Anne of Green Gables. Аня из Зелёных Крыш. Адаптированная книга на английском языке.

Anne of Green Gables. Аня из Зелёных Крыш. Адаптированная книга на английском языке.

Люси Мод Монтгомери

Мэтью и Марилла ждут из приюта мальчика. А приходит девочка. Девочка Аня с рыжими волосами и веснушками, которая просит называть её Корделия, потому что так звучит благородней. У Ани поразительная способность находить неприятности – ни дня без приключений! Текст сокращен и адаптирован под уровень B1-. Подойдет для чтения, начиная с 8-го класса, а также взрослым, изучающим английский язык. В книге есть сноски с переводом слов и небольшие упражнения на повторение лексики.

Люси Мод Монтгомери

Anne of Green Gables. Аня из Зелёных Крыш. Адаптированная книга на английском языке.

Chapter 1

Matthew Cuthbert, wearing his white suit, at half past three was riding out of Avonlea. The horse wasn’t the best, so he was riding not so fast. Matthew didn’t come out of home in Green Gables very often, so this was unusual. But where was he going?

His sister Marilla sent him off to get an orphan[1 - ['?:f(?)n] – сиротский] boy.

Matthew and Marilla were a brother and a sister, they were in their fifties. Marilla was a tall and thin woman, she had dark hair with some grey parts. Matthew had grey hair and a beard[2 - [b??d] – борода]. He was afraid of women and thought they laughed[3 - [l??f] – смеяться] at him.

They thought about adopting[4 - adopt – [??d?pt] – усыновить/удочерить] a boy all winter. Matthew was not so young anymore, he couldn’t work as hard as he used to.

Marilla’s friend Mrs. Rachel told her that adopting a child is a very foolish[6 - [?fu?l??] – глупая] thing to do. Marilla wanted to bring a strange child home not knowing his parents and not knowing the boy’s personality[7 - [?p??s??n?l?ti] – характер, личность]. She also told her some stories she heard about orphan children and awful[8 - [???fl] – ужасный] things they did.

“Well, I hope everything will be all right,” said Marilla to her friend.

Exercise: What are these words?

orphan

to laugh

enough

adopt

personality

Chapter 2

Matthew Cuthbert and his slow horse were going down the road to the train station. He needed to pick a boy from there.

He came to the station but there was no train. He thought he came too early.