The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Oxford Bookworms 3
VOCABULARY

1. Match the words with their definitions:

to exhibit, to stare, ugly, pleasure, soul, portrait, evil, beauty,
scent, art gallery, to believe, gentleman, Lord, opium, a play,
Prince Charming, sitter, unconscious, youth, to sit, Harry, servant.
a building where people go to look at famous paintings.
Someone who works in another person’s house.
to show something to people, e.g. to put pictures in an
art gallery for people to look at (and perhaps buy).

a different form of the name Henry.

not knowing what is happening; in a kind of sleep caused

by illness or a hit on the head.
a sweet, lovely smell.
the kind of rich and good-looking man that young girls
dream about.
(for a picture) to sit or stand while an artist paints a
picture of you.
not beautiful; not pleasing to look at.
being young.

being beautiful.
(in this story) a man of good family, usually rich.
a title for a man from an old and important family.
to think that something is true or right.

a drug made from flowers that makes people sleep.

to look hard and long at something or somebody.

the part of a person that is not the body.
the feeling of being happy and doing things that you like.
a painting or picture of a person.
very, very bad.
story that people act in a theatre.
a person that an artist is painting.
1. Translate the following phrases:
• I’d like to recommend a book which....:
• The thing(s) I liked most was / were...
• The story is set in ...:
• The main characters are...:
• The book is about...:
• The book is a real page-turner:
• It’s a fast-moving plot :
• The plot has an unexpected twist:
• All in all...:
• I’d change the end of the story: