This term we are going to read and discuss some of the books by the greatest British authors. Many of them are fairy tales which is a very popular genre in the English literature.
We start with Oscar Wilde's fairy tales. His collection of stories for children "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" was first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The Remarkable Rocket". These tales are about such eternal things as love, fidelity and friendship.
Шановні студенти, що навчаються за індивідуальним графіком! Ці завдання є обов'язковими для опрацювання!
1. Read the story "Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde. Copy out all the unknown words into your vocabularies.
2. Here's the story read by Stephen Fry. Listen to it as you reread the story. Prepare the reading of the extract below.
"One night there flew over the city a little Swallow. His friends had gone away to Egypt six weeks before, but he had stayed behind, for he was in love with the most beautiful Reed. He had met her early in the spring as he was flying down the river after a big yellow moth, and had been so attracted by her slender waist that he had stopped to talk to her.
'Shall I love you said the Swallow', who liked to come to the point at once, and the Reed made him a low bow. So he flew round and round her, touching the water with his wings, and making silver ripples. This was his courtship, and it lasted all through the summer".
4. This cartoon is sure to touch your soul. Watch it and do the tasks in the worksheets suggested below.
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