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HOME READING
( ‘ The Picture o f Dorian Gray’ b y O scar
Wilde was firs t published in Lippincott’s
M on th ly M agazine on June 20, 1890. Later,
Wilde was asked to e dit this version, and
it was published again in A p ril 1891. The
s to ry is often in c o rre c tly called ‘ The P ortrait
o f Dorian Gray’ .)
In his London studio, artist Basil Hallward 
is finishing his latest portrait of a young man. 
Although Lord Henry asks about the young 
man’s name, Basil keeps it a secret but later 
says that the subject of the portrait is Dorian 
Gray.
Lord Henry immediately begins to offer 
Dorian a lot of money. He wants Dorian to 
sell his soul. He explains to Dorian that he 
will stay as young as he looks in the portrait 
and instead of him his image in the portrait 
will become older. Dorian agrees because 
he is afraid to be old. He wishes he could 
stay young and beautiful. Since that time the 
portrait begins to live its own life. Lord Henry 
also tells Basil that if he burns the portrait 
Dorian will be killed.
Dorian falls in love with a young actress, 
Sibyl Vane. She plays a different role at 
each night’s performance. Dorian likes her 
performance more than the actress herself. 
They want to get married. Lord Henry and Ba­
sil are very surprised. Happy Sibyl discusses 
her wedding with her family. Her mother does 
not have much money and she does not 
want her daughter to marry Dorian because 
she thinks he is poor. But Dorian is rich.
One day Dorian attends Sibyl’s perfor­
mance with Lord Henry and Basil, but the 
performance is terrible. Sibyl tells Dorian 
that she can no longer act well, because he 
has shown her a beautiful reality. Dorian is 
surprised by her poor acting. He tells her 
that he does not love her anymore, and he 
returns home.
To his surprise, the face in his portrait 
becomes very cruel. He thinks that his wish 
to stay young is coming true, so he wants 
to be good so that both he and the portrait 
can remain young. So the next day he wants 
to apologize to Sibyl and marry her after all.
However, he is too late: Sibyl dies at the 
theatre that night. Dorian first feels sad, 
but then he thinks that it is a wonderful 
entertainment and the last act of her play. 
Dorian and Lord Henry spend the evening 
at the opera.
Basil arrives and says that Dorian has a 
moral problem. But Dorian does not think 
about Sibyl or her family; he wants to talk 
only of happy things. The next day, he moves 
his portrait to the attic, to which Dorian has 
the only key.
Several years pass, and Dorian lives a life 
organised by Lord Henry. While the face in 
the portrait has turned ugly, Dorian stays 
young and beautiful. People say that Dorian 
is not a moral person, but he does not pay 
attention.
Finally, when he is thirty-eight years old, 
Dorian shows the portrait to Basil, who asks 
Dorian to try to be good again. Instead, 
Dorian kills Basil and destroys his body.
Six 
months 
la­
ter, while looking at 
the portrait, Dorian 
decides to damage 
it with the knife he 
used to kill Basil.
Soon after, Dorian’s 
servants and a po­
lice officer find an 
old, ugly man lying 
dead on the floor in 
front of a portrait of 
a young and beau­
tiful Dorian.

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U N I T 9 T h e e n v iro n m e n t
I n q u i r y q u e s t i o n :
What should we do to protect the environment?
I n q u i r y t h e m e :
To understand what each of us can do to improve 
our world_____________________________________
In t h i s u n i t y o u w i l l . . .
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listen and com plete the table
listen to the texts about modern and old
sources of energy
discuss advantages and disadvantages
read and com plete the texts with suitable
words
do the quiz
w rite tips
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listening fo r examples
interpreting results of questionnaires
giving reasons
understanding quotes
understanding main ideas of paragraphs
guessing meaning from context
C r i t i c a l t h i n k i n g :
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recalling information 
reasoning 
applying advice 
making a list 
inferring
activating prior knowledge
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