed: made

Jewelry: necklace, bracelet, ring, etc.

Located: where it is; address

This class is located in room 205.

Display: show

Unusual: strange; not normal; weird

Ignored: do not pay attention to

Art critic: person who writes about art

Recommend: suggest

Treasure: something that is expensive, nice or special

Chimei Museum

Worth going there: good to go there

National Palace Museum

Appealing: popular; everybody likes him/her

 

It’s eleven (o’clock) sharp.

Fascinated by: interested in

I have GEPT scores. The score is 10% of your final grade.

Listening Practice.

Could you please repeat that

Jewelry: necklace, bracelet, earring.

Do you think gold jewelry is tacky?

He visits a museum once a year.

 

Inspires.