- •Оскар уайльд «счастливый принц и другие сказки»
- •Предисловие
- •Introduction
- •I. Read the text:
- •Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales
- •II. Practise the pronunciation of the words given below:
- •III. Give Russian equivalents:
- •IV. Give English equivalents:
- •V. Translate the sentences into Russian. Make up your own examples with the italicized words and word-combinations.
- •VI. Fill in the gaps with appropriate prepositions:
- •VII. Agree or disagree with the following statements. Develop the idea.
- •VIII. Relate the main facts of Oscar Wilde’s life and his creative activity using the words listed in exercises III and IV.
- •2. Learn the following words and word-combinations
- •In situations from the text.
- •3. Find English equivalents of the following words and word-combinations. Make up your own sentences with them based on the story.
- •5. Translate the following passages into Russian:
- •6. These are the paraphrased variants of some sentences from the text. Look through the text to find the original sentences.
- •7. Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions and adverbs.
- •2. Answer the questions using the vocabulary of the tale:
- •3. Find English equivalents of the following words and word-combinations. Make up your own sentences with them based on the story.
- •4. Use the verbs in brackets in the Past Indefinite Tense.
- •5. Translate the following passages into Russian:
- •6. Arrange the words in the following sentences
- •In proper order.
- •7. Fill in the blanks with the words given below.
- •3. Find English equivalents of the following words and word-combinations. Make up your own sentences with them based on the story.
- •4. Insert articles where necessary.
- •5. Translate the following passages into Russian:
- •6. Are the sentences grammatically correct? Find the mistakes and comment on your answer.
- •7. Guess the words by their definitions.
- •8. Complete the following sentences:
- •9. A) Read the following extracts paying attention to the use of phrasal verbs. Look them up in a dictionary and translate the sentences into Russian.
- •3. Find English equivalents of the following words and word-combinations. Make up your own sentences with them based on the story.
- •4. Find in the text 10 sentences containing would
- •5. Translate the following passages into Russian:
- •3. Find English equivalents of the following words and word-combinations. Make up your own sentences with them based on the story.
- •4. Fill in the missing reflexive pronouns.
- •5. Translate the following passages into Russian:
- •6. Complete the sentences using these pronouns: each other, other or others.
- •7. Insert the correct prepositions.
- •8. Supply the missing words.
- •9. A) Read the following extracts paying attention to the use of phrasal verbs. Look them up in a dictionary and translate the sentences into Russian.
- •2. Discuss the following: a) Agree or disagree with the statements. Prove your answer.
- •B) Give the Remarkable Rocket's character-sketch. C. Give a summary of the tale revision
- •I. Pronounce the words:
- •II. Give Russian equivalents:
- •III. Give English equivalents:
- •V. Relate the main facts of Oscar Wilde’s life.
- •VI. Why are Wilde’s fairy tales so much admired by both children and adults? Which tale is your favourite one? Why?
- •VII. Answer the questions using the vocabulary of the tales:
- •A) There are a lot of witty paradoxes in Oscar Wilde’s tales. They are used to show the contradictions of life. Read the following paradoxical utterances and translate them.
- •X. Render into English:
- •Supplementary reading About Oscar Wilde
- •Preface to
- •Into spring blossoms white and blue!
- •Selected bibliography
- •Contents
IV. Give English equivalents:
1) ведущий хирург
окончить (высшее учебное заведение)
в раннем возрасте
апостол нового культа
павлиньи перья
подсолнухи
читать лекции по философии эстетики
пользоваться успехом у публики
разделять идеи (взгляды)
10) сборник коротких рассказов
11) амбициозный (претенциозный)
12) указывать, отмечать, обращать ч-л. внимание на ч-л.
13) неотразимый личный шарм
14) презрение к ч-л./к.-л.
15) предрассудки
16) остроумный парадокс
17) дальний, далекий, отдаленный
18) отвергать, отклонять, не признавать
V. Translate the sentences into Russian. Make up your own examples with the italicized words and word-combinations.
Oscar Wilde’s mother was widely known as an Irish national poetess and the presiding genius of a famous literary salon.
His academic career at Oxford was remarkable for he obtained the double distinction of a "First" in "Classical Moderations" and "Literae Humaniores".
The new ideas in particular those of aesthetic cult with its supreme dominance of Art and Beauty over other values of life began to exercise the younger minds.
He had been invited to America as a figure of fun; he came away with the reputation of a man of cultivation, taste, imagination, education and refinement.
Though many of his short stories recalled the work of Flaubert, Рое, Hans Andersen, they have their own individuality, their own flavour.
Nevertheless O.Wilde gave the old story a new twist, and his original treatment of it rescued it from any charge of plagiarism.
And yet not only his enemies were beginning to feel uneasy at the spectacle of his triumph.
The dark and scandalous side of O. Wilde's life can't shadow his distinguished work as a playwright, a story teller, an essayist which earned him success in his lifetime and continues to delight readers and theatrical audiences all over the globe.
Oscar Wilde’s sparkling comedies of fashionable life reveal the selfishness, vanity and corruption of English Higher Society in a playful manner.
10)Wilde also wrote poems, essays, reviews, political tracts, letters on every subject he considered worthy of attention – history, drama, painting and others – some of them serious, some satirical.
11) The Happy Prince and other Tales (1888) is a collection of witty fairy tales marking the beginning of Oscar Wilde’s writing.
12) In his fairy-tales Oscar Wilde admires unselfishness, kindness and generosity, he shows deep sympathy for the poor and despises egoism and greed.
VI. Fill in the gaps with appropriate prepositions:
1) Oscar graduated … Trinity College … Dublin … 1873 and passed … Magdalen College … Oxford.
2) Even … his early age he was a man … exceptionally wide culture.
3) … 1882 Oscar Wilde went … America to lecture … his aesthetic philosophy.
4) He came … … the reputation … a man … cultivation, taste, imagination, education and refinement.
5) … England his Poems were not very successful … the public.
6) He tried his hand … journalism.
7) The critics pointed … that the theme had been treated before … Balzac, Poe and Stevenson.
8) Nevertheless, O. Wilde gave the old story a new twist, and his original treatment … it rescued it … any charge … plagiarism.
9) His extraordinary powers … conversation, his almost irresistible personal charm carried him … circles which were prejudiced … him.
10) Not only his enemies were beginning to feel uneasy … the spectacle … his triumph.
11) There seemed to be a new insolence … his contempt … current standards and prejudices.
12) … 1895 he was accused … male prostitution and sentenced … two years’ imprisonment.