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Warm-upWarm-up

I. Sing a Love Song

II. Take a Love Quiz

III. Oscar Wilde

IV. Do You Know?


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Beyond the Sea

Somewhere beyond the sea

Somewhere waiting for me

My lover stands on golden sands

And watches the ships that go sailing

To be continued on the next page.

I.I. Sing a Love Sing a Love SongSong


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Somewhere beyond the sea

She's there watching for me

If I could fly like birds on high

Then straight to her arms I'd go sailing

It's far beyond a star, it's near beyond the moon




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I know beyond the doubts

My heart will lead me there soon

We'll meet beyond the shore

We'll kiss just as before

Happy we'll be beyond the sea

And never again I'll go sailing

So long sailing NO more sailing

Good-bye Fare well my friend NO more sailing

So long sailing NO more sailing


The end of Sing a Love Song.


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You are walking to your love's house.

There are two roads to get there.

One is a straight path which takes you there quickly, but is very plain and boring. The

other is curvy & full of wonderful sights on the way, but

takes quite a while to reach your love's house.

WHICH PATH DO YOU CHOOSE? Short or Long?

II.II. Take a Love Take a Love QuizQuiz

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On the way, you see two rose bushes. One is full of

white roses; the other is full of red roses. You

decide to pick twenty roses for your love.

(You could pick all of the same color or half & half

or

whatever combination that suits your taste.)

WHAT COLOR COMBO DO YOU CHOOSE?




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You finally get to your love's house. You ring

the bell and a family member answers the

door. You can ask the family member to get

your love, or

you may get him/her yourself.

WHAT DO YOU DO? Ask or Get Yourself?




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Now, You go up to your love's room.

No one is there. You could leave the roses

by the windowsill or on the bed.

WHERE DO YOU PUT THE ROSES? Window or Bed?




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Later it's time for bed. You and your love go to

sleep

in separate rooms (we're very politically correct,

here).

You wake up in the morning and go to

your love's room to check up on him/her.

You enter the room:

IS HE/SHE AWAKE OR SLEEPING?




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It's time to go home now and you start to head

back.

You can take either road home now. The plain and

boring

one that gets you home faster or the curvy and

sight-filled

road that you can just take your time with.

WHICH ROAD DO YOU CHOOSE? Short or Long?




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Now analyze your answers:

1. The road represents your attitude towards

falling in love. If you chose the short one, you

fall in love quickly and easily. If you chose the

long one, you take your time and do not fall in

love that easily.




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2. The number of red roses represents how much

you expect to give in a relationship. The

number of white roses represents how much

you expect in a relationship.

So, if a person chose all red with one white

rose, he/she gives 90% in the relationship, but

expects to receive only 10% back.




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3. This question shows your attitude in handling

relationship problems. If you asked the family

member to get your love, then you are the type

who wants to avoid problems. If you went to

get your love yourself, then you are pretty

direct and solve the problem right away.




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4. The placement of the roses indicates how often

you would like to see your love. Putting the

roses on the bed means, you want to see them

a lot. If you placed the roses by the window

this means you don't mind seeing each other

once in a while.




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5. Finding your love asleep: You accept your love

the way they are.

Finding them awake means you expect them to

change for you.




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6. The short and long roads now represent

how long you could stay in love.

If you chose the short one, you fall out of

love easily. If you chose the long one,

you tend to stay in love for a long, long time.

The end of Take a Love Quiz.



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III.III. Oscar WildeOscar Wilde

I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art an

d culture of my age... The gods had given me almost ever

ything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social po

sition, brilliancy, intellectual daring; I made art a philoso

phy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men an

d the colour of things: there was nothing I said or did that

did not make people wonder...



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III.III. Oscar WildeOscar WildeI treated Art as the supreme reality, and life as a

mere mode of fiction: I awoke the imagination of

my century so that it created myth and legend

around me: I summed up all systems in a phrase,

and all existence in an epigram.

The poet’s height is several inches over six feet. His

hair is of dark brown color, and falls down upon his

shoulders. When he laughs his lips part widely and

show a shining row of upper teeth, which are

superlatively white.



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III.III. Oscar WildeOscar Wilde

The end of Oscar Wilde.

The complexion, is so utterly devoid of color that

it can only be described as resembling putty. His

eyes are blue, or a light gray, and they are bright

and quick… his fingers are long... One of the

peculiarities of his speech is that he accents

almost at regular intervals without regard to the

sense, perhaps as a result of an effort to be

rhythmic in conversation as well as in verse.


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What comes to your mind when you first read

the title?

Did you enjoy fairy tales as a child? Why or why

not?

What characteristics of fairy tales did you

find appealing?

Do you believe in perfect love? Why or why not?

IV.IV. Do You Know?Do You Know?Work in groups.

Can you describe the stories behind the pictures?



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Suggested answers

Fairy Tales

—fairies play a part

—supernatural or magical elements

—children’s stories

—veiled comments on life

IV.IV. Do You Know?Do You Know?



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Characteristics:

1) personification of birds, insects,

animals and trees

2) vivid, simple narration—typical

of the oral tradition of fairy tales

3) repetitive pattern

The end of Do You Know.

Move on to the text for more information!

IV.IV. Do You Know?Do You Know?


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