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Feedback, Please! Consider the following ideas: What would you like me to write about? What questions would like me to answer? Did you recently see something written that looked incorrect, or hear something that sounded incorrect? Tell me what you saw and/or heard, why you thought it was incorrect, and what you think it should be. Do you have any comments about the story you just listened to? *If you would like us to respond directly to you, please include your email address in your message.* Your Feedback Is Our Feed! Looking for a Grammar Book? The Grammar HELP! Student Handbook	Juan de Pareja An Audio Story Additional Activities for Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, and Vocabulary ***Listening Comprehension* Below are various true/false questions. We suggest the following procedure, but you may vary the way you do this activity according to your own needs. We suggest that you 1) listen to the story from beginning to end and 2) then answer whatever questions you can. If you still have unanswered questions, then 3) read the questions you are being asked, and 4) listen to the story again, listening specifically to answer those questions. * * True or False? Diego Velazques lived in Spain in the 1700's. Juan de Pareja learned how to paint by going to an art studio. Velazgues broke the law by teaching de Pareja how to paint. This is the only portait that Velazques painted of Juan. In the painting, Juan's collar is made of lace. Juan's right hand was painted quickly. The writer of the story thinks that Juan is looking at her, and studying her. The writer is not sure whether or not this painting is a masterpiece. *Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary*** You can do the following activity to work on reading comprehension and vocabulary. You may look at the painting for guidance. You can also do the following activity for practice with listening comprehension, by clicking on the "Listen" button below. Write your answers on a piece of paper. Place the following adjectives, each of which will be used only once, in the proper place in the paragraph: LISTEN black, brown, concerned, curios, curly, dark, intelligent, kind, noble, proud, piercing, plump, round, tall I especially like the way the artist painted Juan's face: the skin is ________, the lips are ________, the hair is ________ and ________, the forehead is ________, and the face is ________. Juan has ________, ________eyes with a ________ look. He seems ________, ________, ________, and ________. In addition, Juan has a ________look. It seems like he is studying and measuring the viewer's personal qualities. Answers to True/False: 1. False 2. False 3. True 4. False 5. True 6. True 7. True 8. False Photo image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, All rights reserved.	Visit Our Library In our library you'll find: MP3 Audio Stories Communication Lessons How To's Grammar Lessons Listening Comprehension Grammar Lessons Essays Please donate to help keep more great ESL grammar and communication lessons. coming your way. We appreciate every donation. Subscribe to Our Feed Today's Date Looking for Grammar Software? www.softwareforstudents.com
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