A New Book on Stealing Rembrandts
The following podcast was taken from VOA, -the Voice of America-. Listen to the recording, and fill in the blanks with the missing information. Print a copy of this listening exercise, and bring it to class.
Provide the right information to complete each statement. | |
1 | A drawing by Rembrandt was stolen from a hotel in ____________________. |
2 | The artwork by Rembrandt was valued more than ____________________. |
3 | The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston was robbed. The thieves stole ____________________. |
4 | The artworks stolen from the museum included pieces by: (check three artists) * Picasso * Manet * Velazquez * Vermeer * Degas * Van Dyke |
5 | After more than 20 years, the artworks can be seen ____________________. |
6 | The book written by Anthony Amore and Tom Mashberg about the history of thefts of Rembrandt works is called: “____________________: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists.” |
7 | Mr. Anthony Amore’s occupation is ____________________. |
8 | Mr. Tom Mashberg’s profession is ____________________. |
9 | Mr. Amore found out through his investigation that art thieve are ____________________. |
10 | According to Amore, these thieves were involved in many types of thefts such as: * bank robberies * casual holdouts * armored car robberies * robbing in drugstores * car theft * breaking into houses |
11 | In the last 100 years there have been approximately __________ cases of Rembrandt artworks thefts. |
12 | The second most stolen artist in the world is _______________. |
13 | To avoid being captured by the police, says Mr. Mashberg, the thieves _______________. |
14 | One of the problems with stolen artworks is that ______________. |
15 | Mashberg says that in several cases the criminals left the artworks in _______________ or in _______________. |
Taken from VOA at http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/arts-entertainment/A-New-Book-on-Stealing-Rembrandts-and-Other-Artworks-129331918.html and adapted for educational purposes.
