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Level A1 • 20 Minutes Lesson

🎨 Art Class: Paints, Brushes and Crayons

Learn 10 easy art words, practice with quick exercises, and shadow real class sentences.

📌 How to use this lesson

FOR TEACHERS

• Teach this 20-minute art vocabulary lesson step by step with your students.

• Check answer keys instantly and listen to your students' speaking recordings.

FOR LEARNERS

• First, read the word table carefully and click to listen to the word sounds.

• Next, complete the 16 practice items and record your voice in the shadowing section.

Word table

Study these 10 art words grouped by theme before doing the exercises.

1. Art things

Word	Meaning	Common Collocations	Example Sentence	Memory Tip
🔊 palette	A flat board to mix paints.	clean palette / paint palette	She puts red paint on her palette.	Say "pal" and "it": a pal for your paint.
🔊 easel	A wooden stand for holding a painting.	wooden easel / paper on the easel	He puts his big paper on the easel.	An easel looks like a big letter A.
🔊 glitter	Small shiny bits of paper or plastic.	shiny glitter / add glitter	The card has gold glitter on it.	"Glit-" sounds like "glow" and "lit".
🔊 sharpener	A tool to make pencils sharp.	pencil sharpener / use a sharpener	I need a sharpener for my green crayon.	"Sharp" is inside "sharpener".

2. Making art

Word	Meaning	Common Collocations	Example Sentence	Memory Tip
🔊 sculpt	To make shapes with clay or stone.	sculpt clay / sculpt a dog	We sculpt a small cat with clay.	Think of "shapes" and "clay".
🔊 dip	To put something into water or paint quickly.	dip a brush / dip in water	Dip your brush into clean water.	Short word for a fast down and up move!
🔊 blend	To mix colors smoothly together.	blend colors / blend yellow and blue	Blend red and yellow to make orange.	Think of a "blender" mixing fruit.

3. A messy class

Word	Meaning	Common Collocations	Example Sentence	Memory Tip
🔊 spill	To let liquid fall by accident.	spill water / spill red paint	Do not spill your water on the floor.	Water goes "spl!" on the floor.
🔊 stain	A mark that is hard to wash away.	paint stain / dark stain	The red paint leaves a stain on my shirt.	"Stain" stays on your shirt!
🔊 sticky	Like glue. It sticks to your hands.	sticky glue / sticky hands	My fingers are sticky from the glue.	"Stick" means it sticks to you!

Practice

16 easy items to test your art vocabulary.

Part A: Collocation Matrix

Match each art word to the phrase it goes with.

Word

water on the floor

red and yellow together

the brush into water

1. dip

____water on the floor ____red and yellow together ____the brush into water

2. spill

____water on the floor ____red and yellow together ____the brush into water

3. blend

____water on the floor ____red and yellow together ____the brush into water

4. Which phrase goes best with "sticky"?

____ a. sticky easel ____ b. sticky hands ____ c. sticky sharpener

Part B: Gap-fill

Choose words from the word bank to fill in the blanks.

WORD BANK

dip stain sharpener easel palette spill glitter sculpt

5. Dialogue in art class:

A: My pencil is not sharp.
B: Here, use my pencil ____.

6. Decorating a greeting card:

I put gold ____ on my birthday card.

7. Working with clay and paint:

We sculpt a small cup. Then we mix the paint on a ____.

8. Washing your brush:

First, ____ your brush into clean water before you start painting.

Part C: Choose the word

Choose the word that best fits the sentence meaning.

9. Our teacher puts the big paper on the ___ so we can stand and paint.

____ a. easel ____ b. palette ____ c. sharpener

10. Oh no! The red paint left a dark ___ on my white shirt.

____ a. palette ____ b. stain ____ c. sharpener

11. We use soft gray clay to ___ a cute dog.

____ a. sculpt ____ b. blend ____ c. dip

12. My fingers are ___ because I touched the glue.

____ a. sharp ____ b. wooden ____ c. sticky

Part D: Sentence-building

Rewrite the words in the right order to form a full sentence.

EXAMPLE PATTERN

"This blue crayon is mine."

13. Put the words in order:

( sharpener / need / a / pencil / I )

____

14. Put the words in order:

( paper / The / is / easel / on / the )

____

15. Put the words in order:

( blue / Blend / yellow / and / paint )

____

16. Put the words in order:

( has / shirt / My / a / stain )

____

🎙️ Shadowing Section

Listen to the speaker and record your voice for all 10 items.

Collocation 1 🔊 Listen

dip the brush

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Collocation 2 🔊 Listen

clean the palette

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Collocation 3 🔊 Listen

spill red paint

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Collocation 4 🔊 Listen

sticky hands

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Sentence 1 🔊 Listen

I need a pencil sharpener.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Sentence 2 🔊 Listen

Put paper on the easel.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Sentence 3 🔊 Listen

Blend red and yellow paint.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Sentence 4 🔊 Listen

The gold glitter is shiny.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Sentence 5 • Key Word 🔊 Listen

Clean your paint palette now.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Sentence 6 • Key Word 🔊 Listen

We sculpt a clay cat.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Art Class Vocabulary and Pronunciation

🎨 Art Class: Paints, Brushes and Crayons

📌 How to use this lesson

Word table

Practice

Part A: Collocation Matrix

Part B: Gap-fill

Part C: Choose the word

Part D: Sentence-building

🎙️ Shadowing Section

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