A) 7.R7 | Explain the words in bold. You can use your dictionaries or digital reference resources.
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THINK! Which things in the text impressed you?
Write a few sentences. Read your sentences to the class,​

Hey Jessica,
Thank you for your letter, I was very pleased to read about your summer holidays.

I'm doing fine, thanks for your asking. I've spent a couple of weeks in Spain and this was awesome! I enjoyed every day. You know, the crystal clear sea water, warm sun, a great company and the sparkling sun rows on the waves. It was perfect, but it's not the thing, that impressed me most.

Last weekend, I went shopping with my friends Jane and we have found a lot of different beautiful clothes that I was dreaming about, so I brought a kind of souvenirs to my home town.

It's a bit hard to study at school, because I'm elder now and we have more difficult program, but I'm trying to do my best.

Best wishes,

Anya

Impressionism is a very natural stage of art’s (0)… . DEVELOPment
Russian painters had started their (1) … of experiments with light and modified colour schemes before they visited France and got acquainted with French impressionism. unHEARD
And yet, there is a difference between Russian and French impressionistic (2) … in terms of their subject matter, light and colour scheme. DEPICTions
As far as French artists were concerned, they portrayed life differently in (3) … to Russian painters. COMPARison
However, Russian impressionists never attempted to break away from (4) … REALism. Strictly speaking, Vasily Polenov can be regarded as a path (5) … in this field. BREAKer
He was one of the first Russian painters who visited Paris in the 1870s and became (6) … fascinated by impressionism. ENORMOUSly
He didn’t abandon his own distinct painting style, but he made every effort to (7) … his students in Russia with his French findings and encouraged their own artistic explorations. FAMILIARise
Thanks to his (8) … support, his like-minded contemporary artist Konstantin Korovin felt confidence to work differently. ENTHUSIAStic
The Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and (9) … had never had landscape painting classes as this genre was seen as the one for amateurs. ARCHITECTure
V. Polenov was the first to introduce such classes and he was (10) … besieged by students who wanted to paint nature.
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