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Ana Alonso

The Seven Portraits of Mr GruntIllustrated by Antonia Santolaya

Includes audio CD

1st edition: March 2015

© Text: Ana Alonso, 2015Linguistic 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.)

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Cover design: Miguel Ángel Pacheco and Javier Serrano

ISBN: 978-84-678-7119-7D. 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)

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system , or transmitted, in any form or by any means

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Ana Alonso

The Seven Portraits

of Mr GruntIllustrations

by Antonia Santolaya

Contents

List of characters ..................................... 5

Act IScene 1 ........................................................ 7Scene 2 ........................................................ 12Scene 3 ........................................................ 22

Act IIScene 1 ........................................................ 27Scene 2 ........................................................ 32Scene 3 ........................................................ 39

Act IIIScene 1 ........................................................ 47Scene 2 ........................................................ 55Scene 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

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ACT ISCENE 1

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.

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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!

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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