Hello students. I’m proud of you for completing years 1 and 2 of our American English course. In order for you to become a strong intermediate American English learner, you need to be able to read, understand, and discuss abridged American English short stories. In this lesson, throughout Year 3 of your studies, you will read, listen to, and write about popular American English short stories. Please follow the directions below closely.
- Study the American English vocabulary below.
Words in This Story
avenue – n. a wide street
glove(s) – n. a covering for the hand that has separate parts for each finger
neck – n. the part of the body between the head and the shoulders
park – n. a piece of public land in or near a city that is kept free of houses and other buildings and can be used for pleasure and exercise
count – n. a nobleman in some European countries who has a high rank similar to a British earl
shop – n. a building or room where goods and services are sold
chain – n. a series of usually metal links or rings that are connected to each other in a line and used for supporting heavy things, for holding things together or for decoration
guess(ed) – v. to form an opinion or give an answer about something when you do not know much or anything about it
wedding – n. a ceremony at which two people are married to each other
- Listen to the story.
- Watch the video and read along.
- Take the short story quiz.
Take the quiz: https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/3376016/p1.html
- Write a summary of the short story you just read and listened to in the comments section below. Click here to read an article that teaches you how to summarize a story. Remember to let us know who the characters of the story are, what they do, and what the story is about.
Lesson 3.48.2: Year 3
American story.
The story of this weak is,” The Count and Wedding guest.” written by O.Henry
I took the quiz of the story, and I got 100% result.
Lesson 3.48.3: Year3
American story, ”The Count and the Wedding guest” written by O.Henry.
People do many strange things when looking for love or gain attention. Sometimes people do not always tell the truth such as in the story of, ‘The count and the Wedding Guest”, written by O.Henry. The story is about two characters, a young man named Andy Donovan and a woman named Miss Conway. There are no other significant characters mentioned in the story. The story is set in a second Avenue boarding house, where the protagonist, Andy Donovan resides One evening at dinner he meets a new guest a young lady, Miss Conway. she is small and quite lady. Both of them exchange smiles. After two weeks Miss Conway, wearing a night-black dress, gloves, and hat, all black. Expression of sadness is on her face. She pretends to be mourning her deceased fiancé just to gain attention and care and love. At that moment, Andy Donovan falls in love with her. when she confesses the truth and tearfully admits to Andy that she had lied about the boyfriend, she had never had a boyfriend. They become closer, eventually get married.