Teaching English through e-learning

Read the article. Choose from the list A-F the sentence which best summarises each part of the article.

A   Hirst believes that other people can do the work but he is still the artist. ___

B  Charles Saatchi has been a big influence on Hirst’s success. ___

C   His best  known work shows an interest in the subject of Death. ___

D   Since he finished working with Saatchi, Hirst has continued to be successful. ___

E   Many people do not believe that Hirst is an artist. ___

F   Hirst has made a lot of Money from his art. ___

Damien Hirst – Artist or Entrepreneur ?

1.  Born in Bristol on 7 June 1965. Damien Hirst is the best known member of the group that has been called the „ Young British Artists“. Damien became known after the collector Charles Saatchi started supporting his work. His work was first shown in 1992 in the first Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in North London. Throughout the nineties, it was Saatchi’s support that certainly contributed to Hirst’s success.
2.  Hirst’s first major work was titled The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living and was a large dead tiger shark in formaldehyde* in a glass tank. Death is a central theme in Hirst’s work. He is mostly known for his Natural History series, in which dead animals (such as a shark , a sheep or a cow) are preserved, sometimes cut-up, in formaldehyde.
3. The sale of this work, in 2004, made his second most expensive living artist. In June 2004, Hirst became the most expensive living artist with the sale of a medicine chest, Lullaby Spring, for 9,65m at Sotheby’s in London.
4. What maked Hirst so controversial is that he is often accused of becoming succesful because of work done by other people. It is true that he has many assistants working with him and Hirst believes their work is also his work. This is because he sees the real creative act as being the idea, not the actual making of the piece. Therefore, i t is creator ot the idea who is the artist.
5. There has also been much disscussion on whether Hirst’s work  is art or not. One critic has said that a stuffed animal on the wall is more art than the work of Hirst. There is also a group of artists who are aganist the work of Hirst. Called the Stuckists, in 2003 they opened an  exhibition which showed a shark in the window of the front of a shop. Named A Dead Shark Isn’t Art, the Stuckist showed that this was a real shop window that Hirst may have often walked past  some time in his life before creating The Physical Impossibility . . .
6. Regardless of such critism and despite the breakdown of the relationship between Saatchi and Hirst, the artist’s  popularity continues to grow steadily. In May 2007, an exhibition of Hirst’s new work presented For The Love of God, a human skull recreated in platinum and covered with 8,60l diamonds. Approximately  15m worth of diamonds were used. On 30 August 2007, Hirst outdid his previous sale of Lullaby Spring when For The Love of God was sold for 50m to an unknown investment group.

Look at the article  and find one  example of each of the different types of adverbs.

1 adverb of time: _____________

2 adverb of certainty: _____________

3 adverb of place: ______________

4 adverb of frequency: ____________

5 adverb of degree: _____________

6 adverb of manner: _____________