Essential English Words 1 Unit 12

Essential English Words 1 Unit 12

by Waine Evans

Multiple Choice

Choose the right word for the given definition.

a person who paints, draws, or sculpts

• magazine

• article

• artist

• alone

Multiple Choice

to decide that something is good or bad

• neighbour

• judge

• meal

• compare

Multiple Choice

a way of doing something

• method

• profit

• professional

• attitude

Multiple Choice

how good something is

• apartment

• thin

• quality

• stairs

Multiple Choice

something used to make other things

• shape

• symbol

• material

• space

Fill in the Blank

Write a word that is similar in meaning to the underlined part.

I don’t like the person who lives near me.

neigh____

Fill in the Blank

I read a regular publication about sports,

maga____

Fill in the Blank

The doctor gave his expert and qualified advice,

profe_______

Fill in the Blank

He looked at the differences between two books,

co______

Fill in the Blank

he has a good wav of thinking about things.

a_______

Multiple Choice

Select the sentence with the underlined word that makes better sense.

• When you are alone, you are with another person.

• You can read articles in a newspaper.

Multiple Choice

Select the sentence with the underlined word that makes better sense.

• If you make a profit, you have more money than you did before.

• If you have professional training, you can’t do a difficult job.

Multiple Choice

Select the sentence with the underlined word that makes better sense.

• The Earth is a very thin planet.

• If something is a symbol, it stands for something else.

Multiple Choice

Select the sentence with the underlined word that makes better sense.

• You can use stairs to go up inside a building.

• Since she is a lawyer, people call my wife an artist.

Multiple Choice

Select the sentence with the underlined word that makes better sense.

• There are many apartments in one building.

• Your attitude is the way you look.

Multiple Choice

Select the sentence with the underlined word that makes better sense.

• You cannot get information from a magazine.

• If you compare two things, you say how they are different.

Multiple Choice

Select the sentence with the bolded word that makes better sense.

• If you judge something, you know if it is good or bad.

• Neighbours are people who live far from you.

Multiple Choice

Select the sentence with the bolded word that makes better sense.

• A meal has food and a drink

• A shape is something you cannot see.

Multiple Choice

Select the sentence with the bolded word that makes better sense.

• A symbol is a picture of two different things.

• You must have space to add more things to a room.

Multiple Choice

Select the sentence with the bolded word that makes better sense.

• If something has low quality, it is very good.

• A material is used to make something else.

​The Crazy Artist

Frenhofer was the best artist in the world. Everyone loved him. The quality of his paintings was very high. He always used the best materials. He made a big profit from his paintings. He had delicious meals with his rich neighbours. He taught art classes. Life was good. Then his attitude changed. He stopped selling paintings and teaching. He tried a new method of painting. He stayed alone in his apartment all day. He worked all day and all night, rarely eating. Soon Frenhofer became very thin. But he kept working on the same painting for many years. He worked as hard as he could. Finally, he finished the painting. He was very happy and invited other artists to see it. “I want your professional opinion,” he said. He wanted them to judge it and compare it to other paintings. Everyone was very excited as they went up the stairs to his apartment. Frenhofer was excited to show his painting, and the artists were excited to see it. “They’ll love it,” he thought. But they did not.

They were surprised by his painting. There was no white anywhere. Frenhofer filled the whole painting with lines and colours. There was no space for a normal picture. It was full of strange shapes. It looked bad to the other artists. He used symbols, and they didn’t understand them. They thought it was terrible. “Why did you paint this strange picture?” someone asked. They didn’t understand its beauty. But after some time, many people began to like his painting. People wrote articles about it in magazines. They said it was his best work. They loved his strange symbols. They loved his strange colours. Frenhofer’s painting reminded everyone that just because something was new didn’t mean that it was bad. He also helped them to realize that sometimes it takes people a little time to understand great things.

Multiple Choice

Answer the questions.

What is this story about?

• A painter whose neighbours judge his art as poor quality

• An artist who teaches art classes in his apartment

• A man who writes articles for a magazine

• A thin man who eats meals with friends

Multiple Choice

Why does Frenhofer want the artists to see his painting?

• He wants to sell it to them for a profit.

• He wants them to judge his materials.

• He wants them to give their professional opinion.

• He wants to compare his new method to theirs.

Multiple Choice

What is true of Frenhofer’s painting?

• It is made with low quality materials.

• It is full of strange colours and shapes.

• It does not have any symbols in it.

• It does not have any symbols in it.

Multiple Choice

Where do the other artists see his painting?

• It is alone in the space used for art classes

• They go to Frenhofer’s apartment.

• Frenhofer takes it to their apartment.

• It is on sale at a famous store.

Open Ended

How do the artists feel as they go up the stairs?