Gateway B1+ Unit 8 WB Reading

Slinkachu puts his tiny figures in cities ...

• a) and makes sure that everyone sees them.

• b) and allows people to notice them if they want to.

• c) and hopes that people do not see them.

The artist generally creates scenes where ...

• the characters are doing something surprising.

• they are doing something ordinary.

• they are not doing anything.

His street scenes are in danger because ...

• pedestrians can walk on them by accident.

• some people might deliberately destroy them.

• they might be stolen.

The scenes can take a long time to make because ...

• he needs to first make the figures himself.

• he likes to add scarves to all his mini-models.

• he has to get the characters and the place right.

As a boy, he used to like ...

• playing with trains.

• taking photographs.

• playing with little models from train sets.

He thinks people like his work because they ...

• like small things.

• think it is funny.

• like to use their imagination.

Critical Thinking: Is art which most people do not even notice, art?

• Yes, it is still art.

• No, it is not art.

• It depends on the context.

• Only if it is recognized by experts.

Match the underlined words in the article with the definitions.

• blob

• smaller than things of the same kind

• miniature

• imagined an emotion that you think someone else is feeling

• empathise

• a small amount of a thick liquid

• projected

• making you feel emotional or sympathetic, for example by being sad

• touching

• to understand how someone feels because you can imagine what it is like to be them

a small pool of water left on the road after rain

a piece of art that consists of different objects arranged together