Shared by Remedios Gómez:
Salvador Dalí's "Figura en una finestra" is an ideal work of art for dealing with the current topic of confinement with upper secondary school pupils. In this painting we can see a woman leaning out of a wide-open window overlooking the sea.
This scene, sadly, has been very common during confinement, above all in moments of anguish and anxiety caused by the prohibition of leaving your home. In this case, Anna Maria, the woman in the painting, is very lucky because she can see the sea and thus, let off some steam, while confinement for people living in blocks of flats may have been challenging.
Therefore, by displaying the painting, together with the word ‘confinement’, a debate on the above ideas mentioned can be generated. Students can empathise with the picture and tell their own experiences lived with that feeling of anxiety and the need for breathing by opening the windows.
We can teach adjectives connected to feelings caused by being confined, that is, adjectives with a negative meaning (anxious, nervous), but also, positive adjectives can be addressed by mentioning how people felt when strict confinement ended (relieved, joyful).
The grammar aspects we can revise with this task is the Present Perfect: "How your routines have changed" on the one hand, and the structure ‘stop+ing’ on the other hand. Focusing on the painting, students are asked: ‘How do you think Anna Maria’s routines have changed during confinement?’, ‘what has she stopped doing?’. They discuss in pairs and then some ideas are told aloud (for example, ‘Anna Maria has stopped practising sports’).
As a follow-up task, you can ask students to imagine Anna Maria’s confinement routine and write a composition about it.
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