¡Con brío! - PROGRAM SAMPLER

Tu mundo en vivo | ciento tres 103 BUSCO 1 COMPAÑERO/A DE APARTAMENTO You need someone to share living expenses with you. Using the format shown, write a personal ad to find a roommate. First, state the qualities you seek in the other person. Use adjectives from this or previous chapters. Then, describe yourself with the following information: • Where you are from • Profession or vocation • Friends and family • Physical characteristics, personality, age • Work/study schedule 1 I am looking for BUSCO COMPAÑERO/A DE APARTAMENTO Busco un/a compañero/a… Soy… Trabajo… Soy de… Estudio… Tengo… … Research Strategy Applying Reading Strategies to Research When you find a Spanish-language source about a topic, youmust be able to comprehend it well enough to find the information you want. You have already learned several reading strategies that will help. First, use your background knowledge. What do you already know about the topic? Second, look at the images and graphics. Do they provide clues about the content? Next, skim the headings, links and text, looking for cognates and familiar words. Finally, use the context to guess themeaning of unknownwords. These strategies will enable you to locatewhat you need. ¡A investigar! LA FAMILIA EN EL ARTE How are families portrayed in works of art created by artists from the Hispanic world? You learned about Colombian painter Fernando Botero earlier in this chapter, and you discussed his work Una familia (1989). Has Botero painted other works that represent the family? What other Hispanic artists have used the family as an artistic theme? Paso 1. Your instructor will divide the class into groups of three and assign an artist to each group. The artists may include but not be limited to the following: Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Goya, Pablo Picasso, and Fernando Botero. Working together, use the research strategies you learned in Capítulo 2 to find a Spanish-language website that presents information about your artist and images of his or her paintings. Skim the text for information about the artist and identify a painting that portrays a family. PALABRAS ÚTILES: el artista male artist ; la artista female artist ; el cuadro painting Paso 2. Collaborate to write and edit a brief description of the painting, and post it to your class online site or blog to share it with the other groups. Include: • The name of the artist ( El/La artista es… ) • Where the artist is from ( Es de… ) • The title of the painting ( El cuadro se llama… ) • The century the painting is from ( Es del siglo… ) • The relationship of the family members portrayed ( El hombre es el padre de… ) • A description of the physical characteristics of the family members and their emotional state ( La madre es… La madre está… ) • The URL of the painting’s website ( La dirección en Internet de la web del cuadro es… ) Paso 3. After each group posts its description and the class has viewed them, share whether or not you like each painting and why. In English, compare the representation of the family in older and newer works of art from the Hispanic world.