LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERSDA VINCI
LinguaHouse.com
August 30, 2021
Level: Pre-Intermediate (A2-B1)
Type of English: General English
Tags: Celebrities And Historical Figures; Historical Events; People And Places; Art; Vocabulary And Grammar
Publication date: August 30, 2021
In this audio-based lesson, students will learn about the life and many achievements of Leonardo da Vinci. The lesson focuses on vocabulary, listening comprehension, word families and speaking. There is also an optional extension activity which focuses on art equipment and materials (by Stephanie Hirschman).
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- CLICK HERE to download the audio in American English.
- CLICK HERE to download the audio in British English.
AUDIO TRANSCRIPT
Leonardo da Vinci was born in Tuscany, Italy, in 1452. He received a basic education and, because he was talented, went to train with the artist Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence.
Around 1483, da Vinci went to work for the Duke of Milan. He stayed with him for almost twenty years. During this time, he created his famous painting, The Last Supper. Da Vinci believed that the most important thing an artist needed to know was how to see.
He developed this skill throughout his life, in both religious pictures and in portraits of real people like the Mona Lisa. His style combined accurate observation and sensitive imagination. Today, there are only around fifteen paintings that we know da Vinci painted.
During his life, da Vinci worked in Florence, Milan, and Rome. He was always drawing and produced thousands of pages of sketches of people, animals, birds, and nature. Da Vinci was left-handed, and he often used mirror writing to explain what he drew. In addition to sketches of everyday objects, he also sketched many new inventions.
These included machines resembling tanks, airplanes, and helicopters. Da Vinci’s designs were good, but at that time, there were no engines to make them move. The world had to wait another 500 years to see inventions like these really working.
Da Vinci was also an architect and engineer. He designed palaces and villas and worked with leaders on projects like canals and city defenses. In 1517, the French king invited da Vinci to move to France to plan a new capital city. He spent the last two years of his life working there before he died in 1519.
He also finished the Mona Lisa. Da Vinci’s curiosity about how things worked, artistic talent, and hard work made him the perfect Renaissance man.
Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/general-english/da-vinci. Accessed on September 16, 2021. LinguaHouse.com © 2008 - 2021
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