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The Love letter.

Once there was a boy who loved a girl very much. The girl's father, however, did not like the boy and did not want their love to grow. The boy wanted to write the girl a love letter, but he was sure that the girl's father would read it first. At last he wrote this letter to the girl.

The great love I said I have for you

is gone, and I find my dislike for you

increases every day. When I see you,

I do not even like the way you look;

the one thing I want to do is to

look the other way. I never wanted to

marry you. Our last conversation

was very dull and in no way has

made me anxious to see you again.

You think only of yourself.

If we were married, I know that I would find

life very difficult, and I would have no

pleasure in living with you. I have a heart

to give, but it is not a heart

I want to give to you. No one is more

demanding or selfish than you, and less

able to care for me and be of help to me.

I sincerely want you to understand that

I speak the truth. You will do me a favor

if you consider this the end. Do not try

to answer this. Your letters are full of

things that do not interest me. You have no

true concern for me. Good-bye! Believe me,

I do not care for you. Please do not think

I am still your loving friend.

The girl's father read the letter. He was pleased, and then gave the letter to his daughter.

The girl read the letter and was very happy. The boy still loved her!

Do you know why she was pleased? She and the boy had a secret way of writing to each other. She read only the first line of the letter, and then the third line, and then the fifth line, and so on, to the end of the letter.

Questions on the Reading.

Did you think this was a love letter when you read it the first time?

Who read the letter first? Do you think he was pleased?

Why was the girl happy when she read the letter?

Do you think the father knew about their secret way of writing?

Do you think this secret way of writing is a good one?

Would you like to use this brilliant secret? Why?

Can you read the LOVE lines the girl was happy to read?

Remember love stories that shook our hearts (Руслан и Людмила, Отелло и Дездемона, Ромео и Джульетта и др.) Were they all happy? Why?

Did you enjoy reading the letter? Why?

Цитаты знаменитостей по теме.

(как темы для устных/письменных высказываний)

Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived. Agatha Christie

(Тот, кто никогда по-настоящему не любил, никогда по-настоящему не жил. Агата Кристи)

It is better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all. Alfred Tennyson

(Лучше любить и потерять любовь, чем вообще никогда не любить. Альфред Теннисон, лорд, английский поэт)

They sin who tell us love can die. R.Southey

(Тот совершает грех, кто говорит, что любовь может умереть. Роберт Саути, английский писатель и поэт)

The course of true love never did run smooth. Proverb

(Путь истинной любви никогда не бывал гладким. Пословица)

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THE LOVE LETTER

Once there was a boy who loved a girl very much. The girl's father, however, did not like the boy and did not want their love to grow. The boy wanted to write the girl a love letter, but he was sure that the girl's father would read it first. At last he wrote this letter to the girl.

The great love I said I have for you

is gone, and I find my dislike for you

increases every day. When I see you,

I do not even like the way you look;

the one thing I want to do is to

look the other way. I never wanted to

marry you. Our last conversation

was very dull and in no way has

made me anxious to see you again.

You think only of yourself.

If we were married, I know that I would find

life very difficult, and I would have no

pleasure in living with you. I have a heart

to give, but it is not a heart

I want to give to you. No one is more

demanding or selfish than you, and less

able to care for me and be of help to me.

I sincerely want you to understand that

I speak the truth. You will do me a favor

if you consider this the end. Do not try

to answer this. Your letters are full of

things that do not interest me. You have no

true concern for me. Good-bye! Believe me,

I do not care for you. Please do not think

I am still your loving friend.

The girl's father read the letter. He was pleased, and then gave the letter to his daughter.

The girl read the letter and was very happy. The boy still loved her!

Do you know why she was pleased? She and the boy had a secret way of writing to each other. She read only the first line of the letter, and then the third line, and then the fifth line, and so on, to the end of the letter.

Questions on the Reading

1. Did you think this was a love letter when you read it the first time?

2. Who read the letter first? Do you think he was pleased?

3. Why was the girl happy when she read the letter?

4. Do you think the father knew about their secret way of writing?

5. Do you think this secret way of writing is a good one?

6. Would you like to use this brilliant secret? Why?

7. Can you read the LOVE lines the girl was happy to read?

8. Remember love stories that shook our hearts (Руслан и Людмила, Отелло и Дездемона, Ромео и Джульетта и др.) Were they all happy? Why?

9. Did you enjoy reading the letter? Why?

Цитаты знаменитостей по теме

(как темы для устных/письменных высказываний)

Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived. Agatha Christie

(Тот, кто никогда по-настоящему не любил, никогда по-настоящему не жил. Агата Кристи)

It is better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all. Alfred Tennyson

(Лучше любить и потерять любовь, чем вообще никогда не любить. Альфред Теннисон, лорд, английский поэт)

They sin who tell us love can die. R .Southey

(Тот совершает грех, кто говорит, что любовь может умереть. Роберт Саути, английский писатель и поэт)

The course of true love never did run smooth. Proverb

(Путь истинной любви никогда не бывал гладким. Пословица)

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Alone

By Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood’s hour I have not been

As others were; I have not seen

As others saw; I could not bring

My passion from a common spring.

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow; I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone;

And all I loved, I loved alone.

Will You Come?

By Edward Thomas

Will you come?

Will you come?

Will you ride so late at my side?

O, will you come?

Will you come?

Will you come if the night has a moon

Full and bright?

O, will you come?

Would you come?

Would you come if the noon gave light,

not the moon?

Beautiful, woud you come?

Would you have come?

Would you have come without scorning,

had it been still morning?

Beloved, would you have come?

If you come,

haste and come.

Owls have cried; It grows dark to ride.

Beloved, beautiful, come!