- •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
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.
Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit. (47)
So, he built a high wall all around it, and put up a notice-board “Trespassers will be prosecuted”. He was a very selfish Giant. (48)
Once a beautiful flower put its head out from the grass, but when it saw the notice-board it was so sorry for the children that it slipped back into the ground again, and went off to sleep. (48)
The Snow covered up the grass with her great white cloak, and the Frost painted all the trees silver. Then they invited the North Wind to stay with them, and he came. (48-49)
The birds were flying about and twittering with delight, and the flowers were looking up through the green grass and laughing. (50)
He was so small that he could not reach up to the branches of the tree, and he was wandering all around it, crying bitterly. (50)
… I will put that poor little boy on the top of the tree, and then I will knock down the wall, and my garden shall be the children’s playground for ever and ever.” (50)
And the Giant stole up behind him and took him gently in his hand, and put him up into the tree. And the tree broke at once into blossom, and the birds came and sang on it, and the little boy stretched out his two arms and flung them round the Giant’s neck, and kissed him. (50-51)
“It is your garden now, little children”, said the Giant and he took a great axe and knocked down the wall. (51)
10) And when the children ran in that afternoon, they found the Giant lying dead under the tree, all covered with white blossoms. (52)
9. b) Study the contextual meanings of these phrasal verbs.
Make up examples of your own.
B. Comprehension Check
1. Answer the questions using the vocabulary of the tale:
1.) Why did the children like to play in the Selfish Giant's garden?
Was the garden beautiful? Can you prove it?
2.) What measures did the Giant take to prevent the children from playing in his garden?
3.) What kind of life did the Giant lead? Was he satisfied with it?
4.) How was the Giant punished for his selfishness?
5.) Why did the Spring come all over the country except the Giant's garden?
6.) The Giant was awfully sorry for what he had done, wasn't he?
7.) Why did the Giant long for his first little friend?
8.) How did the little boy change the Giant's attitude to life?
9.) What is the role of the little boy in the story?
2. Discuss the following.
1.) Draw the moral from the tale.
2.) Give the Giant's character-sketch. How does his character in the tale develop and change as the story progresses?
3.) "The children are the most beautiful flowers of all."
Do you share the Giant's point of view?
4.) Comment on the title of the story.
C. Give a summary of the tale
The Devoted Friend
A. Vocabulary and Grammar Work
1. Look up the words given below in the dictionary.
Practise their pronunciation and be ready to give
their Russian equivalents.
worth, bachelor, sweet-williams, to occur, gilly-flowers, courageous, crocuses, violets, to knock, cowslip, to be drowned, columbines, funeral, daffodils, odour, canary, flour, clergyman, essence, lantern, wheelbarrow, moor, to pour
2. Learn the following words and word-combinations
in situations from the text.
1. every now and then (53) время от времени, то и дело, изредка
2. Real friends should have everything in common. (55) У настоящих друзей все должно быть общим.
3. at least (56) по крайней мере
4. thoughtful (about others) (56) думающий, заботящийся о других
5. to be in trouble (56) быть в беде
6. to watch over smb (57) присматривать за кем-л.
7. generous, generosity (59) щедрый, щедрость
8. to set to work (60) приступить к работе
9. to be anxious to do smth (60) очень хотеть сделать что-л.
10. to flatter smb (62) льстить кому-л.
11. to take pains (to do smth) (63) прилагать усилия
12. to send smb off on errands (64) посылать кого-л. с поручениями
13. to occur to smb (64) приходить кому-л. в голову
It occurred to him that … Ему пришло в голову, что …
14. never mind (65) ничего (страшного), не беспокойтесь
15. to do without smth (65) обойтись без чего-л.
16. courageous (65) мужественный, храбрый
17. to knock at/on the door (65) постучать в дверь
18. to lose one's way (65) заблудиться
19. to be a great loss to smb (66) быть большой потерей для кого-л.
20. a confirmed bachelor (67) убежденный холостяк