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1. READING AND SPEAKING
THE PAINTER AND THE WRITER
*Marena Michelle Quiroz Mendoza
*Laura Rodríguez Atuesta

2. Who are or were the most famous
painters and writers in your country?
Painters:
*Fernando Botero, Enrique Grau, Francisco Cano, David
Manzur.
Writers:
*Gabriel García Márquez, Candelario Obeso, Rafael
Pombo, José Eustasio Rivera, Jorge Isaac.

3. You are going to read about the lives of Pablo Picasso and
Ernest Hemingway. Discuss these questions.
Why are they famous?
*pablo Picasso: its strange and powerful paintings.
*Ernest Hemingway: Hemingway's success in
writing was not mirrored by similar success in his
personal life.

4. What nationality were they?
*Pablo Picasso: Español.
*Ernest Hemingway: Estadounidense.
Which century were they born in?
*Pablo Picasso: century XIX
*Ernest Hemingway: century XIX

5. Do you know the names of any of their works?
*Pablo Picasso: the Guernica, one of the most outstanding
works .
*Ernest Hemingway: green hills of Africa 1935.
Do you know anything about their lives?
*Pablo Picasso: Studied at the school of fine arts of
Barcelona.
*Ernest Hemingway: was a volunteer in the first world
war as an ambulance drive until he was seriously wounded.

6. The sentences below appear in the texts. Try to guess which
sentences go with which man. Write P (picasso) or H
(hemingway).
*His first word was lápiz (spanish for pencil) and he could
draw before he could talk. P
*He had wanted to become a soldier, but could not
because he had poor eyesight. H
*his portraits of people were often made up of triangles
and squares with their features in the wrong places. P
*in the 1930s, he became a war correspondent in the
spanish civil war and world war II. H
*He was awarded the nobel prize for literature, but he was
to ill to receive it in person. H
*At the age of 90 he was honoured by an exhibition in the
louvre in paris. P

7. Answer the questions about your person.
1)Where and when was he born? When and how did he
die?
*Pablo Picasso: he was born the October 25, 1881,
Malaga Spain. Picasso died of cardiac arrest during an
attack of influenza in 1973
*ERNEST HEMINGWAY: he was born on July 21, 1899, in
Oak Park, Illinois. Sunday July 2, 1961, Hemingway
committed suicide with a shotgun.

8. 2)Did he have a happy family life?
Pablo Picasso :had a happy family life because he was an
only child and their popes had all.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: was not happy, but his family was
very strict and very religious.
3)How did his parents play a part in his career?
Pablo Picasso: thanks to his father learned to paint, his
father got a job as an art teacher, Paul went with him to
work and saw this painting.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: influenced much since his family
was very strict, and his mother was interested in teaching
music and art.

9. 4) What do you think were the most important events in
his early life?
Ernest caught his first fish at the age of three, and was
given a shotgun by his twelfth birthday.
5) When did he move to Paris? Who did he meet there?
Pablo Picasso moved to Paris in 1904.conoció the
American writer Gertrude Stein
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: After the war, he moved to Paris,
where he was encouraged in this work by the American
writer GertrudeStein

10. 6) How did war play a part in his life?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY. Many of his books were about the
war. his most successful book, for whom the bell tolls, is the
Spanish civil war. Another novel, A Farewell to Arms, is
about the futility of war
7) How many times was he married?
Pablo Picasso: Never married
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: He has been married 4 times

11. 8) Which of these dates relate to your person? What do
they refer to?
1891, 1917, 1918, 1927, 1928, 1937, 1940, 1949, 1954.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
1917 Graduated
1918 was wounded
1927 his first wife divorced him.
1928 his father committed suicide
1940 he wrote his most successful book "for whom the bell
tolls"
1954: sobrevivio 2 plane crashes

12. Pablo picasso:
1891: his father got a job as an art teacher.
1937: painted the Guernica (below).
1949: birth of her daughter dove.