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Answer these questions in English:

What is the story about? The story is about the happy prince and his intention to help others.

Is this a sad or happy story? It is a sad story has a happy ending

How many characters are there in this story? thirteen characters 

Who is your favorite character and why?The swallow, because it could only to helping the prince and remained to his side, in spite of the fact that his friends have gone away to Egypt and that prompt the winter was coming.

Write a brief summary  (6 lines) of the following Oscar Wilde´s stories. Include one picture for each book.

1) The picture of Dorian Gray:
A young person aristocrat of ideas rupturistas for the Victorian company in which it lives, coincides with house of a friend, artist Basil Hallward, with a boy called Dorian Gray. 
The latter leaves both captivated by his beauty, his naturalness and his simplicity, for what they decide to realize a painting in which these features remain preserved forever in the time.

2) The importance of being Ernest.
Two men play at be call Ernesto, when actually his names are simple well, and look for the loves of two women obsessed for marrying an Ernesto, which takes them to multiple snarls and confusions. His friend, Algy Moncrief resorts to the strategy of changing identity when he him takes a fancy. Everything is complicated when Jack, asks for marriage a wealthy young woman called Gwendolen, who is influenced of that he is called Ernesto.

3)An ideal husband.
A man who is recognized in the company as noble, intelligent someone and with a great prospectus in the political life of the epoch. It is a question of Sir Robert Chiltern, who has shaped a family with his wife, and in addition an image that they they all admire in the circle of high company of then. The misfortune there will fall down on lord Chiltern, politician of success and man provided with all the qualities to be an ideal husband.

4)The selfish giant.
The children of the people play in the wide garden of the house of a Giant. I satiate of his voices and of his laughs, the Giant, 
a solitary and selfish being, a wall so high raises that the small ones cannot jump it.
The Giant discovers to a child, that sera his salvation and the return of the life to the garden and from the happiness to the house of the Giant. 

5) The Happy Prince
A statue that was lying in the highest of the city, which statue was admired by all, from the children up to the highest representative of the city, as the mayor. Up to a failed man, who was crying on having seen to such a happy statue and was saying, if completely happy someone exists in the world. The statue of the Happy Prince was covered by gold foils, his eyes were two sapphires, and it had a ruby in the fist of his sword. 

Write a short biography of Oscar Wilde. Include a picture.

Write a list of Oscar Wilde´s books.

Born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin, author, playwright and poet Oscar Wilde was a popular literary figure in late Victorian England, known for his brilliant wit, flamboyant style and infamous imprisonment for homosexuality. After graduating from Oxford University, he lectured as a poet, art critic and a leading proponent of the principles of aestheticism. In 1884 it married with Constance Lloyd, who him gave two children: Cyril, who was born in June, 1885, and Vyvyan, born in November, 1886. Between 1887 and 1889 it edited a feminine magazine, Woman's World, and in 1888 a book of stories published, The happy prince, whose good reception motivated the publication, in 1891, of several of his works, between them The crime of lord Arthur Saville. Wilde's success was based on the sharp and epigrammatic ingenuity that it was wasting in his works, dedicated almost always to lashing the hipocresías of his contemporary ones.He was accused of sodomy and of serious incident, and for that it was condemned to two years of hard labor. The writer met obliged to fulfill for point a sorrow. His marriage succumbed as a result of the shamelessness for Wilde's process. After the imprisonment of Wilde, Constance changed his surname and that of his children to Holland to get free of the scandal, though one never got divorced from Wilde, who also was forced to resign the native legal authority of his children. When it recovered his freedom, it changed name and surname (he adopted those of Sebastián Melmoth) and emigrated to Paris, where it remained up to his death. 

•  List of Oscar Wilde´s books:
  
  
• The devoted friend
• The birthday of the infanta
• The remarkable rocket
• The canterville ghost

The selfish giant

The happy Prince

The nightingale and the rose

The Sphinx without a secret

The artist

The doer of good

The disciple

The master

The house of judment

The teacher of wisdom

Activity V: Underline the correct verbs to describe what the characters do.(6p)
a) The Student understands / doesn´t understand the secret of love.
b) The Nightingale wants / doesn´t want to help him.
c) The other creatures in the garden know /don´t know why he is crying.
d) The Rose tree beside the sundial gives / doesn´t give the Nightingale a rose.
e) The girl accepts / doesn´t accept the rose from the Student.
f) The Student goes / doesn´t go to the Prince ´s Ball.

Activity IV: Match the sentence halves. (4p)
a) The Professor´s daughter says                     _a_ that the rose is not nice with her dress.
b) The Nightingale thinks                                __d__ that it needs blood to make a red rose. 
c) The Students decides                                   __c__ that love is silly.
d) The Rose tree beneath the window says     __b__ that love is a wonderful thing.

Activity III: Describe the following characters physically and psychologically. Include pictures.(6p)
 a) The Student:
Physically: high, dark hair
Psychologically: amorous, romantic

b) The daughter of the Professor.
Physically: Beautiful, tall
Psychologically: foolish

c) The Nightingale
Physically: Bird of color White
Psychologically: Passionate

Activity II: Explain what is happening in these scenes. (6p)


The young person student was complaining of not finding a red rose in his garden, because his dear one was demanding a red rose from him to be present at the holiday that the prince was organizing.



The nightingale supporting his chest on the thorn of the rose-bush.




  The young person delivers the rose to his dear one, to what she despises.

Activity I: Write a brief summary of "The Nightingale and the Rose". Include the following words (7p)
- And                  - Or
- So                     - Then
-After that           - Finally

A young person student was complaining of not finding a red rose in his garden, because his dear one was demanding a red rose from him to be present at the holiday that the prince was organizing. He young student was saying that if it was not taking a red rose, his dear it would not dance with him up to the dawn and would not be fixed in him. A small lizard joked and laughed on having seen it to weep for laying in the lawn. The nightingale from his nest of a tree heard and said it is here the real lover. And, suddenly it demolished and crossed the garden, saw a beautiful rose-bush and settled in a twig. He said to him to the rose-bush that should give to him a red rose and in exchange he would sing sweet songs to him, but the rose-bush answered that his roses were white, but that his brother who this close to the old clock might have. Then it demolished the nightingale to another rose-bush and said to him that it should give to him a red rose, to what he answered that his roses were yellow but that it could think in the tree of his brother that it was growing under the window of the student. So it demolished immediately the nightingale and coming it him shouted that it was giving to him a red rose, and that in exchange would sing his more sweet songs to him, East rose-bush had red roses but lamentably the winter had frozen his veins and it would not have any more roses during this year.  The nightingale I ask if there was some way of obtaining this red rose or not, and the rose-bush said to him: you must sing to the clear one of the moon with the chest rested on my thorns, and the whole night; the thorns were crossing your heart, your blood will run for my veins and this way it will form a red rose with your blood. The nightingale accepted the sacrifice. Then it flew for the garden and there vioal young woman who continued crying on the lawn. And he said to him: " Be happy; you will have your red rose. I will create it with notes of music to the moonlight and will dye her with the blood of my own heart, only I ask you to be a real lover. He young student listened and did not understand it. When the moon was lighting, the nightingale flew from his tree to the rose-bush and supported his chest on the thorns and started singing, in the highest of the rose-bush a pale rose appeared; the rose was started reddening; but it was not sufficient, the thorns had not come to the heart of the nightingale. The nightingale I become attached to the rose-bush until the thorns come to his heart and, although of the fact that his pain every time was stronger he was singing and slowly he was dying and the rose reddened. Finally, for the midday the young person opened his window and saw a red rose that in his life it had never seen, gathered her and removed it to his dear one; After that this one despised her because only it was a simple rose and did not have value, as the gift of jewels. Young he threw the rose to the soil, one returned to his house, and taking a book it put to read.