People And Arts #3

Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail

Page 142. Lesson #3

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The next day, Picasso started working on a huge sculpture of Sylvette.

Reading p142 It had a long neck and a round handbag just like hers, but the head was so strange that Sylvette didn’t think it looked like her head at all.

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As she watched, she suddenly had a feeling that this would be the last time Picasso would use her as his model.

Reading p142 Since the day on the terrace, she had spent little time away from him. ‘Soon it will all fade away, like the summer,’ she thought to herself.

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While Picasso worked, Sylvette began telling him the secrets that she had locked away and tried to forget.

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She talked about the time her father left her family. Sylvette kept a picture of him in her suitcase,

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but she had never told anyone how sad and lonely she had been since that day.

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Picasso looked up at her and said, “It is very hard when people leave us.” Then he smiled saying,

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“But try to remember, when one door closes, another door opens.”

Comprehension QuestionWhat did Picasso mean when he said, “when one door closes, another door opens.”

Picasso meant: When something ends, something else begins.

Vocabulary

Huge: Something very big.

“Picasso started working on a huge sculpture of Sylvette.”

Some HUGE sculptures.

Vocabulary

Fade away: Disappear slowly.

“Soon it will all fade away, like summer. ”

A picture of summer fading away!

VocabularyLock away: To hide somethin

g. To keep something secret.

“Sylvette began telling him secrets that she had locked away and tried to forget.”

I have locked away too many secrets in my

mind…..Now, I have a headache…..

Vocabulary

Look up at.

“Picasso looked up at her and said, …”

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