Cover of the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7B - A masterpiece? for the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden, Jerry Lambert and Kate Chomacki from Oxford University Press

Question

  1. Look at three works of public art. What might they have in common?
  2. Listen to the first part of a documentary and check your answer to a. Answer the questions with a partner.
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  4. Listen again and answer the questions about each work of art.

Answer

a)

They have all been shown on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.

b)

  1. It was originally intended to have a statue of King William IV on a horse.
  2. The fourth plinth was empty for over 150 years because people couldn't agree what to put on it.
  3. People discussed having permanent statues, e.g. Nelson Mandela or Margaret Thatcher.
  4. Some people say this was rejected in order to eventually have a statue of Elizabeth Il there.

d)

1

  1. Nelson's ship HMS Victory
  2. The relationship between the birth of the British Empire and today's multicultural Britain
  3. It was bought from the artist and is on permanent display in the National Maritime Museum.

2

  1. A rocking horse
  2. Victory in war
  3. Future generations, and a time when there are fewer war monuments

3

  1. To re-create over 7,000 objects of Iraqi art which had been destroyed in the war
  2. A winged god, which originally stood at the entrance to Nineveh
  3. Date syrup cans, to symbolize that not only was art destroyed in the war, but also the date industry was decimated.