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

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 Мезонинов. Адаптированная книга на английском

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.[5 - как раньше] A boy would be such a help. They wanted a boy of ten or eleven years old: old enough to help and young enough to teach him everything.

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. He looked around and tried to find a sign[9 - [sa?n] – знак, намёк] of any boy. However, there was a girl. She sat there waiting for something or somebody. Matthew walked past her to the officer.

“Excuse me, when is the five-thirty train going to arrive?” asked Matthew.

“The five-thirty train was here and went away half an hour ago,” the officer answered. “But there is a passenger for you from the train – a little girl.”

“But I came here for a boy,” said Matthew.

“But I came here for a boy,” said Matthew.

The officer whistled[10 - wisl [?w?sl] – свистеть]. “A mistake. Mrs. Spencer came off the train with that girl and said you and sister were adopting[11 - adopt – [??d?pt] – усыновить/удочерить] her from a children’s home.”

A girl was about eleven years old, she was wearing an ugly yellow dress and a grey hat. Under the hat she had two thick braids[12 - [bre?d] – косичка] of red hair. Her face was small and white, she also had freckles[13 - [?frekl] – веснушка]. Her eyes were green or grey in different moods[14 - [mu?d] – настроение].

Matthew came to her.

“Are you Mr. Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables?” the girl asked. “I was afraid you wouldn’t come. I imagined[15 - [??m?d??n] – воображать, представлять] all the bad things that could happen to you. I was going to climb the cherry[16 - [?t?eri] – вишня] tree and sleep there.”

Matthew took her thin[17 - [??n] – тонкий] hand. He couldn’t tell the child that there was a mistake and that he didn’t come for a girl. He decided to take her home and let Marilla tell her everything.

“I am sorry I was late,” he said shyly[18 - [??a?li] – скромно]. “Come along. The horse is over there. Give me your bag.”

“Oh, I can carry[19 - [?k?ri] – носить]