The oval portrait

The Oval Portrait

Name: Rocío G. de Pedro
Class: 4° “B”
Year: 2010
Theacher: Veronica Cordero
Subject: English
The Oval Portrait

1. Look at page 15. Describe the young woman.
Look atpage 17. Describe the man.
2. Write a summary
3. Change the title. Justify
4. Answer:
a. What happened to the man and his servant?
b. Was he ill? Why?
c. What did he see in the small room?d. Who had lived in that house?
e. Did the painter love his wife?
f. What did the painter ask her? Was she happy? Explain.
g. Why did she smile him?
h. What did the painter feel when he sawthe portrait?
i. What happened at the end?
5. “The Oval Portrait is a love story” Do you agree? Why?
6. Do you like this story? Why? Why not?

1. She was a beautiful young girl, always happy;until the day she fall in love with the painter of her portrait. Then she was always sad, jealous of her husband’s second wife: his work.
2. A man and his servant stay in an old, abandoned house for thenight.
The man, who is badly hurt stays in a curious room with a lot of different paintings and finds a book that tells their stories.
He centers his attention in a portrait of a beautiful younglady, which is so realistic that appears to be alive. While reading the story of this portrait he discovers that the beautiful young lady died under strange circumstances during the process of paintingit.
3. “The living portrait” – I think this would be an appropriate name because, in my opinion the portrait sucked the life of the young lady to get his realistic look, and so she died when it wasfinished.
4.a. The man got hurt, so the servant guided him to an old abandoned house to stay for the night.
b. No, he wasn’t ill, he was hurt.
c. He saw a lot of paintings, but only one of themcaught his attention. An oval portrait of a beautiful young woman.
d. Pedro only tells his master that the owners left in a hurry, but because of the appearance of the house we could assume they...