Treasure Hunt

One of the popular tasks for learning English nowadays is Treasure Hunt. This task is based on some interesting topic and includes an introduction, questions on the theme and Internet Resources with the help of which students may answer the questions.  
This task is very useful to improve different skills of English learner: reading skill and, especially detachment of important information and main theses from less useful facts. You can try out my Treasure Hunt below. :)

STREET ART HUNT

An Internet Treasure Hunt on street art

Introduction.

All of us got accustomed to understand painting, music, theatre, literature, etc by the term “art’. But nowadays a huge amount of art streams exists, some of them have a lot of representatives and fans, some of them don`t. With the help of Internet Resources you can take a closer look at the conception of the Street Art.

With the help of each Resource Link try to find information and answer the questions below. After finding all the answers, move to the Big Question to bring your ideas together in a broader understanding of the topic.

The Questions        

1.   How did graffiti become art?

2.   Do you suppose graffiti to be a vandalism or an art?

3.   What forms of street art do exist?

4.   Russian street art: imitation or originality?

5.   Who is Banksy – a vandal upstart or a genius artist?

Internet Resources

Question 1:

http://www.timeout.com/london/art/how-graffiti-became-art

Question 2, 3:

http://artradarjournal.com/2010/01/21/what-is-street-art-vandalism-graffiti-or-public-art-part-i/

Question 4:

http://postsovietgraffiti.com/the-history-of-street-art-in-russia-part-one/

Question 5:

http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/index1.html

The Big question

After reading about Street Art try to express your opinion on the theme. To your mind, does the street art have a chance to become an integral part of Art or do you believe that it is a crime and all its representatives must stop their creativity?