В книге вас ждут чудесные сказки, знакомые нам с детства, – «Кот в сапогах» (Puss in Boots) и «Красная шапочка» (Little Red Riding Hood).
Тексты сказок приведены на английском языке, сопровождаются комментариями к наиболее трудным словам и выражениям, а также упражнениями на проверку понимания прочитанного. В конце книги расположен словарь, облегчающий чтение.
Книга предназначается для тех, кто только начинает изучение английского языка (уровень 1 – Elementary).
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© Пахомова А. А., 2014
© ООО «Издательство «АСТ», 2015
Сказка, повествуя о волшебстве и чудесах, вплетенных в реальность, сопровождает нас с самого раннего детства. Захватывая наше воображение, она становится нашим наставником и проводником в запутанных лабиринтах жизни. Сказка учит нас общению с другими людьми, обращению с животными, она помогает нам отличить добро от зла, полезное от вредного, раскрывает перед нами удивительные свойства природы.
Войдя в наше детство, сказка не уходит от нас и тогда, когда мы становимся взрослыми. Читая сказки своим детям, взрослые снова и снова погружаются в сказочный мир, находя в нем столь необходимое для души отвлечение от забот, неудач и горестей, возрождение надежды и веру в счастливый конец.
Все эти замечательные особенности сказки превращают ее в уникальный текстовой материал при обучении иностранному языку. Погружаясь в текст сказки, мы, сами того не замечая, лучше усваиваем иностранные слова, а нравственно-воспитательный аспект сказки дает отличную почву для обсуждения текста произведения на занятиях в группе.
Сюжеты вошедших в предлагаемый сборник сказок хорошо известны читателю, что значительно упростит понимание текста, поэтому книга может быть рекомендована тем, кто не так давно начал изучать английский язык. Наиболее трудные для понимания слова и выражения вынесены в сноски, а словарь, помещенный в конце книги, содержит большую часть содержащихся в книге английских слов.
There was a miller whose only inheritance to his three sons was his mill, his donkey, and his cat. The division was soon made. The eldest took the mill, the second the donkey, and the youngest took the cat.
The poor young fellow was quite comfortless because he received so little. “My brothers,” said he, “may make a handsome living by joining their shares together; but, for my part, after I have eaten up my cat, and made myself a muff from his skin, I must then die of hunger.”
The cat, who heard all this, but pretended otherwise, said to him serious, “Do not be so concerned, my good master. If you will give me a bag, and have a pair of boots made for me, that I may scamper through the dirt and the brambles, then you shall see that you are not so poorly off with me as you imagine.”
The cat’s master did not believe him very much. However, he had often seen him play a great many cunning tricks to catch rats and mice,[1] such as hanging by his heels, or hiding himself in the meal, and pretending to be dead; so he did take some hope that he might give him some help in his miserable condition.[2]
After receiving what he had asked for, the cat gallantly pulled on the boots and slung the bag about his neck. Holding its drawstrings in his forepaws,[3] he went to a place where there were a lot of rabbits. He put some bran and greens into his bag, then laid down as if he were dead. He waited for some young rabbits to come and look into his bag.
Soon a rash and foolish young rabbit jumped into his bag, and the master cat immediately closed the strings, then took and killed him without pity.[4]
Proud of his prey, he went with it to the palace, and asked to speak with his majesty. He was shown upstairs into the king’s apartment,[5] and, making a low bow,[6] said to him, “Sir, I have brought you a rabbit from my noble lord,[7] the Master of Carabas” (for that was the title which the cat was pleased to give his master).
“Tell your master,” said the king, “that I thank him, and that I am very pleased with his gift.”
Another time he went and hid himself in a grain field. He again held his bag open, and when a brace of partridges[8] ran into it, he drew the strings, and caught them both. He presented these to the king, as he had done before with the rabbit. The king received the partridges with great pleasure and gave him a tip. The cat continued, from time to time[9] for two or three months, to take game[10] to his majesty from his master.
One day, when he knew for certain[11] that the king would be taking a drive along the riverside with his daughter, the most beautiful princess in the world, he said to his master, “If you will follow my advice your fortune is made. All you must do is to go and bathe yourself in the river at the place I show you, then leave the rest to me.”
The Marquis of Carabas did what the cat advised him to, without knowing why.[12] While he was bathing the king passed by in his coach, and the cat began to cry out, “Help! Help! My Lord Marquis of Carabas is going to be drowned.”
At this noise the king put his head out of the coach window and saw that it was the cat who had so often brought him such good game, so he commanded his guards to help the Marquis of Carabas. While they were drawing the poor Marquis out of the river, the cat came up to the coach and told the king that, while his master was bathing, some rogues had stolen his clothes, even though he had cried out, “Thieves! Thieves!” several times, as loud as he could.[13] In truth, the cunning cat had hidden the clothes under a large stone.
The king immediately commanded the officers of his wardrobe to run and fetch one of his best suits for the Lord Marquis of Carabas.
The king received him very courteously.[14] And, because the king’s fine clothes gave him a striking appearance (for[15] he was very handsome and well proportioned), the king’s daughter took a secret inclination to him. The Marquis of Carabas had only to look at her a couple of times and she fell head over heels in love with him.[16] The king asked him to enter the coach and join them.
The cat ran on ahead.[17] Meeting some countrymen who were mowing a meadow,[18] he said to them, “My good fellows, if you do not tell the king that the meadow you are mowing belongs to my Lord Marquis of Carabas, you shall be chopped up like mincemeat.[19]”
The king asked the mowers whose meadow it was that they were mowing.
“It belongs to my Lord Marquis of Carabas,” they answered altogether because the cat had frightened them.
“You see, sir,” said the Marquis, “this is a meadow which always yield a plentiful harvest every year.”
The master cat, still running on ahead, met with some reapers, and said to them, “My good fellows, if you do not tell the king that all this grain belongs to the Marquis of Carabas, you shall be chopped up like mincemeat.”
The king, who passed by a moment later, asked them whose grain it was that they were reaping.
“It belongs to my Lord Marquis of Carabas,” replied the reapers, which pleased both the king and the marquis. The king congratulated him for his fine harvest. The master cat continued to run ahead and said the same words to all he met. The king was surprised at the big estates of the Lord Marquis of Carabas.
The master cat came at last to a castle, the lord of which was an ogre, the richest that had ever been known.[20] All the lands which the king had just passed by belonged to this castle. The cat, who found out who this ogre was and what he could do, asked to speak with him, saying he could not pass so near his castle without having the honor of paying his respects to him.
The ogre received him as civilly as an ogre could do, and invited him to sit down. “I have heard,” said the cat, “that you are able to change yourself into any kind of creature. You can, for example, transform yourself into a lion, an elephant, or the like.”
“That is true,” answered the ogre; “and to convince you, I shall now become a lion.”
The cat was so terrified to see a lion so near him that he leaped onto the roof that was even more difficult for him, because his boots didn’t help him to walk on the tiles. However, the ogre resumed his natural form, and the cat came down, saying that he had been very frightened indeed.
“I have further been told,” said the cat, “that you can also transform yourself into the smallest of animals, for example, a rat or a mouse. But I can scarcely believe that. I think that that would be quite impossible.”
“Impossible!” cried the ogre. “You shall see!”
He immediately changed himself into a mouse and began to run about the floor. As soon as the cat saw this, he fell upon him and ate him up.
Meanwhile the king, who saw this fine castle of the ogre’s as he passed, decided to go inside. The cat, who heard the noise of his majesty’s coach running over the drawbridge, ran out and said to the king, “Your majesty is welcome to this castle of my Lord Marquis of Carabas.”
“What! My Lord Marquis,” cried the king, “and does this castle also belong to you? There can be nothing finer than this court and all the stately buildings which surround it. Let us go inside, if you don’t mind.[21]”
The marquis gave his hand to the princess, and followed the king, who went first. They passed into a spacious hall, where they found a magnificent feast, which the ogre had prepared for his friends, who were coming to visit him that very day, but dared not to enter, knowing the king was there.
His majesty was perfectly charmed with the good qualities of my Lord Marquis of Carabas, as was his daughter, who had fallen violently in love with him. Seeing the vast estate he possessed, the king said to him, after having drunk five or six glasses, “It will be your own fault, my Lord Marquis, if you do not become my son-in-law.”
The marquis, making several low bows, accepted the honor which his majesty conferred upon him,[22] and that very same day, married the princess.
The cat became a great lord, and never again ran after mice, except for entertainment.
I. Ответьте на вопросы:
1. How many sons did the miller have?
2. What did the eldest son take?
3. What did the cat ask his new master for?
4. How did the cat catch the rabbit?
5. What title did the cat give to his master?
6. Was the king pleased with the gifts?
7. Who was passing by the riverside?
8. Did the meadow belong to the Marquis of Carabas?
9. How did the ogre die?
10. Whom did the Marquis of Carabas marry?
II. Расставьте предложения в правильном порядке:
a) “Sir, I have brought you a rabbit from my noble lord, the Marquis of Carabas”.
b) He commanded his guards to help the Marquis of Carabas.
c) There can be nothing finer than this court and all the stately buildings which surround it, said the king.
d) After receiving what he had asked for, the cat gallantly pulled on the boots and slung the bag about his neck.
e) The cat became a great lord, and never again ran after mice, except for entertainment.
f) There was a miller whose only inheritance to his three sons was his mill, his donkey, and his cat.
g) The king was surprised at the big estates of the Lord Marquis of Carabas.
III. Заполните пропуски:
1. The eldest took _____________, the second _____________, and the youngest took the cat.
2. The cat continued, from time to time for two or three months, to take ________ to his majesty from his master.
3. If you will follow my ________ your fortune is made.
4. The cat ran ____________.
5. Let us go inside, if you ___________________.
6. It will be your own ________, my Lord Marquis, if you do not become my _____________.
7. The cat became a great _______, and never again ran after mice, except for _____________.
IV. Поставьте глаголы в Present Indefinite:
1. The poor young fellow was quite comfortless.
2. He went to a place where were a lot of rabbits.
3. He again held his bag open, and when a brace of partridges ran into it, he drew the strings, and caught them both.
4. The cat, who found out who this ogre was and what he could do, asked to speak with him.
5. The cat became a great lord.
V. Узнайте слова:
VI. Соотнесите английские слова с переводом:
meanwhile – окружать
possess – вина
fault – совет
fall – upon – тем – временем
surround – развлечение
entertainment – узнать
find – out – парень
fellow – владеть
for – certain – наверняка
riverside – удача
son-in-law – нападать
advice – берег – реки
fortune – зять
VII. Cкажите иначе:
1. The only inheritance of the miller to his three sons was his mill, his donkey, and his cat.
2. The king received him very courteously.
3. I can scarcely believe that.
4. Let us go inside, if you don’t mind.
5. Meanwhile the king decided to go inside.
VIII. Заполните таблицу формами неправильных глаголов:
Once upon a time[23] there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen. Her mother was fond of her; and her grandmother doted on her still more. This good woman had a little red riding hood made for her. It suited the girl so extremely well that everybody called her Little Red Riding Hood.
One day her mother made some cakes and said to her, “Go, my dear, and see how your grandmother is doing, because she has been very ill. Take her a cake, and this little pot of butter.”
Little Red Riding Hood set out immediately[24] to go to her grandmother, who lived in another village.
As she was going through the wood,[25] she met with a wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up,[26] but he dared not, because of some woodcutters working nearby in the forest.[27] He asked her where she was going. The poor child, who did not know that it was dangerous to stay and talk to a wolf, said to him, “I am going to see my grandmother and carry her a cake and a little pot of butter from my mother.”
“Does she live far off?” said the wolf.
“Oh I say,” answered Little Red Riding Hood; “it is beyond that mill you see there, at the first house in the village.”
“Well,” said the wolf, “and I’ll go and see her too. I’ll go this way and go you that, and we shall see who will be there first.”
The wolf ran as fast as he could,[28] taking the shortest path, and the little girl took a roundabout way, entertaining herself by gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little flowers.[29] It was not long before[30] the wolf arrived at the old woman’s house. He knocked at the door: tap, tap.
“Who’s there?”
“Your grandchild, Little Red Riding Hood,” replied the wolf, counterfeiting her voice; “who has brought you a cake and a little pot of butter sent you by mother.”
The good grandmother, who was in bed, because she was ill, cried out, “Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up.[31] “
The wolf pulled the bobbin, and the door opened, and then he immediately fell upon the good woman and ate her up in a moment, for it been more than three days since he had eaten.[32] He then shut the door and got into the grandmother’s bed, expecting Little Red Riding Hood, who came some time afterwards and knocked at the door: tap, tap.
“Who’s there?”
Little Red Riding Hood, hearing the big voice of the wolf, was at first afraid; but believing her grandmother had a cold and was hoarse, answered, “It is your grandchild Little Red Riding Hood, who has brought you a cake and a little pot of butter mother sends you.”
The wolf cried out to her, softening his voice as much as he could, “Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up.”
Little Red Riding Hood pulled the bobbin, and the door opened.
The wolf said to her, hiding himself under the bedclothes, “Put the cake and the little pot of butter upon the stool, and come get into bed with me.”
Little Red Riding Hood took off her clothes and got into bed. She was greatly amazed to see how her grandmother looked in her nightclothes, and said to her, “Grandmother, what big arms you have!”
“All the better to hug you with, my dear.”
“Grandmother, what big legs you have!”
“All the better to run with, my child.”
“Grandmother, what big ears you have!”
“All the better to hear with, my child.”
“Grandmother, what big eyes you have!”
“All the better to see with, my child.”
“Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!”
“All the better to eat you up with.”
And, saying these words, this wicked wolf fell upon Little Red Riding Hood, and ate her all up.
I. Расположите события по порядку:
a) “Go, my dear, and see how your grandmother is doing, because she has been very ill. Take her a cake, and this little pot of butter.”
b) “Grandmother, what big arms you have!”
c) “Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up.”
d) Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen.
e) As she was going through the wood, she met with a wolf.
f) The wolf arrived at the old woman’s house and ate her up.
g) The wicked wolf fell upon Little Red Riding Hood, and ate her all up.
h) He then shut the door and got into the grandmother’s bed, expecting Little Red Riding Hood.
i) “It is your grandchild Little Red Riding Hood, who has brought you a cake and a little pot of butter mother sends you.”
j) “All the better to hug you with, my dear.”
II. Ответьте на вопросы:
1. Who was fond of Little Red Riding Hood?
2. What was Little Red Riding Hood carrying?
3. Why didn’t the wolf eat her in the forest?
4. Where did her grandmother live?
5. What did the wolf decide to do?
6. Who came first to the grandmother?
7. What did the wolf do after he ate the old woman?
8. What did he say to Little Red Riding Hood?
9. What happened to Little Red Riding Hood in the end?
III. Какие утверждения верны?
1. Little Red Riding Hood went to her grandmother, who lived in another village.
2. She carried a cake and a little pot of honey.
3. The poor child knew that it was dangerous to stay and talk to a wolf.
4. The grandmother lived beyond the mill, at the first house in the village.
5. The wolf pulled the bobbin, and the door opened.
6. Little Red Riding Hood, hearing the big voice of the wolf, was at first afraid.
7. The wolf hid himself in the wardrobe.
8. The wolf fell upon Little Red Riding Hood and ate her all up.
IV. Поставьте глаголы в Present Indefinite, где нужно:
1. One day her mother made some cakes.
2. A wolf had a very great mind to eat her up.
3. The wolf ran as fast as he could.
4. He knocked at the door.
5. The good grandmother was in bed because she was ill.
6. The wolf pulled the bobbin and the door opened.
7. Little Red Riding Hood took off her clothes and got into bed.
8. The wolf ate up the girl.
V. Узнайте слова:
VI. Заполните пропуски:
1. This good woman had a little red riding _____________ made for her.
2. Little Red Riding Hood ____________ immediately to go to her grandmother.
3. The poor child did not know that it was ____________ to stay and talk to a wolf.
4. It is ____________ that mill you see there, at the first house in the village.
5. The little girl took a ____________ way.
6. He _______ the door and got into the grandmother’s bed.
7. Her grandmother had a _______ and was ____________.
8. The wolf said to her, hiding himself under the _____________.
VII. Соотнесите английские слова с переводом:
roundabout – закрывать
bedclothes – тропа —
shut – обнимать
carry – злой
hug – снимать —
wicked – обходной
dare – постельное – белье
beyond – нести
path – создание
eat – up – злой
pot – горшок
take – off – вдали
creature – сожрать
VIII. Выберите правильный вариант ответа:
1. Little Red Riding Hood should visit her grandmother because she…
a) had got a birthday party.
b) was ill.
c) haven’t seen her granddaughter for a long time.
d) didn’t have any food.
2. The wolf came to the grandmother’s house…
a) first.
b) second.
c) He got lost.
d) He didn’t go to the grandmother’s house.
3. The wolf hid himself…
a) under the table.
b) under the bedclothes.
c) on the roof.
d) He didn’t hide.
4. Why did everybody call the girl Little Red Riding Hood?
a) She wanted to have a little red riding hood.
b) Her mother had a little red riding hood made for her, that suited the girl extremely well.
c) She had a little red dress.
d) She liked the red colour.
5. The wolf dared not to eat the girl in the forest…
a) Because of some woodcutters working nearby in the forest.
b) Because he was afraid of her.
c) Because he wasn’t hungry.
d) Because he didn’t like the girl.
VIII. Выберите правильный вариант ответа:
able
accept
advice
afterwards adv впоследствии
again
amazed
appearance
arrive
as так как, поскольку
ask
bag
bathe
beautiful
became
belong
become
bedclothes
beyond adv вдали
bramle
bran
bring
but
butter
call
came
can
carry
castle
certain
charm
charmed
child
chop
coach
cold
come
сomfortless
command
concern
confer
continue
convince
counterfeit
country
countryman
court
courteously adv вежливо
creature
cunning
dangerous
dare
dead
decide
die
dirt
division
donkey
dote
drink
drown
drunk
eat up
eldest
enter
entertainment
estate
even
ever
everybody
expect
extremely
fall
fall upon
fault
far
feast
fellow
fetch
fine
floor
follow
food
foolish
forest
fortune
frightened
gallantly adv смело, отважно
gather
gift
give
go
grain
great
guard
handsome
hang
happen
harvest
hear
heel
hoarse
hold
honour
hope
however
hug
hunger
imagine
immediately adv немедленно, тут же
inclination
indeed
inheritance
inside
invite
jump
knock
know
laid
land
leap
leave
let
like
long
loud
love
magnificent
marry
master
meadow
meanwhile adv тем временем
mill
miller
mow
mower
muff
myself себя, меня самого
natural
nearby adv поблизости
never
nightclothes
noise
officer
often
ogre
old
one day однажды
open
otherwise adv иначе
pair
part
partridge
pass
path
pleasure
poor
possess
pot
present
pretend
prey
princess
proud
pull on
rabbit
reaper
receive
resume
riverside
rogue
roof
roundabout
rush
said
say
scamper
scarcely adv едва, почти не
see
send
sent
share
shut
since
skin
sling
soften
son-in-law
soon
spacious
speak
stay оставаться
stately adv величественный
steal
stolen past от steal
stool
still
striking
string
suit
surround
take
take off
talk
tell
terrified
think
thief
though хотя
through
tile
tip
title
told
too
took
truth
vast
voice
way
went
wicked
wood
woodcutter
yield
he had often seen him play a great many cunning tricks to catch rats and mice – он часто видел, как тот проделывал разные уловки, чтобы поймать мышей и крыс
miserable condition – жалкое положение
holding its drawstrings in his forepaws – держа шнурки в передних лапах
without pity – без сожаления
he was shown upstairs into the king’s apartment – его провели наверх в покои короля
low bow – низкий поклон
my noble lord – мой благородный лорд
a brace of partridges – пара куропаток
from time to time – время от времени
to take game – приносить добычу
for certain – наверняка
without knowing why – не зная почему
as loud as he could – так громко, как мог
the king received him very courteously – король принял его очень вежливо
for – так как
she fell head over heels in love with him – она влюбилась в него по уши
on ahead – вперед
who were mowing a meadow – которые косили луга
you shall be chopped up like mincemeat – вы будете изрублены на фарш
that had ever been known – которого когда-либо знали
if you don’t mind – если вы не возражаете
accepted the honor which his majesty conferred upon him – принял почет, которым одарил его король
once upon a time – однажды
set out immediately – немедленно отправилась
as she was going through the wood – когда она шла по лесу
who had a very great mind to eat her up – который был склонен сожрать ее
because of some woodcutters working nearby in the forest – из-за нескольких дровосеков, работавших неподалеку в лесу
as fast as he could – так быстро как он мог
entertaining herself by gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little flowers – развлекая себя собиранием орехов, бегая за бабочками и собирая букеты маленьких цветов
not long before – незадолго до
pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up – дерни за веревочку, дверь откроется
for it been more than three days since he had eaten – потому что он не ел три дня