Vanessa Clark: Short Stories A2
After the test
English Network
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Library: own
Language: English
Level: A2
Reading: 151220 Sunday
Number of pages: 63
Klett-Langenscheidt, München
Type of book: stories
V úvode tejto útlej knižky píše Vanessa Clark v mene vydavateľstva Klett- Langenscheidt, že príbehy, ktoré sú v nej uvedené zodpovedajú úrovni A2. Jednotlivé príbehy sú krátke a ona nám odporúča čítať ich napríklad „cestou do práce“. Vraj nám zaberú „len pár minút“.
Slovíčka, ktoré túto úroveň presahujú, sú uvedené pod čiarou. Síce bez výslovnosti, ale je tam ich preklad do nemčiny.
Za dobrý nápad považujem skutočnosť, že po každom príbehu si človek môže prečítať pár informácií z reálií, ktoré príbeh dopĺňajú.
Kto má čas a záujem, môže si ich dokonca vypočuť na website:
www.klett-langenscheidt.de/englishnetwork
Happy reading!
Contents
1. Alone again
2. A christmas wish
3. The greetings cards
4. New horizons
5. Breaking glass
6. Scottish student
7. The top of the world
8. Three envelopes
9. New glasses
10. Supermarket manhunt
11. Two brave firemen
12. Learning to swim
13. A family problem
14. A ghost story
15. The model citizen
16. Treasure hunt
17. Which queen?
18. The porcelain baby
19. A present for Simon
20. The miser´s funeral
21. House or home?
22. Fireworks
23. Chairman of the bank
24. A worried father
25. The wedding anniversary
26. After the test
27. French dinner
28. Recycling
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26. After the test
/page 59/
„Congratulations, Miss Buckingham. I´m pleased to tell you that you´ve passed your test.“ /teší ma, že vám môžem oznámiť, že ste urobili váš test/
/page 59/
Natalie smiled in surprise /sa prekvapene usmiala/. She thought /myslela si/ that she had driven quite well during the test /že počas testu bola celkom dobrá/, but wasn´t sure if she had been good enough to pass. /ale nebola si istá, či bola dosť dobrá, aby prešla/.
/page 59/
Davie would be pleased for her. David was her driving instructor. She´d really enjoyed her lessons with him and she thought that he´d enjoyed teaching her.
/page 59/
He smiled and laughed a lot during their lessons. He was always very tolerant with her mistakes and never got angry. /nikdy nebol nahnevaný/ Natalie knew that tolerance and friendliness /vľúdnosť/ were an important part of his job, but she thought that he must be a nice person in his personal life too. And, as her mum /ako jej matka/ had said, „He´s not bad-looking /nevyzerá zle/, your instructor!“
/page 59/
The examiner gave her a pass certificate and then they both got out of the car. David was coming across the park to meet her. He could see from her smile that she had passed.
/page 59/
„Well done, Natalie! I knew you could do it! Come on, I´ll drive you home. You know it isn´t a good idea to dreve yourself home afater your test.“
/page 59/
They got into the car. „Your mum will be pleased,“ said David.
He was right.
It was mum who had paid for the lessons for Natalie´s 17th birthday. She had done overtime /robila presčasy/ at work to save the money. As a single mother, she had always found it hard /považovala za ťažké/ to pay for ´extras´ like /zaplatiť niečo extra ako/ Christmas presents and holidays, but she had always managed it. /zurechtkommen/
/page 60/
Natalie looked at David as he drove. She didn´t usually get the chance to look at him because she usually had to concentrate on the road. „Mum was right,“ she thought, „he is handsome /gut aussehend/. And funny. And charming.“ /očarujúci/
/page 60/
Natalie felt nervous. She had a question to ask David and she wasn´t sure how he would react /nebola si istá, aká by bola jeho reakcia/. But this was her last chance. There would be no more driving lessons now. „Well,“ she thought, „it´s now or never.“ /teraz, alebo nikdy/
/page 60/
„David, there´s something I want to ask you. You don´t wear a wedding ring and you´ve never said anything about a wife or girlfriend. Are you single?“
„Er, yes.“ David looked uncomfortable /unbehaglich, cítil sa nepríjemne/.
„Good.“
„Why?“ David sounded nervous /znel nervózne/
„Well, mum said I could have a party tonight if I passed my test – and I´d like to invite you.“
„Goodness, Natalie, I´ve really enjoyed teaching you and you´re a lovely girl… but I´m 39! I´m old enough to be your father!“
„Yes, exactly! I´ve got a 37-year-old motherat home who´d love to get to know you!“ /ktorá by vás rada spoznala/ 🙂
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Info
In the UK you can learn to drive from the age of 17. You can have lessons with an instructor from a driving school, or you can learn with a friend or relative. /s príbuzným/ There are two tests – first you have to pass the theory test, and then the practical driving test.
single mother – alleinerziehende Mutter
hard hier: schwer
to manage hier: zurechtkommen
chance – Gelegenheit
handsome – gut aussehend
funny – lustig
uncomfortable – unbehaglich
goodness – meine Güte
to get to know /got, got/ – kennenlernen
relative – Verwandte
funny – zábavný
well, it´s now or never – teraz, alebo nikdy
pleased – erfreut
to pass hier: bestehen
driving instructor – Fahrlehrer
to laugh – lachen
during – während
examiner – Prüfer
both – beide
to do overtime – Überstunden machen
to save – sparen
tolerance – znášanlivosť
friendliness – priateľskosť, vľúdnosť
she thought – myslela si
got away – unikol
got back – vrátil sa
got me – dal mi
got off – vystúpil
got on – nastúpil
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