Real or Fake? + Duane Hanson's works of art

Hi guys,

today was not a studious as it should have been... but what the heck, you did work and speak a little. I forgot to give you the reward stickers I had promised you. Please remind me next time I see you but DO NOT whine for them.

Here is what we did today as a warm up: 

It’s unbelievable!

        incredible!

        impossible!

Oh my God! ...Gosh! ...Goodness!

Jesus Christ! Geez! Gee!

What the Hell!

                  heck!

NB: Don't forget to learn new ways of expressing surprise and disbelief thanks to the worksheet I gave you.

Then we continued with recording the voicemail message from Mattel / MacDonald's. I'll be correcting for next Monday.

Finally, we began a new sequence with the description and brief analysis of this picture:

Here is what we said about it:

The tourists: a work of art by Duane Hanson

The 2 people look hyper realistic. They look like real tourists.

A couple is clad in summer clothes and the perfect tourist’s accessories (a cap, a head band, a shirt with flowers, vivid flashy colors, cameras, sandals, ...)

They look like... : - they are waiting for their plane at the airport

                                             ... looking at the horizon by the beach

                                             ... looking at a monument

                                - someone is taking a picture and they are striking the pose.

They correspond to the stereotype of tourists / the idea everyone has of a tourist. They are clichés.

You also had to identify 4 photographs of Duane Hanson's statues and tell me what their names were and what comments were made about them in the following audio document:

HW: faire des recherches sur "le mouvement hyper réaliste" et sur l'artiste "Duane Hanson". Vous devrez être capables de présenter l'un comme l'autre. Vous pourrez vous servir de supports visuels pour illustrer votre exposé si besoin.

- Tâche finale: Vous devrez enregistrer le commentaire-audioguide d'un musée présentant une exposition de Duane Hanson et centrer plus particulièrement votre commentaire sur une oeuvre de l'artiste. Ce commentaire devra bien sûr être fait en anglais pour des touristes anglophones.