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38 New Horizons • Resource material

1 Read the newspaper article quickly and find the names of eight graffiti artists.

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2 Match the words to the Italian translations.

1 auction a da collezionare

2 leading b vagoni della metropolitana

3 collectable c attuale

4 subway cars d aumentati

5 current e molto importanti

6 risen f asta

3 Read the article again and decide if the sentences below are correct or incorrect. Tick 4 YES (Correct) or NO (Incorrect).

YES NO Correct Incorrect

1 A painting by a graffiti artist was sold last week for £15,000. 2 Exactly 400 works were included in the auction. 3 Rubens and Rembrandt were graffiti artists. 4 A lot of modern graffiti art isn’t illegal. 5 The door was the entrance to a gallery. 6 All the works in the auction were done between 1979 and 1983. 7 Wane is British. 8 Graffiti art costs more now than before the auction.

The first ever graffiti auction was held in New York last week

Yes, it’s a door – but it was sold for an incredible £15,000 at the world’s first ever graffiti auction in New York last week. The door – one of over 400 pieces on sale – included work by the legendary Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Futura, Fab Five Freddie and other leading graffiti artists. The fact that it sold at such a high price confirms that urban street art is now just as valid and collectable as the work of famous traditional artists like Rubens and Rembrandt. When the graffiti scene emerged in the late Sixties in New York, street signs, walls and subway cars were ‘tagged’ (writing your street name) and turned into pictures – a controversial and illegal practice. But today artists are producing legal and collectable paintings, and have their works in the world’s top galleries.

The wooden door was the entrance to the apartment above 51X, a gallery in New York which was famous for displaying many graffiti works. Artists used the apartment to relax in when they were visiting the gallery, and between 1979 and 1983 it was traditional to tag the door. The auction traced the 30-year history of the art form: from rare works by graffiti pioneer Taki 183, through Seventies aerosol paintings by Stak and Tracy 168, to the current leaders of the global hip-hop generation like London-born Wane, who creates works on his computer. And thanks to its success, prices for graffiti art have risen dramatically – from £120 for a relatively new work to £20,000 for a Basquiat original.

Graffiti door sold for £15,000

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Extension • Units 13–16 MODULE 4

New Horizons • Resource material 39

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1 Read the magazine article and answer the questions.

1 Where does the boy live? 2 Why is he angry? 3 What action has he taken about the situation?

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2 Read the text again. Choose the correct answer: a, b, c or d.

1 What is the writer’s main purpose in writing the text?

a to talk about a public meeting

b to discuss the problem of teenage crime

c to promote a new shopping centre

d to talk about a teenager who is prepared to take action for his rights

2 Who is not allowed to go into the shopping centre?

a only William Powell

b only William and his friends

c all kids under 18 who are not with an adult

d any shoplifters

3 Who makes the decision about who is allowed in the shopping centre?

a local residents c the local council

b the managers d the security guards

4 What would a reader learn about William from the text?

a He’s a thief.

b He’s studying to be a human rights lawyer.

c He has succeeded in getting the ban lifted.

d He isn’t going to accept the ban.

5 Which of the following is the best description of William’s motives?

a He’s doing this campaign because he needs to buy things at the shopping centre.

b He’s doing this campaign because he wants to be on the TV news.

c He’s doing this campaign because he doesn’t agree that teenagers steal.

d He’s doing this campaign because he doesn’t think it’s right to discriminate against teenagers.

They should target the real offenders, not everyone,’ complains William. As well as complaining to the managers of the shops, William has organised a variety of other protests: letters to newspapers, an interview on the local TV news, and a petition, which hundreds of local residents have already signed. Last week he also attended a public meeting at the local council and spoke to an audience of about a hundred adults. But so far the managers haven’t changed their minds. ‘It’s awful!’ says William. ‘We can’t buy things we need just because we’re young. But the worst thing is that we used to meet our friends there and now we have nowhere to go – it’s the only place here where you can be inside in the winter. The security guards are so rude, and just tell us to get out.’ William is now discussing the matter with Raquel Walters, a human rights lawyer who says that they may be able to contest the ban under the European Convention on Human Rights.

Banned!

William Powell and his friends are angry, really angry. They have been banned from their local shopping centre in Allford. Apparently the ban is a reaction from the centre’s shopkeepers to an epidemic of teenage shoplifting over the last six months. William is angry because he believes that he is being labelled as a thief when he has never been in trouble in his life. ‘I can understand that shopkeepers are fed up with people stealing from their shops, but I think it’s incredibly unfair to stop everyone under 18 going in there unless they’ve got an adult with them.

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1 Read the letter to TeenAge from Joe Fielding, an 18-year-old student from Newcastle. What’s his opinion about graffiti?

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2 Now write a letter expressing the opposite point of view. You should:

• complainaboutgraffitibecauseyouthinkit’sugly • giveexamplesofbadgraffitiinyourarea,whereyousawitandwhatitwaslike • saywhatyouthinkweshoulddoaboutgraffiti • sayhowyouthinkthepeoplewhodoitshouldbepunished

TeenAge Letters

231 Topping Towers Newcastle

NE7 9BLDear TeenAge,

My name’s Joe Fielding. I’m 18 years old and I live in Newcastle. I’m a student at the local art college and I’m a graffiti artist. As part of my college course, I’m doing an exhibition on the UK graffiti scene. It looks at the history of graffiti in the UK, from ‘bombers’, who just want to write their name in as many places as possible, to ‘piecers’, who use legal local council sites to paint in.

I chose this subject because I believe that good graffiti is art, just like the kind of paintings you see in traditional galleries. I hope that my exhibition will help people to see it not as vandalism, but as something creative, beautiful and full of new ideas.

Write and tell me what you think about graffiti, and what the graffiti scene is like in your country.

Best wishes,

Joe

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1 These three photos were used in advertisements. Match the slogans to the advertisements.

A Make every journey an adventure. Ride a Yahosuzi.

B Please don’t look away. You’re my only hope.

C Go on! You deserve it! Have a Horizons Holiday.

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2 Answer the questions.

1 Where do you think each of the ads above appeared?

•onTV•bythesideoftheroad•inamagazine

2 Which ads are selling something and which one is drawing attention to a social problem?

3 Which of these techniques does each ad use to get your attention?

an attractive image a personal message a disturbing image the idea of freedom

emotive language and excitement

3 In pairs. Now prepare an advertisement for one of these things:

• anewcarormotorbike •acharitycampaigninaidofrefugees • anewperfumeoraftershave •askiingholiday

Think about: • thepurposeofyourad • anoriginalmessage,whichwillmakepeoplewanttolookatthead • whereitwillbeshown • thesortofimageyouwouldlikeinthead

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1 In pairs. Student A: describe your photo to Student B. Student B: describe your photo to Student A.

2 In pairs. Discuss which advertisement, in your opinion, is more effective. What’s the best ad you’ve seen recently? Describe it and say why you like it.

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Photo A

Photo B

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1 Read the newspaper articles and match them to the names of the crimes.

a vandalism c stealing

b joyriding d mugging

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2 In pairs. Which of the following punishments do you think each of the crimes should get? Why?

•sixmonthsworkingforthecommunity •amonthinayoungoffenders’prison •afineof£300andawarning •aone-monthprisonsentence

TEENAGERS IN CHASEA teenage boy and girl were arrested late last

night when police stopped them while they

were driving at 90 miles an hour around Milton

Keynes. The couple had stolen the car, a Toyota

Celica, from a restaurant car park in Abingdon

Road a few hours earlier. The girl, who was

driving, claims that her brother taught her to

drive when she was twelve. The boy and girl will

appear at Milton Keynes Magistrates Court

next Tuesday.

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Residents’ action groupFor the last four years, residents of Colchester have been the target of local youths who have repeatedly sprayed the walls of their houses and garages with graffiti. But now they have had enough, and have organised their own surveillance operation using home video cameras to film the youths, who have been damaging their property every night. They have handed the films to the police and several boys have already been arrested.

Police catch gangEight youths who had spent three days shoplifting in the centre of Canterbury last week were caught by store detectives in Delroy’s Department Store on Saturday afternoon. The gang had stolen CDs and DVDs, using an electronic gadget to neutralise the anti-theft tags.

‘Many of the boys came from wealthy local families,’ said a police press officer yesterday evening. ‘It seems that the main reason that they were stealing was that they found it exciting.’

3 MAN ARRESTED

After a number of attacks on

young people in the Southampton

area, a man was arrested in the

city centre yesterday. The man

chose teenagers because most

of them had expensive new mobile

phones, which he later sold by

placing ads on free Internet sites.

The man earned enough to live

very well. Police have discovered

that he owned two cars and

rented a luxury flat in a fashionable

district of Southampton.

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