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UNIT 6 Lesson 5: A Young Artist

1. Look at the pictures. What can you see?

A B C D

2. Read the texts. Match the headings with the texts.

➤ Something Amani did.
➤ Amani as a child.
➤ Amani now.
A Amani Zain Elabden is a young painter from Sudan. She started drawing when she was

very young using crayons. She was good at drawing trees and flowers. She enjoyed art
classes at school and studied painting at university.

B Amani now draws cartoons for children. Her drawings and paintings are in many
newspapers and books for schools. She loves working with children.

C Amani travelled from Khartoum to El Damazin and spent two weeks there. She enjoyed
showing her paintings to people and teaching the El Damazin school children to paint.

3. Read the texts again. Are the sentences true or false?

A Amani started drawing using crayons. B She liked drawing pictures of animals.
C She didn’t like art at school. D Now she draws children’s cartoons.
E You can see her drawings and paintings F She went to El Damazin to write

in school books. a book.
G She taught some children there.

4. Ask and answer questions about drawing and painting.

Do you enjoy
painting?

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