1. Which of arts from the list above can you call visual arts? 2. What role ao arts play in people lives? In your life?

1. Painting, drawing and sculpture can be called visual arts.2. Arts brighten people’s lives. They teach us to understand life and people better and to admire beauty.3. The early primitive art began in prehistoric times. The greatest works of art appeared in the ancient times - they were theatre, singing, in the Middle Ages - it was architecture, during the Renaissance period - they were literature, theatre and painting, in the 18th-19th centuries - they were music, literature, in the 20th century - they are all modern arts.4. Great literature was produced in many countries: Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Russia and others. Visual arts were especially developed in Italy, France, Russia, Spain, also Japan and China. Great Britain, France, Greece, Russia are famous for a high standard of theatre and Italy for great opera productions. The USA, France, Italy, Japan and Russia are famous for their cinema.5. Hollywood in the USA is connected with cinema; Florence is connected with painting, sculpture and architecture; Milan is connected with opera; Paris is connected with painting; Stratford-upon-Avon is connected with theatre; Vienna is connected with music; Moscow is connected with music and ballet; St Petersburg is connected with literature, etc.6. Speaking about prehistoric art we usually mean early dancing and the first drawings that prehistoric people made. Speaking of ancient art we usually mean Greek theatre and singing and Greek and Roman architecture. By Renaissance art we usually understand the visual arts, theatre and literature of this period. When we speak about classical art, we usually mean the arts of the 18th and 19th centuries, and by modern art we understand the arts of this century.7. If I want to enjoy the arts, I will go to theatres, cinemas, opera houses, concert halls, art galleries and exhibitions, sometimes to libraries.8. I can draw pictures, do sculptures, write poems, play musical instruments.9. То my way of thinking the most popular arts nowadays are architecture and music.10. As for me cinema is more popular than theatre nowadays. I prefer both of them.11. I think radio and television are not arts.