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Making it easier
Read all the exercises before you listen to the audio.
Look up the words in the exercises that you don't know or don't understand in a dictionary.
Play the audio as many times as you need.
Play each part of the audio separately.
Answer all questions in the exercise.
Read the transcript after you have listened to the audio.
Making it harder
Listen to the audio before you read the exercises.
Only play the audio once before answering the questions.
Play the whole audio without a break.
Don't read the transcript.
Now, listen to the audio and do the exercises on the following tabs.
If you do not complete all the question, you can play the audio again.
After that, read the dialog to make sure that you understand all word in the audio.
What part of painting is satisfying to the speaker?
Producing something from nothing
Getting compliments about her work
Working with other painters
Mixing many different colours
How is painting a form of therapy for the speaker?
She talks with others about the art.
She moves around a lot while painting.
She gets her thoughts down with the paint.
She feels good when she sells a painting.
Why does the speaker mention reading a book?
To show similarities to other kinds of therapy
To contrast that feeling with painting
To explain where she gets her ideas
To tell what she often does before painting
What is the speaker's main feeling about painting?
She paints for emotional satisfaction.
She is rarely in the mood to paint.
She likes to paint any time she can.
She finds it emotionally hard to paint.
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Why do I paint.
Well, that's a very hard question to answer.
But, I paint, because I enjoy it.
And because I find a great sort of satisfaction in producing something from nothing.
And I paint also as a form of therapy.
To alleviate my thoughts and get them down.
I learn a lot about myself, by painting.
By thinking, and by putting marks down on a piece of paper or canvas, or something.
I suppose it's an emotional experience to go through.
I can't just suddenly pick up a paintbrush and paint.
It takes maybe, sometimes half a day to get me in the mood.
Other times not. So, it's not really just like sitting down and reading a book.
It involves feeling right at the time.
Why I paint is a hard one to pinpoint.
But I love it and It's an emotional passion.