- •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
Selected bibliography
Holland, Vyvyan. Oscar Wilde and his world. – Repr.-London, 1977.
Hyde, Harford Montgovery. Oscar Wilde. – Baltimore (Md), 1962.
Hyde, Harford Montgovery .Oscar Wilde: the aftermath. – N.Y., Farrar, Straus & co., 1963.
Juan Arbo, Sebastian. Oscar Wilde. – Madrid, 1960.
Jullian, Philippe. Oscar Wilde. – Paris, Libr. Perron, 1967.
Laver, James. Oscar Wilde. – London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1954.
Michail, Edward Halim. Oscar Wilde. – London, Basingstoke, 1978.
Montgomery Hyde, H. Famous trials – Oscar Wilde. – Baltimore (Md), 1962.
Montgomery Hyde, H. Oscar Wilde. – London, 1976.
Nassar, Christopher S. Into the demon universe. A literary exploration of Oscar Wilde. – N.Y.-London, Yale Univ. Press, 1974.
Ojala, Aatos. Aestheticism and Oscar Wilde. – Helsinki, 1954.
Oscar Wilde. A collection of critical essays. Ed. By Richard Ellmann. – N.Y., Englewood, Prentice-Hall, cop. 1969.
Oscar Wilde. The critical heritage. Ed. By Karl Beekson. – London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970.
Pearson, Hesketh. Oscar Wilde. His life and wit. – N.Y., London, Harper, cop.1946.
Renier, Gustav Johannes. Oscar Wilde. – Edinburgh, 1933.
Show, Bernard. Memories of Oscar Wilde. – N.Y., 1918.
Shewan, Rodney. Oscar Wilde. – London, 1977.
Symon, Arthur. A study of Oscar Wilde. – London, 1930.
Winwar, Frances. Oscar Wilde and the yellow nineties. – N.Y., Harper, 1958.
Woodcock, George. The paradox of Oscar Wilde. – London-N.Y., Boardman, 1950.
Contents
Предисловие ……………………………………………………….. 3
Introduction ………………………………………………………….. 6
Assignments to the following fairy tales:
The Happy Prince …………………………………………………... 13
The Nightingale and the Rose ……………………………………… 19
The Selfish Giant …………………………………………………... 24
The Devoted Friend ………………………………………………... 29
The Remarkable Rocket …………………………………………... 36
Revision ……………………………………………………………. 43
Supplementary Reading …………………………………………….. 52
Selected Bibliography …………………………………………….. 59
11 Compare the curious thesis of Leibnitz, which seemed so scandalous to Arnauld: "The notion of each individual includes a priori all the events that will happen to him." According to this dialectical fatalism, the fact that Alexander the Great would die in Babylon is a quality of that king, like arrogance.
2 Compare the curious thesis of Leibnitz, which seemed so scandalous to Arnauld: "The notion of each individual includes a priori all the events that will happen to him." According to this dialectical fatalism, the fact that Alexander the Great would die in Babylon is a quality of that king, like arrogance.