Task 1
- Have you ever been to an art gallery? Why?
- If you have been, which one?
- Do you have a favourite one? Why?
- Or do you find them boring? Why?
Task 2
What is a part of speech?
This activity will focus on four parts of speech known as open classes.
Verb (v) Noun (n) Adjective (adj) and Adverb (adv)
Find the information here.
Complete The Tate Gallery Experience 1A and 1B.
(Download and fill in the PDF or split the exercise between two groups or pairs. Alternatively open the document as a shared Google Doc and turn this exercise into an interactive BYOD task.)
Task 4
How can an art gallery inspire you to tell stories?
Ideas?
This activity will focus on four parts of speech known as open classes.
Verb (v) Noun (n) Adjective (adj) and Adverb (adv)
Find the information here.
- Nouns make up the largest proportion of lexemes in English, and are used to refer to humans (for example, child), animals (for example, kangaroo), objects (for example, computer), and abstract concepts (for example, happiness). Pronouns (for example, you) and proper nouns (for example, Victor) are included in the category of nouns.
Read more about nouns... - Verbs refer to a situation or activity which is described in the sentence or clause. These can be a state (for example, I know my times tables), an action (for example, The police chased the arsonist), an event (for example, Milly's sandcastle collapsed) or a sense (for example, Hugh heard the lunch bell).
Read more about verbs... - Adjectives are used as modifiers to describe a property of a noun (for example, young, tall, happy, beautiful).
Read more about adjectives... - Adverbs can modify a verb (for example, ran quickly), an adjective (for example, very beautiful), another adverb (for example, quite quickly), or a clause (for example, Unfortunately we can't come today).
Read more about adverbs...
Complete The Tate Gallery Experience 1A and 1B.
(Download and fill in the PDF or split the exercise between two groups or pairs. Alternatively open the document as a shared Google Doc and turn this exercise into an interactive BYOD task.)
Task 4
How can an art gallery inspire you to tell stories?
Ideas?
Task 5
Complete the task below.
Task 6
Watch Jaqueline Wilson's Magical Tour of Tate Britain.
Task 7
Discussion
Do you share Jaqueline Wilson's enthusiasm for art galleries? Why?
Task 8
Read the full transcript of Jaqueline Wilson's video.
Sometimes people think that art galleries just have a load of old boring paintings. But when you actually go and have a look you can find all sorts of things. And you see that there's a whole rich new world that you have never even though about. It sets your imagination on fire. I'm Jaqueline Wilson. I love looking at paintings. They give me all sorts of inspiration for my stories. I think they'll give you a lot of good ideas too. You don't just have to write a poem, a story or a play, you can actually tell a story. You can paint your own pictures. You don't have to find out all about the actual people or the artist. But they spark things off. I always loved, when I looked at this painting, making my own ideas about the sisters. What are these people like? Do they live in a great big palace? This painting it is so big. It is almost as if you were climbing into that world. How exciting it is? It gives you an idea of making up your own world. Push your imagination to think of different ideas for a kind of fairyland that isn't all tinsel and pretty little fairies, but something magical and strange. Art galleries are very good places if you like animals. This horse, you can see from the expression on his face and the way his mane is blowing all over the place. You can see that the horse is actually frightened and if you look carefully in the darkness here, there is a lion. It looks as if it is lurking and ready to get the horse. It makes you think, 'Well what is going to happen?' He might grow wings out of his back, great big powerful wings and then he could fly away. And then you can pretend. You can get ideas from people, scary things, beautiful things, puzzling things. It's over to you. You can start creating. You can write about anything you want. It's your world.
Complete The Tate Gallery Experience 2A and 2B.
(Download and fill in the PDF or split the exercise between two groups or pairs. Alternatively open the document as a shared Google Doc and turn this exercise into an interactive BYOD task.)
Task 10
Find a work of art of your choice and try to make up a story from any Virtual Walk Through picture in the way that Jaqueline Wilson does.
Compare your story to the expert rendering of the story by selecting the picture.
If you are looking for more inspiration you can go to Tate Audio Walk.
Task 11
Present the picture and your story to the class together with a summary of the expertrendering.
Follow up.
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