Ana Alonso
The Seven Portraits of Mr Grunt Illustrated by Antonia Santolaya
Includes audio CD
1st edition: March 2015
© Text: Ana Alonso, 2015 Linguistic supervision: David Silles McLaney © Illustrations: Antonia Santolaya, 2011 © Cover photography: Anaya’s Image Library © Work card photography: Anaya’s Image Library (Cosano, P.; García Pelayo, Á.; Martin, J.) © Grupo Anaya, S. A., Madrid, 2015 Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, 15. 28027 Madrid www.pinchofsalt.es www.anayainfantilyjuvenil.com e-mail: anayainfantilyjuvenil@anaya.es
Cover design: Miguel Ángel Pacheco and Javier Serrano
ISBN: 978-84-678-7119-7 D. L.: M-768/2015 Printed in Spain - Impreso en España
Note: The audio contains the recording of all the Book (locution by Ronald Graham Purvis and Tracy Hobbs)
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Ana Alonso
The Seven Portraits of Mr Grunt Illustrations
by Antonia Santolaya
Contents List of characters ...................................... 5 Act I Scene 1 ......................................................... 7 Scene 2 ......................................................... 12 Scene 3 ......................................................... 22 Act II Scene 1 ......................................................... 27 Scene 2 ......................................................... 32 Scene 3 ......................................................... 39 Act III Scene 1 ......................................................... 47 Scene 2 ......................................................... 55 Scene 3 ......................................................... 65
List of characters Max (The Magic Painter) Liza (His Niece) The Captain Serafin Mr Grunt Betty (The Whale) Mr Ordinary Mr Spots Mr Wild Mr Excessive Mr Dreams Mr Clippings Mr Music
ACT I SCENE 1
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Max’s painting studio. Max is checking his supplies while his niece Liza takes notes. MAX: Write it down, Liza. We need a tube of green oil paint, and two tubes of yellow paint. I’m painting a sunny landscape and I need a lot of yellow to paint the sun. LIZA: Okay, two tubes of yellow paint. I have it. The doorbell rings three times. MAX: It must be Captain Camera. Can you open the door, Liza? LIZA: Yes, of course. Liza opens the door. Enters The Captain.
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MAX: Hello, friend, how is it going? THE CAPTAIN: Hello, Max, hello, Liza. Quickly, you must come with me. I’ve got a client for you. MAX: Good… But can’t he wait a little? We are writing a shopping list. THE CAPTAIN: Sorry, but we must go immediately. Mr Grunt is a very special man, and he’ll get angry if we are late. Max puts on his coat. MAX: Okay, but Liza is coming too. Put on your jacket, Liza. Liza puts on her jacket. LIZA: That man, Mr Grunt… Do we know him? MAX: Is he Matthias Grunt, the millionaire? THE CAPTAIN: Yes, he is. He has oil wells in the Middle East and in the North Sea. And he is very, very rich. His house is so big that you have to take a car to go from the living room to the kitchen. And his swimming pool is so large that he keeps a whale in it. 10
It is his pet. Other people have dogs or cats, but Mr Grunt has a whale. And he adores it! LIZA: How strange! MAX: And what does he want me to do? THE CAPTAIN: He will tell you soon. Let’s go and see him! Are you ready? LIZA AND MAX: Yes, we are!
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The Seven Portraits of Mr Grunt
Max is a magic artist. Mr Grunt visits Max to ask him to paint many portraits of himself. Mr Grunt wants to talk to them because he feels lonely. Max will use different artistic styles and will manage to paint seven completely different portraits of Mr Grunt. With this book you will learn‌
To become familiar with the representation of the human figure and to compare different styles of painting. It is written as a play, so you can set up a theatre stage and act it out with your classmates.
Reading level: Pre-Intermediate [A2-B1]
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