Frida Kahlo: Painting the Pain

All levels48 minFamous PeopleLesson 2 of 6 · Outline

Aims

A bus accident, a bed, a mirror and a lifetime of self-portraits. How one Mexican painter turned her own life into her subject, for B1 students.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. News10 min

    In the news: The story

    Read a 162-word news story: A bed, a mirror, and a painter who made herself the subject

  1. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Words to know

    6 items

  2. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: The bed and the mirror

    2 discussion questions

  3. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Making something from a bad year

    3 discussion questions

  4. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Fame after death

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

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