Students names:

Written and oral expressions Urban art

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I.

Read the text Interview: Inti Castros graffiti legacy in Chiles port city from page 35.

II.

Write 8 new words you found in the text. Give the definition in English for each one of them and
also the meaning in Spanish.
Word

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Definition

Spanish

Complete the word map with related vocabulary. Look for related words, synonyms and
antonyms in your dictionary.

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Summarize the information from the text, writing a brief text.

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Introduction (general idea and background)
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Main body (ideas and arguments)
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V.

Read the following news article.

Chilean artist work HAS Andean influences and exhibits Mexican skulls .
The Festival of Urban Intervention Homemade held various artists coloring the city, which included
huge inflatable figures graffiti, painted sidewalks, among many others.
This valuable initiative of the Municipality of Santiago had a spectacular end with the opening of Inti
Castro`s mural. After a week of work, the port graffiti artist, who lives in France, finished his mural , replacing
the previous one: a design of Spanish fashion designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada outlet that ornamented the
Bellas Artes subway station since 2009.
The new painting has clear Andean influences and features items like skulls and Mexican burlap.

VI.

Give your opinion about Castros work. Structure your paragraph into three parts: introduction,
main body and conclusion. Remember you are giving an opinion; therefore, use as many
adjectives you can. Adjectives can be simple (small, red, dirty, sweet ) or compound ( well-known,
man-made, bad-tempered)

Compound adjectives
A compound adjective is an adjective that contains two or more words. In general we put a hyphen between two or more
words (before a noun) when we want them to act as a single idea (adjective) that describes something.
I live in an English-speaking country.
Some more examples of compound adjectives are:
Our office is in a twenty-storey building.

He is a well-known writer.

We think that
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