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Reading 5 When he came out he started to produce pictures

7 f6$@F[!fmfmr Complete the sentenceswith the in the style of famous artists again. But he put his name on
words below the back, as he'd done before he met Drewe. Myatt is now
famous and instead of charging f 150 for a painting, he can
art collector forgery originat painting style
charge f40-50,000. "
1 l've got a poster of Van Gogh's Sunflowers in my room,
The painting is in a museum in Amsterdam. That's more than Drewe gave him for his 'genuine'
pai nti ngs!
2 This isn't a genuine Picasso. lt's a .
3 My uncle is an . He's got about 100 paintings. B It wasn't ittegal.
- c Then he decided to stop copying famous paintings.
4 ln our art [esson we tried to paint in the of Monet.
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5 What a beautiful - I Who's it by? -- D Myatt only spent four months in prison for good
behaviour.
8 Oo the exam task. They are so good that experts can't tell that they are
not originals.
F It was the same paint that people use to paint houses!
G Between 1986 and L994 lhey sotd about 200 paintings
Read the text for generaI understanding, ignoring the
and made over a million pounds.
gaps. When choosing the missing sentences for the
gaps, remember that the sentences must fit the context,
make sense and be grammaticalty correct. Speaking
9 CE@mffiffi{ffiS Match thewords belowwith the
photos in the speal<ing exam tasl<. Which other words
might you need to describe them?
Read the text. Complete each gap (f-6) with a sentence
(A-G). There is one sentence that you do not need to use. queue ctothes food free guard happy prison
Rea[ or fake? prisoner punish uniform canteen

John Myatt is an artist. He may not be the greatest artist 10 oo the exam task.
in the wortd, but he is possibly the world's greatest forger.
He is abte to paint pictures in the styte of famous artists
Iil<e Monet and Matisse.
Choose one ofthe photos and discuss these points:
1 This unusual sl<itl got Myatt into a lot of trouble . who the people are
in the 1990s. For manyyears he taught art at a secondary . where they are
schoo[, but then he got divorced and he gave up his job to . what is happening in the photo
spend more time with his chitdren. ln order to make some
money he started painting pictures in the styte of famous Compare and contrast
2 the photos. Answer the
artists and setting them. He was honest about his
worl<- he wrote his name on the bacl<, and he sold them q uestions.
for f150 each. 1 How are life in prison
and normal life different?
However, one of his customers, .John Drewe, started
2 How are the people in
to resell Myatt's paintings as genuine, originaI works.
the photos feeling?
Drewe had sold one of Myatt's paintings for f 25,000. He
contacted Myatt and suggested that they go into business
together. Myatt agreed. He continued to paint and Drewe
sotd his paintings to art collectors around the wortd.

The amazing thing is that Myatt painted his pictures with
decorator's paint. a But it soon came to an end.
Drewe was divorced too, and his ex-wife found out about
the forgeries. She went to the police and they arrested
Drewe and Myatt. At their trial Drewe was sent to prison
for six years and Myatt for [ess than one year.

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