Английский язык и литература
Наши увлечения: шахматы, нехудожественная литература, скорочтение, стенография, мнемотехника, игра на музыкальных инструментах: гитара (классика + аккустика), клавишные, баян, аккордеон, гармонь-хромка и губные гармошки, иностранные языки (пока только английский).
В данном разделе мы размещаем наши любимые книги на английском языке и иные связанные с ним полезности (методики, любопытности...).
Зачем? - книги в интернете постоянно появляются и исчезают, а размещение книг здесь - это наш вклад в их существование; сайт - наша библиотека, нам так удобнее их систематизировать и накапливать.
(И вообще, язык противника надо знать, одним "хенде хохом" нынче не обойтись!) Итак - барабанная дробь! - тексты:
CHAPTER ONE. Early History of America
The Voyage of the Mayflower
On 6th September, 1620, a group of 102 pilgrims sailed from England to America, "the New World", on the ship the Mayflower. The pilgrims left England because they wanted religious and political freedom. The long, difficult journey across the Atlantic Ocean continued for 65 days. There were storms on the way and water entered the ship, but the pilgrims decided to continue on to the New World.
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Подробнее: All about the USA by Emily Winston (A2 Elementary)
CHAPTER ONE. This is London!
Every year, more than nine million people come from countries all over the world to visit London. They go to the theatres and museums; they look at interesting old buildings, many of them hundreds of years old; they sit or walk in the beautiful parks, or have a drink in a pub.
They go to Oxford Street to look at the shops, or to Harrods. Two million visitors go to the Tower of London. A million more go to see St Paul's Cathedral.
Yes, London is a big and beautiful city with lots to see and do.
But how did it all begin...?
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Chapter one. Goal
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world and it's a big part of life in Brazil. People here love to watch and play soccer in their free time.
In Brazil you don't need a pitch or expensive boots to play soccer. People play soccer in the street and on the beach. Children often play with no boots.
Some people think that Brazilians are good at soccer because they learn a special way to play when they are children. They learn to play a type of soccer called futsal. There are five players in each team. The ball is small, but it's full of sand so it's very heavy.
Futsal started in South America, but now it's popular in many other countries.
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CHAPTER 1.What Happened to Holly Golightly?
I sometimes visit places where I lived in the past - the houses and their neighborhoods. I like to see them again. There's a brown stone house in the East Seventies where, during the early years of the war, I had my first New York apartment. It was one room, crowded with an old red sofa and red chairs. The walls were dark and dirty from old cigarette smoke. The single window looked out onto a fire escape, a stairway that went down to the street. It wasn't a big place but it made me happy. It was my first home, and my books were there, and a box of pencils. Everything that a writer needed, I thought.
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Chapter 1. School and Football
I was born an idiot - but I'm cleverer than people think. I can think things OK, but when I have to say them or write them down, sometimes they come out all wrong. When I was born, my Mom named me Forrest. My daddy died just after I was born. He worked on the ships. One day a big box of bananas fell down on my daddy and killed him.
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(Adapted book. Pre-Intermediate level)
Chapter 1. The Beginning of the Pipeline
The large bush stood in the moonlight at the meeting place of three African countries. The man from the diamond mines had waited under the bush for nearly two hours. Suddenly, he heard the noise of a helicopter. He looked up and saw it coming towards him from the east.
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(Adapted book. Pre-Intermediate level)
‘There seem to be no interesting cases these days, Watson,’ Sherlock Holmes said to me. ‘London isn’t a very interesting place.’
‘I don’t think the people of London will agree with you,’ I answered.
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Подробнее: The Adventure of the Norwood Builder by Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapter 1. Gladys Hungerton
I often listened to Mr Hungerton. He talked to me about economics. It was very boring, but I was in love with his daughter Gladys.
One evening, I listened to him for a long time. Finally, he left. I now had a chance to speak to Gladys. She was a proud woman and she treated me as a friend.
She looked at me and said, 'You're going to propose marriage.'
'How do you know?' I replied.
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(Adapted book. Stage 2. Elementary)
Chapter 1. Tom and the Fence
"Tom! Tom!"
There was no answer.
"Where is that boy? Tom!" Aunt Polly looked under the bed but she only found the cat. "Tom!" she cried.
Then she heard a noise behind her. A small boy ran past and she stopped him with her hand.
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Chapter one
The Story of Uncle Elias
In September 1887 my wife was visiting some of her family, so I was staying with my old friend Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street. It was a windy, stormy evening, and the rain was falling heavily outside. Suddenly there was a knock at the door.
I looked at my friend in surprise. 'Who can this be?' I asked.
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CHAPTER ONE
The Old pirate at the "Admiral Benbow"
My name is Jim Hawkins and I'm going to tell you the story of Treasure Island. It began when I was a boy. My father had an inn by the sea called the "Admiral Benbow". One day an old seaman arrived with a big sea-chest. He was tall and strong.
'Bring me a glass of rum!' he said to my father. 'Are there many people here?'
My father said no.
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CHAPTER ONE
When Phileas Fogg meets Passepartout
London, 1872
Let me begin by introducing a mysterious English gentleman called Phileas Fogg.
Most people don't know very much about him, but because he does the same thing every day, some people think they know everything about him.
He is very handsome and he is a true gentleman. He is certainly rich, but no one knows how he made his money.
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Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (Adapted book. Pre-Intermediate level)
Chapter 1. A Memorandum for M
The memorandum came to M from the Head of Station S of the Secret Service. It read:
SUBJECT:
LE CHIFFRE, RUSSIA’S CHIEF AGENT IN PRANCE - A PLAN FOR HIS DESTRUCTION.
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Sam looked at his watch. He was almost there! He could see a bright shining moon out of the window. There were trees and a river. But Sam began to worry. What if this wasn't the right station? What if his uncle wasn't there to meet him? The train went slower. The train driver announced the station. This was the right place. Sam took his things and got off the train. He lived in the big and noisy London. There were always many people there. Here in the countryside it was very quiet and dark. There were no people around. Sam was completely alone. The boy was a little scared. He tried to calm himself. It was an ordinary village railway station. There was no danger. Sam just waited for his uncle with these thoughts.
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Подробнее: Adventure at Haydon Point by Elizabeth Ferretti (A2 Elementary)
Cсылка на ЛингвоЛео: https://lingualeo.com/ru/jungle/norman-whitney-the-stranger-level-2-334726?utm_action=20
Запасная ссылка: youtu.be/lb7yEwGbVHA?si=4nTbyhfWdt1byl34
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Chapter one
The Gun Club of Baltimore
In the 1860s, at the time of the American Civil War, a new club opened in the town of Baltimore in the United States. The Americans love their clubs, and they usually begin like this: one man or woman has an idea, then he or she finds a second person with that idea, too, and then a third. Soon there are five of them. So they all meet, and a new club is born!
In the Civil War, people needed new long cannons and big guns. And people across the country all wanted to make bigger and better explosives. But of course, they needed to talk about their ideas first. And this was how the Gun Club of Baltimore began.
After one month, there were 1,833 members of the club in Baltimore and 30,575 members across the country. In the club, there were young students with the latest ideas, and very old men with years of work behind them.
Of course, some members lost parts of their bodies in their daily work. Some had only one leg and some had hooks for hands. But nobody wanted to stop - they all loved making new explosives.
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Подробнее: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne (A2 Elementary)
(Суть: Нетти Сарджент — красивая молодая женщина. Она живет со своим дядей в доме с садом и полем. Это арендованный дом. Земля принадлежит сквайру. Это означает, что сквайр получит дом обратно после смерти мистера Сарджента. Чтобы избежать этого, дядя Нетти должен заплатить деньги, чтобы продлить аренду и поставить на нем имя Нетти. Молодая женщина влюблена в Джаспера Клиффа. Она хочет выйти за него замуж. Но Джаспера больше интересует ее дом. Старому мистеру Сардженту не нравится выбор Нетти. Тем не менее он хочет, чтобы его племянница была счастлива, и соглашается на их брак. Мистер Сарджент болен. Он умирает, не успев подписать документы об аренде. Нетти в отчаянии. Теперь она теряет все. Внезапно она понимает, что делать).
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The Lottery Winner by Rosemary Border (A1 Starter)
Все хотят выиграть в лотерею. Миллион фунтов, а может и пять, и десять миллионов. Было бы великолепно! Эмма Картер покупает лотерейный билет каждую неделю и аккуратно кладет его в свою сумочку. Ей 73 года и у нее не очень много денег. Она бы хотела поехать к своему сыну в Австралию, но билеты на аэроплан очень дорогие. Джейсон Уилльямс тоже покупает лотерейный билет каждую неделю. Но он не очень честный человек. Он вор. Джейсон бьет старушек на улицах, крадет их сумочки и убегает.
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Мнемотехника: как запомнить The verb to be в Past Simple
Учу английский в Lingualeo и столкнулся с тем, что нужно запомнить The verb to be в форме Past Simple.
(Картинка украдена мною с сайта Albina English). Так вот: а как запомнить, что я - was, а они - were?
Элементарно, мнемотехника Вам в помощь!
Смотрите: я, он, она, оно (всё, что единственное лицо) - ВОлоСатый, а мы, вы, они - этому ВЕРят.
Этот простейший приём позволил мне за 1,5 минуты уловить смысл правила и ни разу не ошибиться в тестах: я - WAS (ВОлоСтатый), они - were (ВЕРят) в это, ну, или мне. Вот и всё.
P.S. Что это было? - мысль вслух, простейший пример прикладной "народной" мнемотехники основанной на принципе "созвучий". То есть - не классическая образная, поэтому - не совсем правильная, но приём сработал.
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The Show Must Go On by Sue Murray (A2 Elementary)
CHAPTER ONE
"Hamlet comes to school"
On the way to school one day, Fraser said to Tom, 'Do you want to come and see Hamlet at the City Theatre on Saturday afternoon? My father is going to take me. He said you can come too.'
Tom Clark and Fraser McDonald were best friends. They loved going to the theatre to see plays. They both wanted to be actors. They went to acting lessons in the city every Monday afternoon. Fraser liked to dance too. He went to tap dancing classes every Saturday afternoon. He loved the sound his tap dancing shoes made. Tom didn't learn tap dancing. He played football for the school every Saturday.
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Подробнее: The Show Must Go On by Sue Murray (A2 Elementary)
Three men in a boat by Jerome Klapka Jerome (B1 Pre-Intermediate)
CHAPTER ONE
"Health Problems"
There were four of us - George, William Samuel Harris, myself (my friends call me J), and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room and were smoking and talking about our bad health.
We were all feeling very ill, and we were unhappy about it. Harris said he felt dizzy sometimes. George felt dizzy, too.
My big problem was my liver. I knew I had a bad liver. I had read about all the symptoms of liver disease in a book. I had every symptom that was written.
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Подробнее: Three men in a boat by Jerome Klapka Jerome (B1 Pre-Intermediate)
CHAPTER ONE
A special country
There is nowhere like Scotland.
Scotland is a country in a country. It is part of Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales), and of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland).
Scotland is in the far north-west of Europe, between the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea. It is often cold and grey, and it rains a lot in some parts of the country. But the people of Scotland love their country, and many visitors to Scotland love it too. They love the beautiful hills and mountains of the north, the sea and the 800 islands, and the six cities - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, and Stirling. The country is special and Scottish people are special too: often warm and friendly.
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The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (B1 Pre-Intermediate)
Chapter one. "Tom Canty"
Tom Canty was very poor. He and his family were paupers. There were a great many paupers in London in the year 1547. Sometimes the father of the family couldn't work, and they were paupers for that reason. But Tom Canty's father didn't want to work. He and his wife and his mother and his three children all lived in one room in an old house in the poorest part of London. The children had no beds; they slept on the floor.
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Hachiko by Nicole Irving
(Adapted book. Beginner level)
CHAPTER ONE
Puppy Days
"Come and see," the farmer called to his family. "There are eight puppies, and they're all well." His children quickly found their shoes and warm coats, and went out with him. How exciting! They ran through the cold yard to the little shed behind the house.
It was a winter night when the eight little dogs were born, and because the farmer's home was in Akita, in the north of Japan, there was a lot of snow. But the puppies were warm in the shed, next to their mother.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Duke’s Son by Arthur Conan Doyle
(Adapted book. Beginner level)
Chapter 1. Sherlock Holmes has a visitor
When visitors came to see Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street, they often did surprising things. Sometimes they put their heads in their hands and cried. Sometimes they talked and talked, and couldn’t stop. And sometimes they just sat there and didn’t say a word. But nobody was more surprising than Dr Thorneycroft Huxtable.
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