
Comprehensive English I Unit 5 The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde Preclass Work-1
Unit 5 The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde Preclass Work-1

Comprehensive English I contents Background Information Critical Reading of the Text Stage Play(舞台剧)
contents Background Information Critical Reading of the Text Stage Play (舞台剧)

Comprehensive English I Background Information Read the text at least once before you Start this part!
❖Background Information Read the text at least once before you Start this part!

About the author Comprehensive English I The author of this article,Oscar Wilde, is a celebrated and yet contravertial figure in world literature and has been famous for his sophisticated and brilliantly witty plays.Find more information about him and his plays. His plays: His life experiences:
1. The author of this article, Oscar Wilde, is a celebrated and yet contravertial figure in world literature and has been famous for his sophisticated and brilliantly witty plays. Find more information about him and his plays. His plays: His life experiences: About the author

About the author Comprehensive English I Aestheticism(唯美主义) 2.Oscar Wilde made great contribution to the world literature by inheriting and developing aesthetic views in his literary creation. Among his works,his aesthetic views spark like the diamonds scattering on the grass. Serf the internet and try to get more information about "aestheticism"and Wilde's aesthetic views. Aestheticism: Wilde's aesthetic views:
2. Oscar Wilde made great contribution to the world literature by inheriting and developing aesthetic views in his literary creation. Among his works, his aesthetic views spark like the diamonds scattering on the grass. Serf the internet and try to get more information about “aestheticism” and Wilde’s aesthetic views. Aestheticism: Wilde’s aesthetic views: About the author Aestheticism (唯美主义)

About the author Comprehensive English I 3.The only one novel written by Oscar Wilde,The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891),is worth mentioning because it touches upon a typical Victorian subject,the divided self. Serf the internet and get a general idea about the story. The main characters: The main story told in this novel: The theme of this novel
添加文本 添加文本 添加文本 添加文本 添加文本 添加文本 添加文本 添加文本 3. The only one novel written by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), is worth mentioning because it touches upon a typical Victorian subject, the divided self. Serf the internet and get a general idea about the story. The main characters: The main story told in this novel: The theme of this novel About the author

About the author Comprehensive English I 4.This article is a fairy tale(童话故事).Stories of this kind are available in different cultures.Please share with us one of the fairy tales you know. Name of the story: Plot of the story: Theme of the story:
4. This article is a fairy tale (童话故事). Stories of this kind are available in different cultures. Please share with us one of the fairy tales you know. Name of the story: Plot of the story: Theme of the story: About the author

About the author Comprehensive English I 5.In Exe.3 on page 108 in our textbook,some typical features of fairy tales are summed up.Please read this short paragraph and summarized these featurees
5. In Exe.3 on page 108 in our textbook, some typical features of fairy tales are summed up. Please read this short paragraph and summarized these featurees. About the author

About the author Comprehensive English I Oscar Wilde's plays are mostly clever and filled with witty epigrams(警句)and paradoxes(隽语).Read the following quotations and try to put them into Chinese. 1.A little sincerity is a dangerous thing,and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. 2.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. 3.I am not young enough to know everything. 4.Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. 5.The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. 6.Young men want to be faithful and are not;old men want to be faithless and cannot. 7.Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious
❖ Oscar Wilde’s plays are mostly clever and filled with witty epigrams (警句) and paradoxes (隽语). Read the following quotations and try to put them into Chinese. About the author 1. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. 2. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. 3. I am not young enough to know everything. 4. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. 5. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. 6. Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot. 7. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious

Comprehensive English I Critical Reading of the Text Read the text once again before you start this part!
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