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    Activities The Happy Prince

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    The passage is a summary of Oscar Wilde's short story "The Happy Prince". It describes a swallow who stays behind in the city while his friends migrate to Egypt for winter. He falls in love with a reed but eventually grows tired of her and decides to leave for the pyramids. On his journey, he encounters the statue of the Happy Prince and notices tears falling from its eyes.

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    Activities The Happy Prince

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    The passage is a summary of Oscar Wilde's short story "The Happy Prince". It describes a swallow who stays behind in the city while his friends migrate to Egypt for winter. He falls in love with a reed but eventually grows tired of her and decides to leave for the pyramids. On his journey, he encounters the statue of the Happy Prince and notices tears falling from its eyes.

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    The passage is a summary of Oscar Wilde's short story "The Happy Prince". It describes a swallow who stays behind in the city while his friends migrate to Egypt for winter. He falls in love with a reed but eventually grows tired of her and decides to leave for the pyramids. On his journey, he encounters the statue of the Happy Prince and notices tears falling from its eyes.

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    A short story by Oscar Wilde

    1. Vocabulary
    Match words 1-8 to the pictures/definition A-H:

    1. To bow 2. A moth 3. slender 4. Reeds


    5. Ripples 6. A swallow 7. Courtship 8. To trifle

    A. B. C.

    D. v to consider not very seriously , to act frivolously, waste time

    E. F.

    G. H.
    2. Fill the gaps in the text with the correct past tenses.
    3. What do you think will happen?

    The Happy Prince


    by Oscar Wilde
    y
    ‘One night there ____________(fly) over the city a little Swallow. His friends
    ___________ (go) away to Egypt six weeks before, but he ___________(stay) behind,
    for he was in love with the most beautiful Reed. He _____________(meet) her early in
    the spring as he ___________ (fly) down the river after a big yellow moth, and
    _____________(be) so attracted by the slender waist that he ____________(stop) to
    talk to her.
    “Shall I love you?” ___________(say) the Swallow, who ____________(like) to
    come to the point at once, and the Reed _____________(make) him a low bow. So he
    _____________(fly) round and round her, touching the water with his wings, and
    making silver ripples. This was his courtship, and it ____________(last) all through the
    summer.
    “It is a ridiculous attachment:, ___________(twitter) the other Swallows; “she
    has no money, and far too many relations”; and indeed the river was quite full of Reeds.
    Then, when the autumn ____________(come) they all ___________(fly) away.
    After they ____________(go) he _____________(feel) lonely, and
    _____________(begin) to tire of his lady-love. […..]
    “Will you come away with me?” he ___________(say) finally to her; but the
    Reed ____________ (shake) her head.
    “You’ve been trifling with me,” he ____________(cry). “I am off to the
    Pyramids. Good-bye!” and he ___________(fly) away.
    All day long he flew, and at night-time he ____________(arrive) at the city.
    Then he _____________(see) the statue (The Happy Prince) on the column. […]
    “I have a golden bedroom,” he ____________(say) softly to himself as he
    ____________(look) round, and he _____________(prepare) to go to sleep; but just as
    he _______________(put) his head under his wing a large drop ___________(fall) on
    him. “What a curious thing!” he cried;” there is not a single cloud in the sky, the stars
    are quite clear and bright, and yet it is raining.”
    Then another drop ____________(fall). […]
    Before he ____________(open) his wings to fly away, a third drop
    _____________(fall), and he ____________(look) up and _____________(see) – Ah!
    what _______ he ___________(see)?’

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