Pinocchio: Englisch Lektüre A2 - B2 E-Book

Carlo Collodi

• Herausgeber: adlima GmbH
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

Englisch Lernen mit klassischen Werken. Die Bücher dieser Reihe eignen sich für Jugendliche und Erwachsene, die mit klassischen Werken ihre Lesefähigkeit verbessern wollen. Englisch Niveaus A2 bis B2. Durchgehend in englischer Sprache. "Pinocchio" ist ein klassisches Kinderbuch, geschrieben von Carlo Collodi, das erstmals 1883 in Italien veröffentlicht worden ist. Die Geschichte folgt den Abenteuern einer lebendigen Holzpuppe namens Pinocchio, die von einem alten Schreiner geschnitzt worden ist. Pinocchio träumt davon, ein echter Junge zu werden, aber sein ungestümer Charakter und seine Neigung zu Lügen und Streichen bringen ihn immer wieder in Schwierigkeiten. Auf seiner Reise trifft Pinocchio auf eine Vielzahl von Figuren, darunter die sprechende Grille, die ihm als Gewissen dienen soll, den listigen Fuchs und die betrügerische Katze, die ihn immer wieder in die Irre führen, sowie eine Fee, die ihm verspricht, ihn in einen echten Jungen zu verwandeln, wenn er beweist, dass er mutig, ehrlich und selbstlos sein kann. "Pinocchio" ist eine tiefgründige Erzählung über Wachstum und Erlösung, die Kinder und Erwachsene gleichermaßen anspricht und unterhält. Die Geschichte ist reich an Humor und Fantasie und bleibt ein zeitloser Schatz der Kinderliteratur.

Leseprobe

Carlo Collodi

Pinocchio: Englisch Lektüre A2 - B2

Englisch Lernen mit klassischen Werken. Die Bücher dieser Reihe eignen sich für Jugendliche und Erwachsene, die mit klassischen Werken ihre Lesefähigkeit verbessern wollen. Englisch Niveaus A2 bis B2. Durchgehend in englischer Sprache.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A piece of wood that can talk, laugh and cry

Geppetto receives the piece of wood

Pinocchio is born

Pinocchio and the talking cricket

A pancake that flies away

Pinocchio goes begging

Pinocchio's breakfast

Pinocchio gets new feet

Pinocchio goes to the puppet theater

Pinocchio and his wooden brothers

Mangiafuoco has to sneeze

Pinocchio receives five gold coins

At the “Glued Bird” inn

Pinocchio falls into the hands of the robbers

The “Great Oak”

The girl with the golden hair

The gravediggers, the lies and the long nose

On the miracle field

Dummersheim

The giant snake

The marten trap

Loyalty is rewarded

From the white marble stone to the roaring sea

Hardworking City

Pinocchio wants to change

Pinocchio at school

The scuffle by the sea

The green fisherman

Bollo's gratitude

Night-time return and the cozy snail shell

Friend Röhrle

Lazyland – a beautiful country

Two new donkeys

Pinocchio the donkey in the circus

The fish eat the donkey

The great shark

A happy reunion

The good dolphin and the two punished robbers

New life

The end of the puppet

Impressum

A piece of wood that can talk, laugh and cry

A piece of wood lies in the forest with many other pieces. A man comes, loads them onto his wagon, and drives to Antonio, the carpenter. The wood is sawn and split to warm the stove in winter. Antonio notices a piece of wood that is beautifully straight. He puts it in a corner and thinks, “It's a shame to burn it.”

Antonio is known as Master Plum because the tip of his nose is as blue as a ripe plum.

One day, Master Plum wants to build a table. He discovers the piece of wood and thinks, “This will be the leg of the table.” He takes the hatchet to cut off the bark. With the first blow, he suddenly hears a voice, “Don't hit so hard!”

Master Plum is startled and stands frozen. He searches the workshop, but no one is in sight. What is that? With a laugh, the carpenter scratches behind his ears and says, “Clearly! The voice was just my imagination. Get back to work!”

He takes the hatchet firmly in his hand and strikes the wood even harder. The sharp edge penetrates deeply, “Ow! That hurts!” complains the same voice.

Now Master Plum freezes. His eyes bulge, his mouth is open.

After a while, he finds his voice again, but he is still shaking and asks, stuttering, “Where does this whining voice come from? The wood can't cry like a child! Impossible! Maybe someone is hiding in the wood? All right, I will make it easier for you. I'll help you out right away.”

He grabs the wood and throws it hard against the workshop wall.

Then he stands still, listens and listens. Two, three, five minutes pass. Everything remains quiet, nothing moves.

“This is laughable!” says the carpenter, running his hand through his hair. “How stupid I am! The voice was just a figment of my imagination. Now I have to work!”

Nevertheless, he is still afraid. He begins to sing a song to give himself courage.

He no longer dares to work the wood with the hatchet. He stretches the wood on the workbench, takes a long plane and lets it glide over the rough wood.

Suddenly he hears giggling and laughter in the workshop, “Stop it! I'm so ticklish!” And Master Plum loses his courage. Struck as if by lightning, he sinks to the ground. When he comes to, he finds that he is sitting on the floor.

Geppetto receives the piece of wood

There is a knock at the door.

“Come in!” calls the carpenter, who is still sitting on the floor.

A funny old man comes in through the door. It's Seppel, also known as ‘Geppetto’. He is a skilled woodcarver. However, the bad boys in the neighborhood call him ‘Gälfink’ because of his yellow wig.

Geppetto has a bad temper. Calling him “Gälfink” makes him furious.

“Good morning, Master Antonio!” Geppetto greets him politely. “What are you doing on the floor?”

“I want to teach the ants the ABCs.”

“A new profession! Good luck!”

“What brings you to me today, Geppetto?”

“I have an idea. I want to carve a wooden puppet. He should learn fencing and tightrope walking.

Then I'll travel the world with him and make a lot of money. What do you think of that, Antonio?”

“Very good, Gälfink!” squeals a fine voice.

Geppetto hears ‘Gälfink’, turns as red as a raspberry with rage, and angrily asks the carpenter, “Why do you call me that?”

“Who?”

“You! You called me Gälfink!”

“But I didn't say that!”

“Who then? Maybe I did?”

“No!”

“Yes!”

The argument becomes increasingly heated. They grab each other's smocks, one strikes, the other bites. Now they wrestle on the floor and then let go of each other. Both stand there like victors.

Geppetto crumples Antonio's pointed cap, and Antonio swings the “Gälfinken's” wig.

For a while they look at each other triumphantly. Then the carpenter says, “Give me back my cap!”

“If you give me my wig.”

Laughing, they exchange their loot, shake hands, and promise never to quarrel again and to remain good friends.

“Now, dear Geppetto,” says the carpenter, “how can I help you?”

“I'm looking for a piece of wood for my puppet. Do you have a suitable one?”

Antonio takes the piece of wood from the workbench that scared him so much and wants to give it to Geppetto.

Wupp!! The piece of wood jumps out of Antonio's hand and hits Geppetto hard on the shins.

“Ow!! So, Antonio! Is that friendship? You almost took my legs off! Ow!”

“I didn't do it. Believe me.”

“Then it was me again!”

“It was the log.”

“Don't talk nonsense! You hit me in the legs!”

“It's not true!”

“Liar!”

“Geppetto, no nonsense! Otherwise, I will call you Gälfink.”

“Donkey!”

“Gälfink!”

“Ox!”

“Gälfink!”

“Stupid ape!”

“Gälfink!”

Three times “Gälfink” is too much for Geppetto. He loses his temper, rushes at the carpenter, and the fight gets even fiercer. In the end, carpenter Antonio has two red scratches more on his blue nose, and Geppetto is missing two buttons on his vest. The score is even. They shake hands and promise each other eternal friendship again.

Geppetto takes his wooden block and thanks Antonio and limps cheerfully home.

Pinocchio is born

Geppetto's entire apartment is a small room on the ground floor. It has only one window. There is a rickety chair, an old table, and a bad bed in it. In the corner stands a small iron stove, and the water in the pot on the stove is steaming.

When Geppetto comes home, he takes his tools and begins carving the puppet.

He is only worried about one thing. He wonders what name to give the puppet. Suddenly he jumps up, claps his hand to his forehead and says, “Yes! He shall be called Pinocchio. That's a beautiful name and it brings good luck.”

After Geppetto has found the name, he works with redoubled zeal. You can already recognize the hair, the forehead, and the eyes of the puppet. Suddenly Geppetto's hand trembles. The wooden eyes roll like glass balls and stare at him. Geppetto gets angry and says, “Don't look at me like that, wooden eyes!”

But the eyes pay no attention to Geppetto's words. Annoyed, he continues to work, shaping the nose.

A new surprise - the wood grows and grows and soon there is a long, pointed nose. Despite all his efforts, the nose gets longer and longer. Geppetto can't change the nose. Patiently, he continues to work, shaping the mouth. The puppet laughs and makes faces.

“Stop laughing!” orders Geppetto, but it doesn't help.“Stop it, I'm telling you for the last time!” The puppet stops laughing but sticks out his tongue.

Geppetto doesn't want to be disturbed and continues to work quietly. The chin, neck, shoulders, body, arms, and hands of the puppet are turning out well. Geppetto is carving the feet when he notices that someone is pulling the wig off his head. He looks up and sees the wig in the hand of the puppet.

“Pinocchio, put the wig back on me immediately!”

The puppet has already pulled the yellow wig over his head and is so deep in it that he almost suffocates. This is how the puppet spoils the good mood. He stops working and says, “Why am I being punished like this? What is going to happen?” He's a rascal even before he's finished. I'm afraid he'll be a mischief-maker.”

Tears well up in the old man's eyes. He would like to stop, but then he finishes making the puppet after all.

Geppetto carves delicate legs and feet. He is pleased with his artistry when suddenly he gets a kick on the tip of his nose.

“I don't deserve any better,” he mutters. “I should have thought of all this earlier!”

The work is finished. Geppetto puts the wooden Pinocchio on the floor so that he can learn to walk.

The puppet has stiff limbs and can't walk yet. Father Geppetto leads him by the hand and shows him how to put one foot in front of the other.

Soon, Pinocchio can walk around the room by himself. Suddenly, he notices the door, jumps out into the street, and runs away. Geppetto runs after him but can't catch up with him. The puppet jumps like a rabbit and clatters loudly on the pavement.

“Stop him! Seize him!” cries Geppetto. But the people on the street stop in amazement when they see the wooden puppet. Then they start laughing.

Luckily, a policeman comes along. He thinks a horse has bolted and stands in the street. Pinocchio sees the obstacle and runs towards it. He bends down and tries to slip between the policeman's legs. But he miscalculated. The policeman didn't move. With a deft hand movement, he caught the puppet.

The policeman immediately gave the puppet to his father. Geppetto wanted to give him a slap in the face, but he couldn't. Why not? Geppetto didn't carve any ears on the puppet.

The master takes the puppet by the scruff of the neck and pushes him away. Pinocchio struggles, but it's no use. Geppetto says, “Go home! Look, we'll sort this out at home.”

Pinocchio doesn't want to go any further and lies down on the ground. Soon, a crowd of people are standing around them. They say, “Poor Pinocchio, you're right not to want to go home.

Geppetto is unkind and wants to hit you.”

Others make fun of him and say, “Geppetto! He looks nice, but he's a brute. The little boy is in bad hands with him.”

The crowd is growing bigger and louder. The policeman returns, arrests Geppetto, and takes him to prison.

The unfortunate Geppetto cries silently and says, “I tried hard to make a good puppet. If only I had thought of everything in advance! It is my own fault I'm so unlucky.”

Poor Geppetto, this is just the beginning. You will experience many more sorrows and sufferings.

Pinocchio and the talking cricket

Geppetto is innocently put in prison, while Pinocchio remains free.

Just imagine how Pinocchio runs away! He doesn't want to see anyone anymore, jumps over thorny hedges and brambles, leaps over holes and moats like a deer, and runs around like a hunted hare. Finally, he comes home. The door is open. He goes in, slams the door and sits down on the floor. He breathes in and out deeply and says contentedly, “Aaah!”

But the calm doesn't last long. There's a noise in the room: crack-crack-crack! Pinocchio looks around anxiously and asks, “What is that? Who's here?”

“Me!” stuttered a delicate voice. Pinocchio turns around and sees a black cricket climbing up the wall.

“Who are you?”

“I'm the Talking Cricket, and I've lived here for a hundred years.”

Pinocchio says rudely, “Please go away and don't let me ask you again.”

“If need be, I'll leave. Before I go, may I give you some good advice?”

“If you must but be quick!”

“All children who don't listen to their parents and run away on their own, end up in trouble and have to regret their disobedience.”

Pinocchio says, “I will leave tomorrow morning. Then you can live here again. I don't like it here. If I stay, I'll have to go to school and study, and I don't like that. Catching butterflies and looking for bird's nests is much more fun!”

“Oh, you fool! Do you know how far you'll get with that? You'll soon be a donkey, and everyone will laugh at you,” replies the cricket.

---ENDE DER LESEPROBE---