Exercise 5. Retell the "Choice".

Светлана в категроии Английский язык, вопрос открыт 13.04.2017 в 01:25

- Перескажите рассказ "Выбор" - так, как должны звучать все пересказы: в прошедшем времени, от третьего лица, то есть местоимения I, we заменяются на he,they. Не обязательно "преобразовывать" текст слово в слово, предложение за предложением. Добавляйте любые слова и фразы, которые помогут вам легче выразить мысль.
Как назвать рассказчика? Можно так: the man или William's friend.
Нет необходимости сохранять в пересказе все say: he said, they said... Сразу сообщайте суть дела. Выпишем одно предложение из оригинала и перескажем по-разному его содержание.
I said, "I expected you would be away several years."
William's friend expected that William would be away several years. Или: He expected that William would come back only in a few years. Или: He thought that he would not see William for many years.
Как пересказать своими словами фразу Let's have some coffee? Ответ: Как можно проще. Например, так: Не wanted some coffee. Или: Не asked for a cup of coffee.
В целом, при пересказе вместо сложных конструкций и слов используйте простые.
I was hardly able to contain my impatience and asked again, "Well?"
He wanted to hear William's story very much so he told him to begin his story.

Вот сам текст, который нужно пересказать:

The Choice

Выбор

Before William went into the future he bought a camera and a tape-recorder and learnt shorthand. That night when all was ready, we made coffee and had some brandy to his health.
"Good-bye," I said. "Do not stay there too long."
"I will not," he answered.
I watched him carefully. He flickered and... hardly a second passed before he was back. He seemed not a day older.
"Well," I said, "I expected you would be away several years."
"Well," said he, "let's have some coffee."
I poured it out, hardly able to contain my impatience. As I gave him his cup, I said again, "Well?"
"Well, the thing is, I cannot remember."
"You cannot remember? Not a thing?"
He thought for a moment and answered sadly, "Not a thing."
"But your notes, your camera? The tape-recorder?"
The notebook was empty, the indicator of the camera showed that no pictures had been taken, the tape was not even loaded into the recorder.
"Why?" I exclaimed. "How did it happen? You do not remember anything at all?"
"I can remember only one thing."
"What was that?"
"They showed me everything and gave me the choice whether I wanted to remember it or not after I got back."
"And you chose not to? What extraordinary things did they show you? Why did you choose to forget?"
"I can only wonder myself," he said.
I could not help wondering either.