Looking back Lesson 2 3 Reading and speaking a What do you know about Mustafa Senbal? Check (✔) the sentences T (true) or F (false).
1 He is from Iraq.
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2 Senbel was a city planner for Riyadh.
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3 Senbel made over 25 sculptures for Jeddah.
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4 One of the biggest sculptures he made was called The Vulture. T
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5 “The Seagull” is one of the world’s tallest sculptures
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6 Jeddah has hundreds of sculptures.
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b Work in pairs. Student A, read the first paragraph of the text below and check answers 1–3; Student B, read the second and third paragraphs and check answers 4–6.
Mustafa Senbal M
ustafa Senbel is Egyptian and went to Alexandria University. He worked as a city planner for Jeddah in the late 1970s and 25 early 1980s for ten years, where he created
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sculptures for Jeddah. 2
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called One of the biggest sculptures he made was At bird. “The Seagull” and showed one wing of the t over 55 meters tall, it is one of the world’s talles s verse are wing the on n abstract sculptures. Writte . poets us famo from four of Saudi Arabia’s most the Jeddah is the largest open air art museum in world by tures sculp world and has hundreds of coast, renowned artists dotted along the roads and for all to enjoy.
c Now ask your partner about the facts you didn’t check. Use yes/no questions. Did Mustafa Senbal go to university?
4 Writing and speaking a Think of a famous artist or other famous person you know. Write down some information about him or her. b Now guess your partner’s famous person.
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