Match the words from the text with their a) synonyms, b) antonyms

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conventional
maker 
reject
once a year 
bring about
productive 
justly
give rise to 
b) words from the text antonyms 
revival
worsen 
modification
extinction
reconciliation
unrelated 
accept
separation 
value
uniformity 
benefit
disregard 
relevant
reject 
4. Put in the right forms of adjectives in brackets. 
1. If the Modern Movement in art prepared the way for new attitudes towards 
design in …………. (broad) sense, in a much …………. (narrow) sense 
the change was due to a group of artists, architects, craftsmen, manufactur-
ers, bureaucrats and politicians in Germany. 
2. The single individual with ……….. (great) responsibility for the Werk-
bund idea was a civil servant in the Prussian Ministry of Trade, Hermann 
Muthesius. 
3. One of ………… (virulent) of rows occurred in July 1914, on the eve of 
the Werkbund’s Cologne exhibition. 
4. Industrialization had taken place much ……. (late) than it did in England. 
5. ……………. (seminal) Werkbund designs were most of all to the increas-
ing use of electricity in the home. 
6. On a far …… (small) scale, some of Behrens’s designs for household ob-
jects would set the teeth of design historians on edge were they not by him. 
Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks 
1. Decide whether the following statements are true or false according to the 
text. 
1. The Deutscher Werkbund was a sort of design pressure group that held an-
nual meetings in different German cities and formed regional Werrkbund 
associationas throughout Germany. 
2. Its declared aim was ‘to ennoble industrial labour through the co-operation 
of art, industry and handicraft, by means of education, propaganda and 
united action on relevant questions’. 

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3. The single individual with the greatest responsibility for the Werkbund 
idea was Hermann Muthesius. 
4. In creating the Werkbund, Muthesius had no associates. 
5. The Belgian architect Henri van de Velde accepted the notion of ‘art for 
art’s sake’ and denied the necessity of reconciliation with the machine. 
6. Friedlich Naumann had always been an enthusiast for the visual arts, and, 
more specifically, an advocate of the need to find new forms to suit the 
modern age. 
7. Peter Behrens was the first house-designer, responsible for the visual im-
pact made by a large industrial corporation. 

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