8. Make up a plan of this chapter and outline the events of the chapter in a nut-shell.

OSCAR WILDE. “THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY”

Task 10 Chapters 14-15.

1. SUPPLY THE CONTEXT FOR: to grow cold with ( some emotion)

to be of vital importance

to bring smb together

to pace up and down the room

to be the matter of life and death

to bring smb into the matter

not to raise a finger to do smth

not to turn a hair

to make matters worse…

2. PARAPHRASE: to be of vital importance; unadulterated country life; amateurs; to commit a crime; mediocrities; one’s short frocks; Union Jack.

3. COMMENT ON THE APHORISMS AND PARADOXES.

4. PREPARE A CHARACTER-SKETCH OF ALAN CAMPBELL.

5. SPEAK ON THE ROLE OF BARBARISMS IN THE TEXT.

6. WHAT IS CHAPTER 15 ABOUT? 1). How does the author depict the society, contemporary? Pick out the DETAILS which O.Wilde employs to characterize the people at the party. What details show, that it was an extremely tedious party? 2). Why, do you think, the author doesn’t give details about what caused coolness in Alan Campbell and Dorian’s relations? And again, why is nothing said about what made Alan take his final decision to help Dorian, though before it he was very unlikely to agree to it?

TO BE DONE IN CLASS: DETAILS – small parts which stand for the whole, a means to characterize smb. Note, e,g. in PUSHKIN’S «ЕВГЕНИЙ ОНЕГИН»

1 ГЛАВА

Вот мой ОНЕГИН на свободе

Острижен по последней моде.

Как дэнди лондонский одет

(И наконец увидел свет).

Он по-французски совершенно

Мог объясняться и писаl

Легко мазурку танцевал

И кланялся непринужденно;

Чего ж вам больше? Свет решил,

Что он умен и очень мил.

2. С своей супругою дородной

Приехал толстый Пустяков,

Скотинины - чета седая,

Уездный франтик Петушков,

Мой брат двоюродный Буянов

И отставной советник Флянов…

7. GIVE SYNONYMS FOR: ENTREAT…(plead, beseech…)

IMPUDENT (indecent, infamous, disgraceful)

8. Make up a plan of this chapter and outline the events of the chapter in a nut-shell.

OSCAR WILDE. “THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY”

Task 11 Chapters 16-17.

1. THANSLATE THE OPENING PARAGRAPH up to “He had often…”

2.GIVE THE MEANING OF : opium-dens; to be sillouetted against smth; marionettes; misshapen figure; theologians; ill-famed place; to make peace with God; hypocricy-hypocrite.

3. GIVE THE CONTEXT: to gnaw at smb.

to be better off than smb.

to be laid at one’s door (to be at one’s door)

a hope flashed across his brain

to set smb. on the wrong track

to be as bad as bad

4. COMMENT UPON:

- Passion makes one think in a circle…

- Memory, like a terrible malady, was eating his soul away.

5. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS: Did Dorian change his ideas of the beautiful? Where did he go in a hansome? Does the description of the place make contrast to the refined and exquisite things which surrounded him at the beginning of the book?

6. PICK OUT THE WORDS from the description of the place, which help to create the feeling of contempt and disgust/( COMPARISONS or SIMILES).

7. PICK OUT SYNONYMS for “smell”. Specify the meaning of each.

TO CHAPTER 17:

1. GIVE THE CONTEXT: To call a spade a spade

To be fit for smth

To stick pins into smb.

Greeek meets Greek

2. COMMENT UPON

• To be popular, one must be a mediocrity.

• Women rule the world

• Women love with their ears just as men love with their eyes.