To read in English, if you have just started to learn the language
Books / / December 19, 2019
1. «Charlotte's Web», E. B. White
"Charlotte's Web" is included in the curriculum of elementary grades in many English-speaking countries. This means that the vocabulary and the grammar is simple and it is perfect for learning English. And let the fact that the book is written for children, you are not off: some adults called it one of the most beloved.
Protagonist of the story - a pig Wilbur, who one day discovers that he, like other pigs on the farm, facing slaughter. Save the character of this fate trying his new girlfriend - a clever spider Charlotte. She is preparing a cunning plan to help Wilbur not only become a dish on the holiday table, but also make him famous in the whole district.
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2. «Mieko and the Fifth Treasure», Eleanor Coerr
What this book is good for beginners because it is quite a small capacity and the fact that it is designed for school-age. In addition, this product can learn a lot about Japan and its culture.
This is the story of Miyoko, schoolgirl, passionate about calligraphy. During the explosion in Nagasaki she gets injured hand and now can barely hold a brush. The girl's parents sent her to live with his grandparents, where it is safe. The new school, nasty classmates and the inability to do what art - Miyoko seems that her life is destroyed. But the meeting with the new
other helps the girl realize that the most important thing for her now - it's time and patience.To buy a book
3. «The Outsiders», S. E. Hinton
This small novel, though not for small children, but still pretty easy to understand. The author uses it in short sentences without complicated turns and simple modern vocabulary.
US, 60 years. In the center of the story - the conflict between the two gangs teens, Gryazerami and vobami. The protagonist Poniboy Curtis belongs to gryazeram, and he is confident that the rich vobam never understand children from poor neighborhoods. But another terrible run-in with them completely changes his life, and eventually the boy realizes that the gulf between the two gangs, not so much.
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4. «The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night», Haddon Mark
Narrated on behalf of 15-year-old boy, so the language in the book simple and very lively. Thanks to its simple grammar and colloquial lexicon novel is quite suitable for the role of the first book that you read in the original.
Christopher Boone, autism, one finds a dead body in the yard of a neighbor's dog, forks pierce. Despite his father's ban, the boy decides to investigate the murder and even begins write a book about it, which sets out all their thoughts. During the investigation, Christopher has to get acquainted with their neighbors and learn a lot about his family.
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5. «Coraline», Neil Gaima
Language in "Coraline" is a bit more complicated, but still it is quite easy to read, even at lower levels. There are no descriptions of the bulk, but a lot of action and dialogue. Especially the Russian reader the story is already known for the film "Coraline".
This is a story about a girl who, along with his family moved into a new house. Coraline is suffering from a lack of attention from the parentsWho are constantly busy. Soon she finds a secret door of another apartment, a hair's breadth as her own. There's even a live her other mom and dad, who want Carolina to stay with them. And they start very angry when she decides to leave.
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6. «The House On Mango Street», Sandra Cisneros
This book reading at the primary level will be a little more difficult: it found difficult words and rich descriptions. But the author does not use complex grammar and the meaning of many words can be understood intuitively. Plus, you can learn a lot about Latino life in the United States.
The novel tells the story of a Mexican teenager named Esperanza, where the family buys a house in Latin America Chicago area. At first she was very pleased the new place, but soon begins to dream of escape from there.
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7. «Thirteen Reasons Why», Jay Asher
What this book is good for beginners as well as the fact that grammar it is very simple. However, the rise of the novel is quite complex questions, so if you want to read something light and easy, this book - not the best choice.
This is the story schoolgirl Hannah Baker, who committed suicide because of bullying and betrayal. Thirteen reasons that led her to suicide, she recorded on audio. Box of records is at its doorstep her classmate Clay, who is one of the culprits of the incident. And he must pass the parcel 12 more people, one way or another involved in Hannah's death.
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8. «Peter Pan», J. M. Barrie
The story about Peter Pan is known to almost everyone - is what makes the story easy to read in the original. Although it is written for children, her love and adults around the world.
Peter Pan - the boy who refuses to grow up. And so he runs away from home. Each night Peter Darling arrives and listens to the family home, his mother tells the children bedtime stories. Once he persuaded Wendy Darling and her brothers to go with him to the island of Neverland, where children never grow. There they will meet with a variety of interesting and magical characters and fight with the evil pirates led by Captain Hook.
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9. «Bridge to Terabithia», Katherine Paterson
Despite the fact that the "Bridge to Terabithia" - a story for children, the plot it is quite tragic. Therefore, some critics say the book is rather an adult.
The protagonist, Jess Aarons ten year - old boy from a poor family, on which all bullied. One day he meets Leslie - a girl, recently settled in the neighborhood, and there is between them friendship. Together they come up with to Terabithia, mentally traveling in which they will become stronger and more confident.
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10. «The Old Man and the Sea», Ernest Hemingway
In some places, this book can be difficult to understand, but the story itself is small, and to master it, even with a dictionary can be quite fast. In addition, it's a classic, and almost all the English-speaking schools in the product is included in the curriculum.
This is a story about a Cuban fisherman Santiago, which, as everyone knows everyone in the neighborhood, no longer carries a catch. One day he decides to go further out to sea, to end the mockery of acquaintances. Santiago there on the hook suddenly come across a huge five-meter marlin, and a fisherman struggling to swim to shore, to show all the biggest catch of his life.
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11. «The Giver», Lois Lowry
If you know the time of Past Simple and Past Perfect, the grammar while reading this book, problems should arise. The novel is quite voluminous, but easy to read. But the story is so fascinating that and distracted by the dictionary is not particularly want - understanding of unfamiliar words from the context emerges.
Twelve year old boy Jonas lives in a community where every resident is strictly fulfills its role. Soon he gets his - to host memories. That is how the hero learns how people lived before: in a bright world full of feelings and emotions. The boy realizes that the life which the community lives now, wrong and unfair, and decides to return to their men memories.
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12. «Number the Stars», Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry, and in this work, written for children, uses a fairly simple language. However, if you had little interest in the theme of World War II, read a book can be complicated: not only have to deal with unfamiliar words, but also with unknown facts.
The heroine of the novel - a ten-year Anne Marie Johansen. She helps her friend and her parents saved Jews from the Holocaust and escape from occupied Copenhagen. After that Anne-Marie joined the Danish resistance that eventually manages to smuggle from Denmark to neutral Sweden more than 7000 Jews.
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13. «A Wrinkle In Time», Madeline L'engle
This book is more for those who already have some experience of reading the works of the English. It definitely will appeal to fans to write new words as you read - a huge amount in it interesting vocabulary. However, the novel yet written a fairly simple and interesting, and read in one breath.
This is a story about a girl Meg and her brother Charles - the children of famous scientists, the little family that everyone thinks a little odd. Their father was long gone, ostensibly because of a secret project. But once on their doorstep appears eccentric old lady named Mrs. What. And from it they find out that his father was lost somewhere in the universe, and you can find it with the help of a mysterious break time.
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