Task 21. Read the text and speak about your own reasons to visit museums and exhibitions

Task 20. Vocabulary Revision. Fill in the table with the italicized words.

MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS

Task 19. Choose and review the film using the tables.

Genre	This film is…
Short Description	It is about … who…
Cast	The actors starring in the film are… The supporting roles are played by… There is a/no cameo appearance of…
Setting (Time/Place)	The film is set in… It takes place in…
Plot	The opening scene of the film shows… At the beginning … but then/later… …meanwhile… Eventually… In the closing scene we can see…
Special Details	What strikes me about the first picture is the fact that… The film reminds me of…

Battle painting, one-man exhibition, painter of landscapes, painter of portraits, genre painting, restorer, historical painting, varnishing day, landscape painting, monumental painting, mural painting, portrait, icon-painter, engraver, caricature, exhibition halls, colourist, galley, collection, model/sitter, city-scape (town-scape), sea-scape (water-piece, marine), painter of seascapes, graphic art (black-and-white art), still life, icon, print, fresco, engraving, woodcut, reproduction, self-portrait, a half-length portrait, a full-length portrait, draftsman, international exhibition, miniature, on display, abstract art, museum of applied art, folk art, oriental art, fine arts, contemporary (modern) art, ancient art.

Art Exhibitions and Museums	Kinds of Paintings	Painters and Models

Museums are presenting the whole world left to us, with which we can learn lots of things we did not previously know, be aware of what has happened in the past as well as what is going to happen in the future, or gain self-understanding. Personally, among countless factors which influence the reason for visiting museums, there are three conspicuous aspects as follows.

The main reason for my propensity for visiting museums is that more about local histories can be known in this way. Nowadays, many museums are mainly operating for responsibilities to collect, preserve historic treasures and exhibit fine art and antiquities. For instance, the National Museum of Chinese History, the first of these kinds to be established in China has over 300,000 items, including more than 2,000 first-grade pieces items, 100,000 photographs of cultural relics and over 200,000 professional books. As you walk around the General Chinese History exhibition rooms, looking at the cultural relics and imagining the past, you may feel that you are traveling along a path spanning the course of Chinese history.

Another reason can be seen by every person is that you can see something rare so much as unique in museums. For example, Emperor QinShihuang, the first emperor in Chinese history, is known as the Emperor Qin’s Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses. Today, the Emperor Qin’s Terra-cotta Museum, ‘the eighth Wonder of the world’, is not only a treasure house where the tourists can learn histories, but also a main scenic spot of China. The vivid pottery figures, colorful uniforms and various weapons, acclaimed as the peak of perfection, are unique forever.

Furthermore, visiting museums can enrich our knowledge about various sides, such as preventive measures of a disease, the reason of earthquake, the latest development of the laser and so on. The inventive genius may be inspired in someone by making exhibits, because knowledge is acquired more easily in this way than being taught in class.

Still, people might list other reasons to explain why they always visit museums while traveling to new places, but the three points I have explored in the above discussion, I believe, are most relevant to the issue under discussion.

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