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The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 12.1 - Artistic ability for the textbook Navigate Elementary A2 - Coursebook with authors Jake Hughes and Katie Wood from Oxford University Press

Question

  1. Look at the photos? What kinds of artist are they?
  2. Read the articles about two artists, Stephen Wiltshire and Tai Lihua. Answer questions 1-5 for each artist.
  3. Compare your answers with a partner.

Answer

a) Stephen Wiltshire draws detailed pictures of cities. Tai Lihua is a dancer.

b)

  1. Stephen couldn’t speak until he was five. Tai couldn’t hear from the age of two after an illness.
  2. Stephen draws pictures of cities. Tai dances – she is one of the most famous dancers in China.
  3. He started drawing pictures of London when he was at school. She joined a dance company when she was fifteen.
  4. His teachers called him ‘the human camera’. Her teacher asked the class of deaf children to feel the sound of a drum through their feet.
  5. Stephen has his own art gallery in London, wants to open another in New York, and has sold his pictures all over the world. Tai has danced in more than seventy-five countries and danced at the Beijing Paralympics.

c) -