Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW Part One ENTER

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEWWarm-up I. Sing a Love Song Sing a Love Song II. Take a Love Quiz Take a Love Quiz III. Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde IV. Do You Know? Do You Know?

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 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.Sing a Love Song

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 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 To be continued on the next page. I.Sing a Love Song

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 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 I.Sing a Love Song The end of Sing a Love Song.

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 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.Take a Love Quiz To be continued on the next page. W

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 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? To be continued on the next page. II.Take a Love Quiz

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 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? To be continued on the next page. II.Take a Love Quiz

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 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? II.Take a Love Quiz To be continued on the next page.

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 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? To be continued on the next page. II.Take a Love Quiz

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 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? To be continued on the next page. II.Take a Love Quiz

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 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. To be continued on the next page. II.Take a Love Quiz

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 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. To be continued on the next page. II.Take a Love Quiz

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 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. To be continued on the next page. II.Take a Love Quiz

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 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. To be continued on the next page. II.Take a Love Quiz

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 5. Finding your love asleep: You accept your love the way they are. Finding them awake means you expect them to change for you. To be continued on the next page. II.Take a Love Quiz

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 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. II.Take a Love Quiz

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW III.Oscar Wilde I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age... The gods had given me almost everything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring; I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colour of things: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder... To be continued on the next page.

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW III.Oscar Wilde I 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. To be continued on the next page.

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW III.Oscar 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.

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 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.Do You Know? Work in groups. Can you describe the stories behind the pictures? To be continued on the next page.

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW Suggested answers Fairy Tales —fairies play a part —supernatural or magical elements —children’s stories —veiled comments on life IV.Do You Know? To be continued on the next page.

Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose BTLEW 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.Do You Know?

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