Britain's most famous grafitti artist

• Engels
• Voortgezet speciaal onderwijs
• Leerroute 2
• Leerroute 1

Do you like art, and if so what kind of art do you like?

What do you think this painting represents?

1. The past
2. The present
3. The future
4. Hope

Why do you think that Banksy shredded the painting?

Can you think of a reason
why people do graffiti?

What are we doing today?

Reading a text

Exercises

Giving opinions

Culture and Literature page 26

Put your phone away, or it will be mine for the rest of the day :).

Read the text!

Who is Banksy?

Not allowed by the law.

A false name

Sent away from school

A piece of card or plastic with the shape of letters cut out of it.

Attracting your interest because of an unusual feature.

A short phrase that is easy to remember.

A graffiti artist's signature.

Against the existing order in a country.

An area surrounded by a wall or fence.

Very big

Illegal

Pseudonym

Expelled

Stencil

Striking

Tag

Anti-Establishment.

Enclosure

Huge

Slogan

What would you name this painting?

Exercise 5

• Work in pairs
• Five minutes
• Phones away :)
  

Exercise 5

1 He has to keep his identity secret because graffiti is illegal. He uses a pseudonym to identify his work but not himself.

2 He had a difficult childhood so he did graffiti to make himself feel better and to give himself a voice.

3 Because he wasn’t very good with a spray can and also because it was quicker to use a stencil.

4 Banksy.

5 That he’s anti-war.

6 The animals’.

7 He likes to use it to create his own work.

8 Yes, it’s worth a lot of money. Famous people pay a lot for it.

Do you like Banksy's work?

I do

I don't

Is graffiti art or vandalism?

Art

Vandalism

Do you think art can have a lot of impact on society, and if so how?

What did we talk
about today?