4 Art You Can Ride! Did You Understand?

A Match A and B to make sentences.

A B
Most museums tell people “Look, but don’t touch !”1
1. Scott Eady has a. old bikes to fix.
At the Dowse Museum in Wellington, New Zealand, 2. The Dowse Museum is b. three children.
there is an exhibition2 you can look at and touch.
3. At the museum c. in New Zealand.
In fact, you can ride any of the 52 bikes, scooters
5 and tricycles3 at the museum! 4. Scott Eady found d. because they were special.

It all started when Scott Eady wanted to give his three children new 5. His children loved the bikes e. there are 52 bikes,
scooters and tricycles.
bikes, but he didn’t have enough money. He had an idea. He went to
the garbage dump4 and looked for old bikes that people didn’t want.
B Answer the questions.
He took the bikes home, cleaned them, fixed them and painted them.
10 His children loved the new bikes because they were special and no 1. What can you do with the bikes at the Dowse Museum?
one had the same bikes.
Scott loved the work and wanted other children to have fun with new 2. Why didn’t Scott Eady buy bikes for his children?
bikes too. That is why he started a project called “100 Bikes Project”.

For three years he went to the dump two or three times a week and
15 looked for old bikes. He took them home and made new bikes from 3. What is Scott Eady’s project called?
different parts.
After all his hard work, he took the bikes to the Dowse Museum. 4. For how many years did Scott Eady work on the project?
Now children can go to the museum, choose a bike and ride around
in a special part of the museum.
C Would you like to visit this museum? Why or why not?

Vocabulary

A Complete the sentences with the words below.

touch n ride n special n choose n enough

1
touch ‫ تلمسون‬/ ‫תיגעו‬ 1. You can’t have both. You have to one.
2
exhibition ‫ معرض‬/ ‫תערוכה‬ 2. We want to do something for the holiday.
3
tricycle ‫ دراجة ثالثية العجالت‬/ ‫תלת אופן‬ 3. David doesn’t have money to buy an iPod.
4
garbage dump ‫ مقلب نفايات‬/ ‫מזבלה‬
4. Many people their bikes to work.
5. Please don’t anything at the museum.
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 B Look at the pictures. Then complete the sentences with the words
below.
1 2 3

painting n looking for n taking n fixing

1. Scott is old bikes to give his children.

2. Scott is the old bikes to make them “new”.
3. Scott is the bikes different colors.
4. Scott is the bikes to the museum.

Writing

You are visiting the Dowse Museum. Complete the sentences about
your visit. Then add sentences of your own.

1. I am riding a . (bike / scooter / tricycle)

2. It’s and . (pink / blue / yellow / green / gold /
red)
3. It’s ! (great / cool / fun / terrible)
4. I want to .
(come again / go home / choose another bike / ride all the bikes)
5. I don’t want to .
(come again / go home / choose another bike / ride all the bikes)

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