Corporacin Instituto del Mar

Escuela Industrial Superior de Valparaso

Departamento de Ingls

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Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Objective: The student will be able to analyze and to explain Reading comprehension
strategies.
Pre Reading Instruction:
1) Look at the title.
2) Look at the pictures.
3) Predict the content of the text: What do you think the text is about?
4) Look at the text for cognates: underline 10.
5) Look at the text for the known words. Underline 5.
6) Look at the dictionary for 20 unknown words.

Art in the street: The story behind Banksy

Banksy (1974 -- ) is a graffiti artist from Bristol, UK, whose artwork has appeared throughout
London and other locations around the world. Despite this he carefully manages to keep his real
name from the mainstream media. However, many newspapers assert that his real name is
Robert or Robin Banks.
Banksy, despite not calling himself an artist, has been considered by some as talented in that
respect; he uses his original street art form, often in combination with a distinctive stencilling
technique, to promote alternative aspects of politics from those promoted by the mainstream
media.
Some believe that his stencilled graffiti provides a voice for those living in urban environments
that could not otherwise express themselves, and that his work is also something which
improves the aesthetic quality of urban surroundings; many others disagree, asserting that his
work is simple vandalism (a claim made by at least Peter Gibson, spokesperson for Keep Britain
Tidy), or that his (apparently left wing) beliefs are not shared by the majority of the inhabitants
of the environments that he graffitis. This political purpose behind his vandalism is reminiscent
of the Ad Jammers or subvertising movement, who deface corporate advertising to change the
intended message and hijack the advert.
Banksy does, however, also do paid work for charities (e.g., Greenpeace) as well as demanding
up to 25,000 for canvases. It has also been alleged [citation needed] and denied [citation
needed] that Banksy has done work with corporations such as Puma. This has led to him being
accused of being a sellout and a careerist by other artists and activists.
Due to the shroud of secrecy surrounding his real identity and his subversive character; Banksy
has achieved somewhat of a cult following from some of the younger age group within the
stencilling community.
In 2004 the Space Hijackers gave out spoof vouchers outside a Banksy exhibition to highlight the
artist's ironic use of anti-capitalist and protest imagery while doing work for corporations and
art galleries.
Another of Banksy's tricks involved hanging a piece of his own art in London's Tate Modern, and
as of March 2005, the New York Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Brooklyn Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History. In May 2005 Bansky's version
of primitive cave painting depicting a human figure hunting wildlife while pushing a shopping
cart was found hanging in the British Museum.
On 4 August 2005, the BBC reported that Banksy had painted 9 images on the Palestinian side of
the Israeli West Bank barrier, including an image of a ladder up and over the wall and an image

of children digging a hole through the wall. Banksy has also self-published several books that
contain photos of his work in various countries as well as some of his canvas work and
exhibitions, accompanied by his own subversive and often witty writings. His first book,
published in black and white, is Banging your head against a brick wall followed by the full color
Existencilism. In 2004 he published his third book, Cut it Out, and 2005 saw the publication by
Random House of Wall and Piece.
A common technique in Banksy's art is to play on the perspective and edges of the item on
which he is stencilling. Examples include 'trapdoors', 'criminal rats', photo opportunities and
'peeing soldiers Performing a who is lookup on Banksy's website reveals that the registrant is
Stephen Lazarides, a photographer. It has been suggested that Lazarides is Banksy also going
under the name of gHOSTbOY. However Lazarides is actually Banksy's manager and Banksy has
gone to great lengths to conceal his identity. Whilst creating artwork for Wall of Sounds's "Two
Culture Clash" in Jamaica a number of photographs were purportedly taken of him by the
event's official photographer, Peter Dean Rickards. After the pair had a number of
disagreements, Rickards later sold the supposed photos of Banksy to the London Evening
Standard. Rickards then published an article on a website entitiled "Just who the fuck is
Banksy?!?". There are arguments for and against the veracity of the photographs.
While Reading Instruction:
1) Read the text and give complete answers to the following questions:
a) What is the main idea of the text?
b) What is the purpose of the text?
c) Who is the main character in the text?
d) What does he use his stencilling techniques for?
e) What was found hanging in the British Museum?
f) What is the common technique in Banksys art? Give two examples.
Post Reading Instruction:
1) Select a paragraph in the text. Mark the selected paragraph with a bracket ()
2) Select three sentences in the text. Underline them in the text.
3) Identify the subject. Highlight it in the text.
4) Identify the verb. Highlight it in the text.
6) Write a complete sentence in Spanish.
7) Compare the sentences structure both in Spanish and English.
Criterias
Responsabilidad

2
Estudiante
cumple
solo
una de las
entregas.
No cumple formato en Cumple
ambas entregas.
formato en una
de las entregas.

4
Estudiante trabaja
en clase y cumple
con
ambas
entregas.
Cumple formato
en ambas entregas
de forma ptima.

Responde Item 1

No responde item 1.

Responde tem 1
al 100.

Responde Item 2

No responde tem 2.

Formato

1
Estudiante no cumple
entrega en plazo
correspondiente.

Responde Item 3 Igual a tem anterior.

Asertividad
en Erra superior al 80%.
respuestas.
Ortografa
y Idm tem anterior.
sentido.

3
Estudiante
no
trabaja en clases,
cumple
con
entregas.
Cumple formato
en ambas entregas
de
forma
deficiente.
Responde tem Responde tem 1
1 entre un 20 entre un 60-99.
60
Responde tem Responde tem 2
2 entre un 20 y entre un 60 99.
un 60.

Responde tem 2
al 100.

Erra superior al Erra superior al No

60%
80%
errores.

comete