Презентация на тему по английскому языку на тему Oscar Wilde

and dramatist. He was born in Dublin in 1854.

He went to college there and then studied at Oxford, where in 1878 he won a poetry prize. In 1884 he got married, and in 1888 he wrote “The Happy Prince and Other Tales”, a book of stories for his sons. “The Canterville Ghost” was one of the stories in a book called “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories”, published in 1891.

Dorian Gray”(1890), but he is best known for his

plays. His first two plays didn’t do well, but the third, “Lady Windermere’s Fan”(1892), was funny and clever, and people loved it. His greatest play, “The Importance of Being Earnest”, appeared in 1895.

very popular today. He was a wonderful storyteller, whether

writing or speaking, and in his day he was famous for his clever and amusing conversation. He died in Paris in 1900.

Canterville Chase for 300 years, and Lord Canterville’s family

have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells the house to Mr Hiram B. Otis, who is an American ambassador. In fact, Mr and Mrs Otis and their children – Washington, pretty Virginia, and the twins, two noisy little boys – are very happy to live in a house with a ghost.

to frighten people, and the Otis family aren’t frightened

by any of his best tricks. Their hair doesn’t turn white, they don’t run away in terror, they don’t faint – they don’t even scream! And the Otis twins know more tricks than the poor ghost will ever know…