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Fill in the blanks with the words below: ( Use as palavras abaixo, na ordem correta que completa o texto em sua resposta ). Brighten up — Belongs to — Whitewashed — Northerly — Ferociously — Dazzingly -Stretching — Prevented — Settled — 1 Realise — Hardly — Figure — Unaware — A series of — Brothels — Whose — Whom Sometimes a work of art is so 1._____________ famous that it can blind people to its original context and meaning. That surely is the case with Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers. Take the version in London’s National Gallery that the Dutch artist painted in Arles in the South of France in August 1888. The picture gives a dynamic, 2.________________ colourful** twist to the long tradition of Dutch flower painting 3. __________________ back to the 17th Century. Since it entered the National Gallery’s collection in 1924, it has also proved phenomenally popular. In 2013, more postcards of this painting were sold in the gallery’s shop – the exact 4. _____________ was 26,110 – than of any other picture in the entire collection.But many of the more than 5 million people who visit the National Gallery every year will be 5. _____________that the painting 6. ______________ a series of four extraordinary sunflower paintings that Van Gogh created in less than a week during the summer of 1888, when a 7.______________ cold 8. ________________ him from working outdoors.A bouquet of art“The public is 9. ____________ aware that Van Gogh created 10. _____________ paintings of sunflowers,” says Leo Jansen, a curator at the Van Gogh Museum and editor of the artist’s letters. “For nine out of 10 people I tell, it’s news.” “A lot of people know one of the Sunflowers, and don’t even 11. _____________ there was a series,” agrees Martin Bailey, 12. _____________ book The Sunflowers Are Mine: The Story of Van Gogh’s Masterpiece was published in 2013.Van Gogh painted sunflowers for the first time in the summer of 1886. Two years later, his interest re-emerged after he 13. ______________ at Arles, just north of Marseille in Provence. Having invited the Post-Impressionist French artist Paul Gauguin, 14. __________ he admired, to join his Studio of the South, he began painting sunflowers 15. ______________ the 16. ________________ interiors of the yellow house he was renting at 2 Place Lamartine, not far from the town’s railway station and 17. _________________.Se você não conhecer algumas das palavras deste texto, consulte The Free Dicionary. Uma ótima oportunidade de estudo é a pesquisa em dicionários. *

Answer 1

1-dazzlingly; 2-ferociously; 3-stretching; 4-figure;5-unaware; 6-belongs; 7-northerly; 8-prevented; 9-hardly; 10-a series of; 11-realise; 12-whose; 13-settled; 14-whom; 15-brighten; 16-whitewashed; 17-brothels.

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Answer 2

Yesterday, I went to the National Gallery in London with my family. I’ve been learning about Van Gogh at school and we went there to see his paintings called the Sunflowers, the Chair and also Cezanne’s The Bathers. I almost fainted when I saw actual real life Van Gogh paintings! They were way bigger than I expected and I could see Van Gogh’s oil paints stand out from the canvas because it was so thick. I couldn’t pick a favourite painting because I liked the whole gallery actually! In the gift shop I bought some postcards and a “mini masterpiece” kit so that I could do my own masterpiece at home. So today I did the mini masterpiece. I decided to paint some fruits and a painting for my mum. The fruit was called a “still life” and Van Gogh and Cezanne both liked doing them so I told mum I was being “a bit like Cezanne”!