Prepositions

It's time to learn both art and prepositions! These are two marvellous pieces of art by two 19th century painters:

Echo and Narcissus (1903), by John William Waterhouse.

Narcissus' mother knew her son was very handsome. She told him that looking at his own reflection would be fatal for him. Echo was a forest nymph who had fallen in love with Narcissus, but he didn't pay any attention to her.

One day, he was very thirsty. He found a pond deep into the forest and he couldn't help looking at his reflection on the surface of the water. He became trapped by his own image and after many days without eating, he died. His corpse then turned into a plant that nowadays flourishes by humid locations; the narcissus.

The Fighting Temeraire (1838), by Joseph Mallord William Turner.

By the middle of the 19th century, the old sailing boats were replaced by modern steamboats, which were faster and did not have to rely on wind to move. In this picture, the Sun sets as the HMS Temeraire finishes her last trip to be dismantled. After fighting in many wars, these beautiful ships faced their last days and their future disappeared in the same way the Sun disappears beyond the horizon.

Exercises:

1) Create definitions (not translations) for every word in bold in the texts. Write them in your notebook. Remember the defined word may not be in the definition.

2) Locate the following characters or items in the pictures by using prepositions (above, under, on, at the bottom of...). You shall locate them through full sentences. For example:

Echo is next to a tree.

You must write these sentences in your notebook. The characters and items you must locate are:

First picture
-Echo
-Narcissus
-The tree
-The yellow flowers
-The rest of the forest.

Second picture
-HMS Temeraire
-The steamboat
-The Sun
-The city.