Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail

REVIEW Lesson #6

Crossword Puzzle

1 Down Sylvette was so ____ that she al-ways sat by herself.

2 Down Sylvette _____ed away many se-crets and tried to forget.

3 Across Sylvette got up her _______ and told her secrets to Picasso.

3 Across Sylvette got up her _______ and told her secrets to Picasso.

Which Sentence is Incor-rect

a) Picasso made a huge sculpture of Sylvette with a key in her bag

b) Sylvette and her friends saw Pi-casso holding a picture above his head.

c) Sylvette eventually became a well-known artist herself.

d) Sylvette chose the very first picture Picasso had drawn of her.

Please write down these words!

• Ring• Sylvette• Round• Strange• Cheetah• Long• Left

Choose the correct words, and place them into the

paragraph.Picasso started working on a huge

sculpture of Sylvette. It had a _________

neck, but the head was so _________ that Sylvette didn’t think it looked like her at all. The sculp-ture is holding a _________

Handbag, as well as an iron key in its ________ hand.

Choose the correct word!

1) Picasso made a huge sculp-ture of Sylvette with a (key/book) in her hand.

Choose the correct word!

2) Sylvette and her friends saw Picasso holding a (sculp-ture/picture) above his head.

Choose the correct word!

3) Sylvette eventually became a well-known (writer/artist) herself.

Choose the correct word!

4) Picasso gave Sylvette the very (first/last) picture of her.

Example of an Exam question.Writing. Please write down this

paragraph.

While Picasso worked, Syl-vette began telling him the secrets that she had locked away and tried to forget. She talked about the time her father left her family.

Sylvette kept a picture of him in her suitcase, but she had never told anyone how sad and lonely she had been since that day.

Picasso looked up at her and said, “It is very hard when people leave us.” Then he smiled, saying, “But try to remember, when one door closes, an-other door opens.”

Choose the most appropriate sentence which best describes

the passage.

• A) Be honest when you paint a picture.

• B) Never tell your secrets to other people.

• C) Lose hope but believe in pos-sibilities.

• D) Try to remember your father.

A) True or False!

1) Sylvette was sitting with a few friends on the terrace in the sun.

2) In a suitcase under her bed was a sketchbook full of her paintings.

TRUE

FALS

E

B) True or False!

3) Sylvette was the girl with-out a Ponytail.

4) Picasso saw the children from his studio, and made a sketch. TR

UE

FALS

E

C) True or False!

5) All through the summer Pi-casso drew and made sculp-tures of Sylvette’s friends.

6) When Picasso is angry he makes happy paintings. When he is sad he makes angry paintings.

FALS

EFA

LSE

D) True or False

7) Picasso made a huge sculp-ture of Sylvette. It had a long neck, and round hand-bag.

8) “Soon it will all fade away, like summer,” Sylvette said to Picasso.

TRUE

FALS

E

E) True or False

9) Sylvette told secrets to Pi-casso that she had locked away and tried to forget.

10) Picasso told Sylvette. “When one door opens, an-other door closes.”

TRUE

FALS

E

F) True or False

11) Picasso began searching through bits and pieces un-til he found a key.

12) Sylvette was puzzled when Picasso pushed a big iron key into the hand of the sculpture.

TRUE

TRUE

G) True or False

13) Picasso gave Sylvette a present because it was the end of summer.

14) Sylvette chose the very

first drawing Picasso had drawn of her.TR

UE

FALS

E

H) True or False

15) Sylvette became a well known artist herself.

16) Scott has long blonde hair.

FALS

ETRUE