Activity 1

Unit 1 Dreams come true

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An artist in our community

Isabel Carter is a talented portrait painter. Who is much admired in our community. Although she is quite young. She has already achieved a great deal. Her portraits, which have been exhibited in local galleries and art shows, use bold strokes of color to express character and mood. Everyone in our community is familiar with Ms. Carter’s portraits. Because many if them depict people we all know. Her vision and technique make you see a person you thought you knew remarkable. Ms. Carter has painted many beautiful portraits of people. Whom she has encountered around the world, and they are as fascinating to us as the portraits of people we know. If she can get financial support. She will study painting in Italy next year.

An artist in our community (Corrected)

Isabel Carter is a talented portrait painter who is much admired in our community. Although she is quite young, she has already achieved a great deal. Her portraits, which have been exhibited in local galleries and art shows, use bold strokes of color to express character and mood. Everyone in our community is familiar with Ms. Carter’s portraits because many of them depict people we all know. Her vision and technique make you see a person you thought you knew remarkable. Ms. Carter has painted many beautiful portraits of people whom she has encountered around the world, and they are as fascinating to us as the portraits of people we know. If she can get financial support, she will study painting in Italy next year.

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Madonna was born on August 16th in 1958; her real name is Madonna Louise Ciccone. She is a singer-songwriter, an entertainer, a dancer, a record producer, a film producer, a film director, a fashion designer, an author, an actress and an entrepreneur. Madonna was born in Bay City, Michigan; and raised in Rochester Hills. Also, she plays guitar and percussion.

She’s acted in 22 films. Although most failed critically and commercially, she earned a Golden Globe Award for her role in the 1996 film Evita. Madonna is married with Ritchie, they have two sons, Rocco and David Banda, a Malawian boy whom they adopted in 2006, which caused media allegations they violated that country's adoption laws.

Finally, she has been regarded as "one of the greatest pop acts of all time" and dubbed the "Queen of Pop" by various sources.