exercise 9a
Work with a partner. Take turns asking and answering.
1. They are at an art museum (the Metropolitan Museum) exploring works of art.
2. They mill around the slab and the corpse like a buffet at a cocktail party.
3. She thinks that they are wondering what the spectators, Theo and his mother, are doing
there.
4. The painter wants to draw the spectators' attention to the painting.
5. The skin is off, it's out of proportion to the rest of the body and the thumb is on the wrong
side.
6. There are so many Asian tourists in front of the painting.
7. He is more interested in a girl he had seen.
8. She has red hair, brown eyes, a sharp face; she is thin and plain-looking.
9. Her clothes are too bland and suburban for a city kid.
10. (your own answers)

exercise 9b
Spot the phrase. How are these expressed in the text?
1. a great art enthusiast
2. shining its own light source
3. he wants to draw our eye to it
4. all out of proportion to the rest of the body
5. on the wrong side
6. didn't do that by mistake
7. we can't put our finger on it
8. something really out of order
9. yet there was something about her
10. On her way to music lesson
11. only half paying attention to what she was saying
12. without looking at me

exercise 9c
Use the given phrases to fill in the story.
1. a great art enthusiast
2. out of proportion
3. can’t put your finger on
4. by mistake
5. drawing our eye to
6. out of order
7. Yet there is something about
8. on the wrong side