Chapter 11
Words:
1) evil - зло, вред2) ugliness - уродство
3) to believe - верить, полагать
4) to laugh at smb - смеяться над кем-либо
5) to fight - драться; бороться
6) a thief - вор
7) to turn away - отворачиваться
8) excellent - отличный
9) terrible - ужасный
Geographical names:
Algeria - Алжир
Before you listen.
Match the words with their definitions. Use a dictionary if necessary.
Match the words with their definitions. Use a dictionary if necessary.
- Terrible
- Fight
- Ugly
- Excellent
- Thief
- Evil
- - a person who steals something from another person.
- - all the wicked (злые) and bad things that happen in the world.
- - very serious and unpleasant.
- - very unattractive in appearance.
- - very good indeed.
- - to hit someone because you want to hurt them.
General listening
Listen to the chapter and find 5 differences between the text and the story.
Dorian Gray became hungry for evil pleasures. He became more and more interested in the beauty of his soul. When people looked at that young and good-looking face they believed the evil stories. Nobody came to the famous dinners at his house, where the food and the music and the conversation were the best in London. But behind the locked door at the top of the house the picture of Dorian Gray grew younger and younger. Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked at his beautiful face in the picture.
He became more and more interested in the beauty of his face. When people looked at that young and good-looking face they could not believe the evil stories. And they still came to the famous dinners at his house, where the food and the music and the conversation were the best in London. But behind the locked door at the top of the house the picture of Dorian Gray grew older every year. Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked at the ugly and terrible face in the picture. #br
Detailed listening
A. Reproduce the situations in which the following words and phrases are used:
1. to be hungry for evil pleasures
2. the ugliness of the soul
3.behind the locked door
4.in the houses of fashionable people
5. women’s faces went white
6. he grew more and more afraid of the picture
B. Fill in the gaps with the prepositions where necessary.
from
of
to
with
for
in
about
at
1. He became hungry …evil pleasures.
2. He became more and more interested … the ugliness of his soul.
3. His beautiful young face laughed … him from the mirror.
4. He was seen fighting … foreign sailors in bars.
5. Dorian Gray grew more and more afraid … the picture.
6. For weeks he tried not to go near the portrait but could not stay away … it for long.
7. People still came … the famous dinner at his house. 8. After his twenty-fifth year the stories … him became worse.
2. He became more and more interested … the ugliness of his soul.
3. His beautiful young face laughed … him from the mirror.
4. He was seen fighting … foreign sailors in bars.
5. Dorian Gray grew more and more afraid … the picture.
6. For weeks he tried not to go near the portrait but could not stay away … it for long.
7. People still came … the famous dinner at his house. 8. After his twenty-fifth year the stories … him became worse.
C. Discuss the following:
1. Why didn’t time touch the face of Dorian Gray?2. Do you think it is possible to have a beautiful face and an ugly soul?
Text
The Thief of Time
And so the years passed. The time did not touch the face of Dorian Gray. That wonderful beauty, the beauty that Basil Hallward had painted, never left him. He enjoyed the life of a rich and fashionable young man. He studied art and music, and filled his house with beautiful things from every corner of the world. But his search for pleasure did not stop there. He became hungry for evil pleasures. He became more and more in love with the beauty of his face, more and more interested in the ugliness of his soul. After awhile strange stories were heard about him, stories of the secret, more dangerous life. But when people looked at that young and good-looking face they could not believe the evil stories. And they still came to the famous dinners at his house where the food and the music, and the conversation were the best in London. But behind the locked door at the top of the house the picture of Dorian Gray grew older every year. The terrible face showed the dark secrets of his life. The heavy mouth, the yellow skin, the cruel eyes, these told the real story. Again and again Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture. Then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror. After his twenty-fifth year the stories about him became worse. He was sometimes away from home for several days. He was seen fighting with foreign sailors in bars. He was friendly with thieves. And in the houses of fashionable people men sometimes turned away when he entered the room. Women’s faces sometimes went white when they heard his name. But many people only laughed at these stories. Dorian Gray was still a very rich and fashionable man, and the dinners at his house were excellent. People agreed with Lord Henry who once said in his amusing way that a good dinner was more important than a good life. As the months and years passed Dorian Gray grew more and more afraid of the picture. He both hated and loved it. And he became more and more afraid that someone would discover his secret.
For weeks he tried not to go near it but could not stay away from it for long.
Sometimes when he was staying in friends’ houses he suddenly left and hurried back to London. He wanted to be sure that the room was still locked and the picture was still safe. At one time he used to spend winters with Lord Henry in a little house in Algeries but now he no longer traveled outside England. His fear grew stronger every year. And as time passed the face in the picture grew slowly more terrible.
Follow-up
A. Unite two parts of the proverbs and choose the right translation.
A. Unite two parts of the proverbs and choose the right translation.
- Avoid evil
- Do as you
- Return good
- Two blacks
- Better suffer a great evil
- would be done
- and it will avoid you
- do not make a white
- for evil
- than do a small one
- Лучше самому пострадать, чем причинить горе другому.
- Отвечай на зло добром.
- Избегай зла и зло избежит тебя.
- Поступай так, как хочешь, чтобы с тобой поступали.
- Злом зла не поправишь.
B. Choose one of the proverbs. Use the facts from the plot of the novel to confirm it.