Vocabulary for IELTS
The Arts – Art forms created by humans, divided into visual, literary, and performing.
Sentence – Why is there such a divorce between the arts and the sciences in this country’s schools?
Culture – The systems of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion that are shared by a relatively large group of people.
Sentence – We speak Danish at home so that the boys don’t lose touch with their language and culture.
Creative – Relating to or involving the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work.
Sentence – A diligent person, although because of his hard work and damage to his spiritual insight or fresh and creative, but he still will be praised.
Classical – Music that is considered to be part of a long especially formal tradition and to be of lasting value.
Sentence – I could not force my body into the contortions required by classical ballet.
Musical – A play or film in which part of the story is sung to music (noun).
Sentence – Some of the younger pop bands try to imitate their musical heroes from the past.
Opera – An art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and music, usually in a theatre.
Sentence – The six principal roles in this opera have an average vocal range of two octaves.
Theatre – A building, room, or outside structure with rows of seats, each row usually higher than the one in front, from which people can watch a performance or other activity.
Sentence – The theatre was evacuated when rain poured through the roof at the Liverpool Playhouse.
Performance – A show or action involving the entertaining of other people by dancing, singing, acting, or playing music.
Sentence – Further investment is contingent upon the company’s profit performance.
Festival – An organized set of special events, such as musical, art or film performances.
Sentence – The accusation of elitism seems unfair as the festival presents a wide range of music, with something to please everyone.
Exhibition – An event at which objects such as paintings are shown to the public.
Sentence – We only had a couple of hours to set up before the exhibition opened.
Sculpture – The art of making two- or three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, especially by carving stone or wood.
Sentence – Those were the halcyon days of Athens ( fifth century BC ) when she produced her finest poetry and drama, architecture and sculpture.
Abstract – A type of painting, drawing, or sculpture that uses shapes, lines, and colour in a way that does not try to represent the appearance of people or things.
Sentence – I want to see an abstract sculpture that represents the essence in each of you.
Display – A collection of objects or pictures arranged for people to look at, or a performance or show for people to watch (= being shown).
Sentence – The exhibition gives local artists an opportunity to display their work.
Inspired – To be filled with the urge or ability to do or feel something, especially to do something creative.
Sentence – His speech inspired the soldiers with courage.
Artefact – An object that is made by a person, such as a tool or a decoration, especially one that is of historical interest.
Sentence – In museum culture the original physical artefact is venerated at the expense of a replica, duplicate, reconstruction, or hologram.
Choreograph – Compose the sequence of steps and moves for a ballet or other performance of dance.
Sentence – The commemorative battle was sufficiently well choreographed to avoid serious damage … although there were still plenty of cuts and bruises.
