Lesson 5

Hello everyone,

today you will be working alone as I'm away at an examination. Hope you won't miss me much)))

I've looked at your blogs again and noticed not all of you were busy keeping up with the pace of the course(though many of you do!) -which is quite sad... Remember, you'll be tested on the basis of the sum of your activities!

As you are probably doing the topic "Hobbies" at your speech practice class, I've decided we can have a go with that as well. To be more precise, we'll deal with reading. I hope you like reading, don't you?

Today, you'll read extracts from a famous book The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. This is a mysterious psychological (and pretty phylosophical) story which has been filmed many times. You may like to see a trailer of one of its screen versions (the latest one as far as I know)

So, today you'll read some extracts from the story, do some vocabulary tasks ( using quizlet, which you seemed to like) and write a mini-composition with piclits (which some of you seemed to enjoy)

Task 1

Read the abridged version of the story consulting vocabulary notes (at the bottom of each page) Also, complete the vocabulary task which follows (publish answers on your blog). Hope you manage with the text which follows - enlarge the scale for your convenience and turn pages using arrows

Dorian_Grey

Task 2

Go to Quizlet (see previous lesson for a link) and create a set of 10 vocabulary cards. Use the vocabulary from bottom-page notes (see task 1) and from the vocabulary task which follows the text. There are 27 words all in all, so you have a choice! Visit each other's sets and play with them. Attach a link to your set of cards to your blog.

Task 3 (Homework)

Create a Piclits with an answer to the question (in no more than 100 words):

To what extend do you think our appearance reflects the life that we have led?

Attach your Piclits (or a link to it) to your blog.