1 00:00:02,340 --> 00:00:03,870 All right, practice number four. 2 00:00:05,340 --> 00:00:10,320 And number four, we have one of the other types of multiple choice questions here. 3 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,650 We have the choices, 26 through 30. 4 00:00:14,470 --> 00:00:18,670 We have the categories or we have the categories. 5 00:00:18,670 --> 00:00:21,280 Six Sunflowers, the concert portrait. 6 00:00:21,730 --> 00:00:23,440 Remember, it goes in order. 7 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:25,930 Remember, it goes in order. 8 00:00:25,930 --> 00:00:28,690 So first, they're going to talk about the six sunflowers. 9 00:00:29,490 --> 00:00:32,850 This is where your ability to recognize paraphrasing comes in. 10 00:00:33,930 --> 00:00:38,850 After that, when they talk about the sunflowers, they're going to tell you something in relation to 11 00:00:38,850 --> 00:00:40,080 the sunflowers. 12 00:00:40,230 --> 00:00:41,580 What's your job? 13 00:00:42,270 --> 00:00:45,720 Your job is to pick the answer choice. 14 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,930 That is a paraphrase of what they said. 15 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,170 That is a paraphrase of what they said. 16 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:58,030 No. 17 00:00:58,030 --> 00:01:00,190 You cannot use a letter more than once. 18 00:01:01,090 --> 00:01:01,590 Okay. 19 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:04,740 You cannot use a letter more than once. 20 00:01:04,750 --> 00:01:06,310 Somebody just asked me that question. 21 00:01:06,790 --> 00:01:07,780 All right, so you go. 22 00:01:07,780 --> 00:01:09,850 Only you can only use a letter one time. 23 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:10,600 If you could. 24 00:01:10,750 --> 00:01:13,780 If you could use a letter more than one once. 25 00:01:15,070 --> 00:01:20,590 But if you can use the letter more than once, it would say it in the directions. 26 00:01:21,580 --> 00:01:23,020 So I would say you can. 27 00:01:26,290 --> 00:01:29,500 Well, if you're confused, your English needs to get better. 28 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:36,090 I'm sorry to be blunt, but, you know, if you improve your English, you won't be confused. 29 00:01:36,540 --> 00:01:37,260 I understand that. 30 00:01:37,270 --> 00:01:42,540 I recognize that you're confused, but the way you get better is by improving your overall English. 31 00:01:43,430 --> 00:01:45,060 Okay, I'm going to go ahead and start it. 32 00:01:45,420 --> 00:01:50,400 Remember during the time they give you try to pick out the key words. 33 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,250 As of right now, do not ask any questions. 34 00:01:53,250 --> 00:01:55,440 Please do not ask any questions. 35 00:01:55,770 --> 00:01:57,810 Starting now, no questions. 36 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:09,460 Before you hear the rest of the talk, you have some time to look at questions. 37 00:02:09,460 --> 00:02:10,960 26 to 30. 38 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,370 Now listen and answer questions. 39 00:02:43,370 --> 00:02:45,410 26 to 30. 40 00:02:48,890 --> 00:02:49,280 Okay. 41 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:55,460 So if we're talking about digital reproduction of art, we have to mention the company factum art and 42 00:02:55,460 --> 00:03:00,650 how they reproduced famous paintings that had been lost or damaged so they can go on public display. 43 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:01,730 Good idea. 44 00:03:02,420 --> 00:03:05,150 Let us know down the challenges the team faced. 45 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:08,540 What about Vincent Van Gogh's Six Sunflowers? 46 00:03:08,570 --> 00:03:10,660 The original painting was destroyed. 47 00:03:10,670 --> 00:03:13,550 The team had a photo of it, but it wasn't very clear. 48 00:03:13,550 --> 00:03:14,480 Right. 49 00:03:14,510 --> 00:03:17,990 They couldn't see how Van Gogh had used his brush. 50 00:03:18,020 --> 00:03:24,230 They knew the National Gallery had a nearly identical sunflower painting by Van Gogh, and so they had 51 00:03:24,230 --> 00:03:30,050 to ask the gallery whether the team would be allowed to study and scan it so they could reproduce the 52 00:03:30,050 --> 00:03:31,820 brushstrokes in the right way. 53 00:03:31,850 --> 00:03:33,960 They got approval in the end. 54 00:03:33,980 --> 00:03:35,910 What about the concert? 55 00:03:35,930 --> 00:03:37,970 The original was stolen, right? 56 00:03:38,150 --> 00:03:44,450 The team had a photo they could use, but the problem was it was a photo of the concert after someone 57 00:03:44,450 --> 00:03:46,520 had tried to touch it up with fresh paint. 58 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:49,560 And they'd done a terrible job, hadn't they? 59 00:03:49,580 --> 00:03:52,580 Yes, but the team were happy with the reproduction. 60 00:03:52,580 --> 00:03:56,390 In the end, we should mention the portrait of Sir Winston Churchill. 61 00:03:56,420 --> 00:04:01,490 Churchill hated that portrait, so his wife burnt it and nothing was left. 62 00:04:01,490 --> 00:04:08,810 So the factum art team had to search for the pencil sketches the artist had also made of Churchill as 63 00:04:08,810 --> 00:04:10,280 part of his preparation. 64 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:11,030 Right. 65 00:04:11,450 --> 00:04:16,490 For me, I was most interested in the Water Lilies by Claude Monet. 66 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:22,160 In that case, the painting wasn't lost, but the top layer of paint had turned completely black because 67 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:23,540 of smoke from a fire. 68 00:04:23,540 --> 00:04:27,380 The team had to work out what the colors beneath that layer had been. 69 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,850 And then there was Maroto a painting by Tamara de Lempicka. 70 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,850 No one knows for sure what happened to the original. 71 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:40,340 At least the team had a black and white photo they could work from, but they needed to know what colours 72 00:04:40,340 --> 00:04:42,020 Lempicka would have used. 73 00:04:42,020 --> 00:04:45,560 And most of her other paintings are held in private collections. 74 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,840 Because of that, they couldn't go and see them. 75 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:50,750 That's a shame, because her work would have been. 76 00:04:56,570 --> 00:04:56,880 All right. 77 00:04:56,900 --> 00:05:02,990 Number 26 is see, again, this is all about synonyms. 78 00:05:03,140 --> 00:05:05,570 It's all about paraphrasing. 79 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:07,510 26 to see. 80 00:05:08,270 --> 00:05:09,770 27 is a. 81 00:05:10,340 --> 00:05:11,870 28 is de. 82 00:05:12,700 --> 00:05:14,170 29 is be. 83 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:16,080 30 is F. 84 00:05:17,820 --> 00:05:18,330 Again. 85 00:05:18,330 --> 00:05:19,710 26 to see. 86 00:05:20,620 --> 00:05:24,220 27 is a 28 is a DD. 87 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:26,410 29 is B. 88 00:05:27,190 --> 00:05:28,590 30 is F. 89 00:05:35,030 --> 00:05:42,680 As you can see, this is a question that is from section three, because this questions 26 through 30. 90 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:50,150 You see most of these difficult you see most of these difficult multiple choice questions like this 91 00:05:50,510 --> 00:05:51,700 in section three. 92 00:05:51,710 --> 00:05:57,920 That's where you see a lot of the multiple choice questions, Section four, for the most part, not 93 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:03,260 always for the most part in section four, they give they give mainly fill the blank. 94 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:10,610 Some people actually do better with Section four than they do with Section three because people have 95 00:06:10,700 --> 00:06:15,290 or students have difficulty recognizing, paraphrasing. 96 00:06:16,430 --> 00:06:16,760 All right. 97 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,820 So I'm going to move on to the very last practice. 98 00:06:21,140 --> 00:06:23,810 And then we're going to wrap up for the day. 99 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:28,360 All right, practice number five. 100 00:06:29,850 --> 00:06:31,410 Practice number five. 101 00:06:35,470 --> 00:06:35,770 All right. 102 00:06:35,770 --> 00:06:39,760 So we have our standard questions, questions 21 through 25. 103 00:06:41,490 --> 00:06:44,190 Please listen and answer the questions. 104 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,880 Also, please don't ask any questions in the chat box right now. 105 00:06:57,170 --> 00:06:59,450 Exam Practice Test three. 106 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,160 Listening Part three. 107 00:07:02,380 --> 00:07:08,560 You will hear two art history students, Chloe and Oliver, talking about the research they have done 108 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,680 on the restoration and reproduction of old paintings. 109 00:07:12,010 --> 00:07:13,870 First, you have time to look at questions. 110 00:07:13,870 --> 00:07:15,550 21 to 25. 111 00:07:51,180 --> 00:07:53,820 Now listen carefully and answer questions. 112 00:07:53,820 --> 00:07:56,010 21 to 25. 113 00:07:59,130 --> 00:08:02,340 Okay, Chloe, let's put the presentation together. 114 00:08:02,370 --> 00:08:05,160 What do you want to include in the introduction? 115 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:11,670 Well, we're looking at the restoration of old paintings and the reproduction, so we should begin with 116 00:08:11,670 --> 00:08:15,510 a definition to show how those two things are different. 117 00:08:15,540 --> 00:08:17,220 Is that necessary? 118 00:08:17,340 --> 00:08:19,440 Let's start in a visual way. 119 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:24,780 Show some paintings that have been restored, and talk about why it was necessary. 120 00:08:24,810 --> 00:08:31,950 So, for instance, a painting that was damaged by water and another one by insects or by sunlight. 121 00:08:32,070 --> 00:08:34,020 Okay, let's go with that. 122 00:08:34,050 --> 00:08:36,090 It'll get everyone's attention. 123 00:08:36,330 --> 00:08:41,520 After the introduction, we should tell everyone about our museum visit. 124 00:08:41,550 --> 00:08:45,960 Yes, it was great to see people restoring paintings in front of us. 125 00:08:46,110 --> 00:08:50,460 Did you know that most of the restorers we met didn't have a degree in art history? 126 00:08:50,670 --> 00:08:53,530 They'd done things like chemistry and archaeology. 127 00:08:53,550 --> 00:08:55,500 I never would have imagined that. 128 00:08:55,530 --> 00:08:56,740 Me neither. 129 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:00,450 I had no idea those kind of skills would be useful. 130 00:09:00,690 --> 00:09:03,570 Apparently a painting can take a year to clean. 131 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,070 I guess it would. 132 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:11,520 And one guy I spoke to told me they're always experimenting, reading up on different ways to clean 133 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:12,490 the paintings. 134 00:09:12,510 --> 00:09:16,440 So would you be interested in a career in art restoration? 135 00:09:16,470 --> 00:09:18,880 You know, you don't actually need to be able to draw. 136 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:20,340 So it might suit you. 137 00:09:20,370 --> 00:09:21,900 Very funny. 138 00:09:22,020 --> 00:09:26,190 Look, I think it would be a great job, but I wouldn't choose to do it. 139 00:09:26,310 --> 00:09:28,540 You get to work in interesting places. 140 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:29,490 That's true. 141 00:09:29,700 --> 00:09:35,220 I mean, sometimes you'd be working in a public place, like restoring the paintings high up on a church 142 00:09:35,220 --> 00:09:37,710 ceiling with the public watching. 143 00:09:37,740 --> 00:09:39,230 I wouldn't mind that. 144 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:44,940 But the thing is, when someone owns the painting you're working on, you've got to get it right. 145 00:09:45,060 --> 00:09:47,610 What if they didn't like the colors you'd used? 146 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:49,230 Too much pressure. 147 00:09:49,350 --> 00:09:50,170 True. 148 00:09:50,190 --> 00:09:54,270 Since we visited the museum, I've been researching other restored paintings. 149 00:09:54,300 --> 00:09:56,400 One was a Dutch landscape. 150 00:09:56,430 --> 00:10:02,520 It had been hanging in a museum for over 100 years, and everyone just thought it was a nice scene of 151 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:03,820 people on the beach. 152 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:08,910 And then a restorer started cleaning it and discovered someone had painted over a whale. 153 00:10:08,940 --> 00:10:09,930 A whale? 154 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:10,500 Yes. 155 00:10:10,500 --> 00:10:13,230 The original artist had painted a whale on the beach. 156 00:10:13,230 --> 00:10:18,720 And later, I suppose the painting was bought by someone who thought the whale ruined a pretty scene 157 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,480 and they paid another artist to cover it up. 158 00:10:21,510 --> 00:10:23,040 You must be right. 159 00:10:23,070 --> 00:10:26,970 Not everyone judges a painting in the same way, obviously. 160 00:10:27,210 --> 00:10:30,690 Anyway, we'll have plenty to say about restoration. 161 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,270 What about digital reproduction? 162 00:10:33,390 --> 00:10:38,100 Yeah, digital technology is having quite an impact on the art world. 163 00:10:38,340 --> 00:10:43,920 We can now reproduce famous paintings and you can see something that looks just like the original. 164 00:10:43,950 --> 00:10:50,250 I guess the difference between a digital reproduction and a fake painting is no one's pretending it 165 00:10:50,250 --> 00:10:52,620 was painted by the original artist. 166 00:10:52,830 --> 00:10:59,370 And what I like about digital reproduction is you could potentially make lots of copies so a wider audience 167 00:10:59,370 --> 00:11:00,390 can see them. 168 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,600 Maybe I'd rather look at the real painting. 169 00:11:10,090 --> 00:11:10,750 Okay. 170 00:11:10,990 --> 00:11:13,900 So the correct answer for number 21 is a. 171 00:11:15,670 --> 00:11:21,760 They say a so some paintings that have been restored and talk about why the reasons it was necessary, 172 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:22,810 which is need. 173 00:11:23,110 --> 00:11:28,040 So the correct answer for number 21 is a four number 22. 174 00:11:28,060 --> 00:11:34,450 The correct answer is B says, when did the students when the students visited the museum they were 175 00:11:34,450 --> 00:11:35,590 surprised by. 176 00:11:36,460 --> 00:11:39,670 Did you know when they talked about what somebody talks about? 177 00:11:39,670 --> 00:11:45,070 Did you know that's language that indicates somebody is about to say something that's surprising. 178 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:50,590 The most of the restorers we met didn't have a degree in art history. 179 00:11:50,590 --> 00:11:52,420 We're talking about their backgrounds. 180 00:11:52,870 --> 00:11:54,940 So the answer to number 22 is B. 181 00:11:56,460 --> 00:11:58,410 Number 23 is a. 182 00:11:59,070 --> 00:12:03,240 But the thing is, when someone owns the painting you're working on, you've got to get it right. 183 00:12:03,540 --> 00:12:05,280 What if they didn't like the colors you use? 184 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:06,500 That's reaction. 185 00:12:06,510 --> 00:12:07,830 Too much pressure. 186 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:09,150 That's what means. 187 00:12:09,150 --> 00:12:10,110 Put him off. 188 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:17,310 23 is a 24 is a original artist, painted whale on the beach. 189 00:12:17,730 --> 00:12:23,160 And later the painting is bought by someone who thought the whale ruined a pretty scene. 190 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:25,170 That's a paraphrase for choice. 191 00:12:25,210 --> 00:12:28,170 A And then 25 is see. 192 00:12:28,170 --> 00:12:31,050 And what I like deals with the person's attitude. 193 00:12:31,930 --> 00:12:33,820 About the digital reproduction. 194 00:12:34,700 --> 00:12:41,870 So a wider audience which is synonym for accessible to more number 25 is see. 195 00:12:43,050 --> 00:12:43,490 Right? 196 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:44,970 Si, si, si. 197 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:50,810 24. 198 00:12:50,820 --> 00:12:51,960 Why not be? 199 00:12:59,110 --> 00:12:59,410 All right. 200 00:12:59,410 --> 00:13:01,810 So if you look in the description. 201 00:13:03,500 --> 00:13:09,620 If you look at this description right here, distraction, not be for number 24. 202 00:13:09,650 --> 00:13:14,270 Distraction not B be says for number 24. 203 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:23,110 B says it's an example of work that was once undervalued. 204 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:24,420 Right. 205 00:13:24,580 --> 00:13:30,490 Chloe explains that people had viewed the landscape painting for a long time without realising what 206 00:13:30,490 --> 00:13:35,770 the artists had originally included, but that does not suggest that it was undervalued. 207 00:13:36,250 --> 00:13:38,860 That's not a paraphrase of it being undervalued. 208 00:13:40,420 --> 00:13:40,990 All right. 209 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:45,400 There's nothing there's nothing in that language that is undervalued. 210 00:13:54,030 --> 00:13:54,660 I don't. 211 00:13:57,770 --> 00:13:58,250 Yoda. 212 00:13:58,250 --> 00:13:59,420 I don't understand your question. 213 00:13:59,420 --> 00:14:03,950 Can you explain for Xbox One strategy as. 214 00:14:05,110 --> 00:14:05,440 A. 215 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:07,710 Are you? 216 00:14:12,430 --> 00:14:16,240 Jody, are you asking me about the previous question? 217 00:14:20,340 --> 00:14:20,610 Oh. 218 00:14:20,610 --> 00:14:21,060 Okay. 219 00:14:21,090 --> 00:14:21,660 All right. 220 00:14:22,670 --> 00:14:23,240 Okay. 221 00:14:25,900 --> 00:14:30,190 The whoever the person is rhythm I gave I've given all my tips on section three. 222 00:14:30,190 --> 00:14:33,280 That's what that's what this whole class was about. 223 00:14:34,390 --> 00:14:37,270 This whole class was about Section three, basically. 224 00:14:38,490 --> 00:14:40,690 Everything I said is related to Section three. 225 00:14:40,710 --> 00:14:42,420 Section three is. 226 00:14:42,630 --> 00:14:45,000 All these questions are mainly from Section three. 227 00:14:45,630 --> 00:14:51,510 And so everything that I said previous to the practice are all my tips, all my advice, everything 228 00:14:51,510 --> 00:14:52,980 I have about Section three. 229 00:14:55,370 --> 00:14:55,820 All right. 230 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:03,610 The yo yo must be in the right. 231 00:15:03,790 --> 00:15:06,040 I'm sorry if I messed up some of you guys names. 232 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:12,360 Yo, you ask me about this question here? 233 00:15:14,740 --> 00:15:20,650 If you're asking me about this question here, you know what you have to what you have to do. 234 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:27,550 Is, you know, you have to when they give you the time in advance, when they give you the time in 235 00:15:27,550 --> 00:15:28,420 advance. 236 00:15:29,430 --> 00:15:35,310 And you're going through each of these questions and you're pulling out the keywords each of these answer 237 00:15:35,310 --> 00:15:35,640 choices. 238 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:39,630 I'm sorry, here you're pulling out the keywords in each one of these answer choices. 239 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:48,940 You have to have it in your mind that when I'm identifying keywords, I'm not identifying keywords because 240 00:15:48,940 --> 00:15:51,160 I'm listening for a word that I'm going to hear. 241 00:15:51,820 --> 00:15:56,740 I'm identifying key words because I'm trying to listen for words that I have to be able to paraphrase. 242 00:15:57,770 --> 00:15:58,130 Right. 243 00:15:58,130 --> 00:15:58,820 So. 244 00:15:58,820 --> 00:16:01,010 So, for example, for. 245 00:16:02,220 --> 00:16:05,160 For number 29, for example, number 29 is be. 246 00:16:06,730 --> 00:16:08,980 They need to see under the damaged surface. 247 00:16:10,510 --> 00:16:15,340 They said the top layer, the top layer of paint had turned completely black. 248 00:16:16,020 --> 00:16:17,140 That's the same as what? 249 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:21,420 Damaged right at turn completely black because of a smoke from a fire. 250 00:16:21,660 --> 00:16:23,370 The team had to work out. 251 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:25,750 That means what they needed to see. 252 00:16:25,750 --> 00:16:30,340 They had to work out what the colors beneath the layer that means. 253 00:16:30,340 --> 00:16:31,570 Look under the surface. 254 00:16:31,570 --> 00:16:32,560 Beneath the layer. 255 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:34,210 Under the damaged surface. 256 00:16:35,460 --> 00:16:42,240 So if you look at if you look at my explanations that I'm giving, and once I upload this, once I upload 257 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:48,960 this into the into the Udemy course, then you can have, you can take your time and really look through 258 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:50,310 these step by step. 259 00:16:50,850 --> 00:16:58,830 But mentally when you're identifying keywords and these answer choices, understand, you are you have 260 00:16:58,830 --> 00:17:01,380 to be able to pick out paraphrasing. 261 00:17:02,310 --> 00:17:08,760 And that's why in the beginning of this lecture today, I talk so much about synonyms and paraphrasing 262 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:10,920 and exercises you can do to get better at it. 263 00:17:11,220 --> 00:17:13,140 Because I told you, that's the skill. 264 00:17:14,690 --> 00:17:18,860 It's a skills test and that's what you have to get better at doing. 265 00:17:19,910 --> 00:17:22,080 But that's the process. 266 00:17:22,100 --> 00:17:24,170 It's not more it's not complicated. 267 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,430 But it could be difficult to apply. 268 00:17:28,090 --> 00:17:31,240 Austin, if you have a question, ask me in the chat box, please. 269 00:17:37,820 --> 00:17:38,420 All right. 270 00:17:48,330 --> 00:17:48,710 Okay. 271 00:17:48,750 --> 00:17:51,930 So thank you very much for joining. 272 00:17:52,740 --> 00:17:55,440 I'm very happy that you join me today. 273 00:17:55,740 --> 00:18:04,440 The goal the goal of this class was to be able to get you much better at being able to handle multiple 274 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:05,640 choice questions. 275 00:18:06,060 --> 00:18:11,070 It was a very, very subject specific class to have. 276 00:18:12,090 --> 00:18:16,410 I hope that you really enjoyed it and that you really, really benefited from it. 277 00:18:16,770 --> 00:18:22,470 And you have a much deeper understanding of how to handle multiple choice questions. 278 00:18:23,370 --> 00:18:29,100 And also you have a much deeper understanding of what you need to do to improve and get better. 279 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:31,830 So thank you very much for joining me today.