Msbs book dictation Activity Unit 1: The Olympics Listening Practice

Unit 8: The World’s Most Expensive Art Pieces
Listening Practice 1 (CD1, Track 29)
Sebastian: Hey, Vivian. I heard your dad _______ ____ __ _________. Is that true?
Vivian: Hey, Sebastian. Yeah, he goes _________ ____ ________ __________ art ________ for a modern ____ __________ here in London.
Sebastian: What a cool ____! I ____ he gets to see a lot of __________ and __________ pieces of art.
Vivian: Yeah, he ___________ ______. Just last week, a __________ art _________ gave the museum a painting that ________ 50 _________ US dollars!
Sebastian: 50 million US dollars? Who would ______ 50 _________ dollars _____ __ _________?
Vivian: A lot of __________. My dad told me the ______ ___________ painting _____ ______ was for 140 million dollars.
Sebastian: Wow, I didn’t know _____ ______ that expensive! ____ _________ you ________ hear stories of __________ ___ __________.
Vivian: __________! And that is why they all have so many __________ _________.


Listening Practice 2 (CD1, Track 30)
1) The most expensive _______________ ever ______ was called 99 Cent II Diptychon. ___ was sold _____ 3.3 million US dollars in 2007.
2) The most ___________ ___________ ever sold was called For the Love of God. It was sold for 100 million US ________ in 2007.
3) The most expensive __________ ______ ______ was called Number Five. It was ______ _____ 140 million US dollars in 2006.
4) The most expensive _____________ ______ sold was called Portrait of an Artist without a Beard. It _____ _______ _____ 71.5 million US dollars in 1998.


Listening Practice 3 (CD1, Track 31)
Good afternoon, _________ and ____________. ___________ ___ Brinkley’s, the most famous _____ _________ _______ in the world. Today, we are ________ __________ ____ three famous _________: one by Claude Monet, _______ by Vincent Van Gogh, and ____ ________ by Andy Warhol. It is a very __________ __________. The first painting ___ _____ ______ is Poppies Blooming by Claude Monet. It is a painting of Monet’s _______ and ______. The second _________ up for sale is The Yellow House by Vincent Van Gogh. It is a __________ ___a French house that Van Gogh _______ ___. The ________ and ________ painting of today is Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol. It is a painting of 32 ______ ______. The __________ _____ today’s paintings will _______ ____ 5 million dollars. If you _____ ___ __________, please ______ ___ ____ _________ before __________ your painting. ____ _________, all ________ _____ ________, so no _________. Good luck!