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«Иркутский государственный лингвистический университет»
И.Г. Залешина
OSCAR WILDE “THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY”
Обсуждаем прочитанное Учебно-методическое пособие для занятий по домашнему чтению
Иркутск
2013
УДК 811.111-26
ББК 81.432.1-923.3
Печатается по решению редакционно-издательского совета Иркутского государственного лингвистического университета
З23 Залешина, И. Г. Oscar Wilde. “The picture of Dorian Gray”. Обсуждаем прочитанное : Учебно-методическое пособие для занятий по домашнему чтению / И. Г. Залешина. – Иркутск: ИГЛУ, 2013 г. – 23 с.
Данная методическая разработка была создана с целью помощи студентам и преподавателям, работающим по книге О. Уайльда «Портрет Дориана Грэя»:(
Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray” – Kiev Dnipro Publishers, 1978 – 321p.)
Разработка содержит систему упражнений коммуникативного характера, рассчитанную на пополнение словарного запаса студентов, а так же ряд заданий, включающих вопросы, касающиеся основных проблем романа, его художественных особенностей. В конце методической разработки преподавателям и студентам предлагается список примерных итоговых заданий исследовательского и творческого характера. Виды форм контроля выполнения данных заданий остаются полностью на усмотрение преподавателей. Задания последнего раздела полностью соответствуют программным требованиям по дисциплине «Практикум по культуре речевого общения (второй иностранный язык)» 4/5 курсы (специальность: Теория и методика преподавания иностранных языков и культур) и 6/7/8 семестры (направление: Лингвистика и межкультурная коммуникация). Творческие задания текущего контроля преподавателям необходимо составлять самостоятельно, учитывая уровень языковой подготовленности студентов конкретной группы.
УДК 811.111-26 ББК 81.432.1-923.3
©Иркутский государственный лингвистический университет. 2013
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Chapter I
Vocabulary
1.with monotonous insistence – настойчивость
2.to make the stillness more oppressive
3.some little distance away
4.to seat at one’s ease, to be/to feel at ease
5.strange conjectures – предположение, догадка
6.a smile of pleasure passed across his face
7.to look at somebody in amazement – изумление, удивление
8.it is silly of you
9.to be ever capable of any emotion
10.to put too much of oneself into something
11.to shrug one’s shoulders
12.to murmur (at, against; smth/smb)
13.an expression of perplexity came over his face – недоумение, растерянность,
смущение
14.I am all expectation – ожидание
15.I felt that I was growing pale
16.external influence– внешнее влияние…
17.to be independent by nature
18.exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows – превосходный, изысканный,
утонченный, острый (об ощущениях)
19.I struggled to the door – протиснулся
20.to get rid of something/somebody
21.to chatter about
22.we were destined to know each other
23.I like to find out people for myself
24.to be perfectly audible to everybody in the room 25.indignation/to be indignant – возмущение
26.I don’t agree with a single word you have said
27.never care for anything but your art
28.paint, draw, sketch
29.to be well-informed
30.you will bitterly reproach
31.with a self-conscious and satisfied air
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I.Describe and characterize the main personages of the novel
a.Lord Henry Wotton
b.Basil Hallward
c.Dorian Gray (Basil’s attitude towards him)
II. Are you an attentive reader?
a.What social problems are mentioned in this chapter?
b.Some interesting details in describing one’s appearance.
c.Descriptions of nature and interior.
III.Comment on the following
a.“Real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins” (p.9)
b.“The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in the world” (p.9)
c.“We shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly” (p.9)
d.“… the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. I never knows where my wife is, and my wife newer knows what I am doing” (p.10)
e.“With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stock-broker, can give a reputation for being civilized” (p.12)
f.“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the tradename of the firm.” (p.12)
g.“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects” (p.14)
h.“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world” (p.15)
Chapter II
I. Tasks and questions for discussion.
1.Summary of the chapter.
2.The way Oscar Wilde describes Dorian's appearance. Pay attention to new lexical units used in the text.
3.Describe your friend or relative using these lexical units.
4.In what way does our appearance mirror our .personality?
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II. Comment on the following.
1.”Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearance.” (p.27)
2.”Youth is the one thing worth having.”
3.”Nothing can cure the soul but the senses just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” (p.26)
4.”All influence is immoral-immoral from the scientific point of view.” (p.22) 5.”The aim of life is self-development.” (p.22)
6.”…to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
Vocabulary
1.lad = fellow, guy, boy, chap
2.with his back to them
3.to lend smb. sth
4.lifesized portrait of smb.
5.to be in one's black books
6.to keep oneself unspotted from the world
7.to worship smb.
8.to hesitate(for a moment)
9.in one of smb's sulky moods
10.to have someone to chat with
11.to be horribly dull
12.to insist on/upon sth.
13.with a single exception of oneself/ smb./ sth.
14.to pass through a similar experience
15.fascinating
16.benevolence
17.to alter
18.to disclose sth.
19.ignorant
20.the common and the vulgar
21.to be devoted to sth.
22.to pay smb. complements
23.a sin
24.a masterpiece
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Chapters I & II I. Match the following words and expressions with their synonyms or definitions
1. |
lad |
a. |
uncover / make known |
2. |
fascinating |
b. |
fellow, chap, guy |
3. |
to be (horribly) dull |
c. |
knowing little or nothing |
4. |
to hesitate |
d. |
show sign of uncertainty |
5. |
to alter |
e. |
charming / attracting |
6. |
to disclose |
f. |
monotonous/uninteresting |
7. |
ignorant |
g. |
make or become different / |
change in character, appearance
II.Describe a person
1.who is ever capable of any emotions
2.who puts too much of himself/herself into something
3.who is independent by nature
III.When do we say?
1.“a smile of pleasure passed across his face”
2.“an expression of perplexity came over his face”
3.“I felt that I was growing pale”
4.“I struggled to the door”
5.“we were destined to know each other”
IV. |
Develop the situation / Make up a short |
|
conversation |
1.to look at somebody in amazement
2.it is silly of you
3.I am all expectation
4.exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows
5.with a self-conscious and satisfied air
V. Compose sentences of your own using the following expressions
1.to get rid of something
2.to be chattered / to chatter about / to have someone to chat to about something
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3.to be well-informed
4.strange conjectures
5.to pay somebody compliments
6.to be pressing
Chapter III
I.Tasks and questions for discussion
1.What new facts about Dorian Gray have you learnt from this chapter? Tell everything you can about him.
2.Tell about further development of the characters of Basil Hallward and Lord Henry.
3.Does the author sympathize with London upper society? Give your arguments.
II.Comment on the following
1.“Examinations are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman he knows quite enough and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him” (p.36)
2.“I’m told that pork-packing is the most lucrative profession in America after politics” (p.38)
3.“They say that when Good Americans die they go to Paris. And where do bad Americans go when they die? They go to America” (p.42)
4.“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different” (p.44)
Vocabulary
1.to stroll
2.to call on somebody
3.rough-mannered
4.world – свет (общество)
5.ambassador (at Madrid)
6.capricious moment
7.dispatches
8.on succeeding – спустя; по прошествии
9.the country was going to the dogs
10.to be out of date
11.a good deal of something
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12.prejudices
13.to grumble – ворчать
14.dandy
15.to get something out of somebody
16.nowadays
17.pure family affection – семейная привязанность
18.nonsense
19.humbug – чепуха
20.knit his bushy white eyebrows – нахмурил косматые седые брови
21.to know intimately – хорошо знать
22.christening – крещение
23.an extraordinary beautiful girl
24.something of the kind
25.within a year
26.a mean dog – скаредный человек
27.used to do something – бывало…
III. Transcribe the following words.
rough |
capricious |
dispatches |
prejudices |
extraordinarily |
IV. Give the explanation of the following, try to find synonyms of these expressions
1.rough-mannered
2.country was going to the dogs
3.to be out of date
4.a good deal of something
5.a mean dog
6.to be prejudiced against smth/smb
7.capricious climate
8.extraordinarily difficult
9.dispatches from the war zone
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Chapter IV (two lessons)
I.Tasks and questions for discussion
1.Summary of the chapter.
2.What new personages are mentioned in this chapter? Give their charactersketches.
3.Further development of the main personages’ characters.
II.Comment on the following
1.“… his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time” (p.48)
2.“Even those that are born in England become foreigners after a time, don’t they? It is so clever of them, and such a compliment to art” (p.49)
3.“Man marry because they are fired; women because they are curious: both are disappointed” (p.50)
4.“Women are a decorative sex” (p.50)
5.“A “grand person” is the privilege of people who have nothing to do” (p.52)
6.“… the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people”
(p.52)
7.“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others” (p.58)
8.“… whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us”
(p.53)
III. Special attention to pp. 60-62
IV. Make up your own questions for discussion (not less than 3)
Vocabulary
1.luxurious
2.a shrill voice
3.her vague forget-me-not eyes
4.tempest
5.bargain
6.to adore
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7.to break an awkward silence
8.decent society
9.I dare say
10.ultimately
11.curiosity
12.horrid
13.idle classes of a country
14.fidelity
15.keenly
16.dreadful
17.glamour
18.obvious
19.sacred
20.furious
21.prejudices
22.fruitful results
23.slightest pang of annoyance
V. Translate into Russian pp.60-62
VI. Questions for discussion
1.What is the key problem of the extract? (pp.60-62)
2.Whom has Lord Henry chosen as an object of his investigations and why?
3.What is the goal of all Lord Henry's experiments?
4.What idea do you back and why?
a.Art influences our life
b.Life itself is art
5.Body and soul. Are they always in harmony? Do you know other literary works devoted to this problem?
Chapter V
I.Tasks
1.Summary of the chapter;
2.Retell the chapter as if you are Dorian Gray;
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