Read carefully an extract of two versions taken from the same novel and say what differs them from each other. Pay attention to the italicized words

Look at the picture and read the statement by Ernest Rhys, a renowned English man of letters.

Discuss the following.

1Why do you think the filmmakers left the original text and plot but placed the characters in a modern and recognizable setting?

2 The speaker says that the film “has helped young people to enjoy this Shakspeare love story in a new way?” How?

3 How would you interpret the message of the film in a new modern light?

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WORDS LIKE FLOWERS, HAVE THEIR COLOURS, TOO

In your opinion, what is the concept or message of this still life? Discuss it with your partner and then with the group.

Version 1

Version 2

There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went, floating among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. In the afternoon by the shore I watched his guests swimming in the Sound, or lying in the sun on the hot sand, or water-skiing from his two motorboats.

There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like mothsamong the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.

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