I distinctly remember my art lessons at school They were not very exciting. Mostly, we would try to remember pictures and artists and every 2 weeks, we would go outside and draw trees! You can only guess how enthusiastic I was about art! I say “was” because last week we went to Language Lab’s art gallery in Second Life… We began the lesson by taking a quick tour of all the exhibits. They were mostly three dimensional art like sculptures but they were incredibly detailed and very imaginative! We used camera controls to look around and inside the objects. We could even click on some objects to see inside or to give us more information. After the tour, we decided on a favorite piece of art and then we began to look at how to make a presentation.
We had to describe the object and then try to describe how we feel about the art and what it means to us. We also had to use language to try to get people involved in the presentation (“can you see..? If you click here, you will see.., can you guess what..?”) The presentations were brilliant and everybody had a great time. The expression “to get into something, usually means to begin to like something. Only this time, we really got into things! Art appreciation and learning vocabulary in 3D Thanks to all the advanced English students for making this lesson memorable and for helping me to ‘get into’ art again. |
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