Greetings, students. Now that you’re in Year 3 of your American English studies, you will be able to read, and listen about one of VOA’s “As It Is” articles, which explore issues in the news in the United States of American as well as in countries all over the world. You are encouraged to carefully read the article and the vocabulary words, as well as listen to the article. Finally, you are invited to share what you learned by discussing why this article is important and meaningful in the comments section below.
Directions: Read the article and study the vocabulary below.
Directions: Listen to the audio recording of the article.
Directions: Share your insights about why this article is meaningful and important by writing in the comments section below.
Hello, Hindcfrom Iraq.
Ivory Coast man turns old Flip Flops into Artwork.
Aman from Ivory Coast has found a creative way to repurpose footwear that washes up on the beach..he turns it into artwork, while he has created works that can sell for up to $ 1,000 because he cuts the ranger and plastic bottoms from the footwear into pieces and uses to create large collages in spite of before this period, that rubbish people who have thrown into the sea and the sea brings it back to us, in Abidjan Ivory Coast economic capital means make art from shoes .
Lesson 3.9.4 Year 3
VOA’s As It Is Article.
” Ivory Coast Man Turns Old Flip-Flops into Work”.
Aristide Kouame is 26 years old man from Ivory Coast has found a creative way to repurpose footwears that washes up on the beach. He turned all the litter lying on the beach into his artwork. Kouame told Reuters news agency that,” this the rubbish people have thrown into the sea and the sea brings it back to us because it doesn’t want it ”. He makes art from used shoes and a way to give life to the objects that litter on the beach. He creates shapes, letters and faces with rubber pieces, he picked up on the beach, as his material is not costly and does not harm the environment.
in just a few years his work of method caught the attention of the people of Ivory Coast. His works and art pieces made through litter lying on the beach, have hanged in the art galleries of Ivory coast and other countries too.
Aristide Kouame plans to keep collecting and creating, ” his goal is to get people to question the issue of their environment, in order to create a better life.
I found the above article very meaningful and purposeful, that how a skilled man uses his skills to change the environment with rubbish lying on the beaches.