LIRE EN ANGLAIS : 7 EXTRAITS DE LIVRES

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extraits de livres pour

s'entraîner
LES ROMANS CULTES POUR
S’ENTRAÎNER À LIRE EN ANGLAIS
Lire en anglais est une excellente habitude pour améliorer son
niveau de langue, de même qu’écouter la radio anglophone ou
regarder des films en anglais. Cette activité permet de se
familiariser avec des tournures de phrase et d’assimiler de
nouveaux mots de vocabulaire dans leur contexte.

Rassurez-vous, quand on commence à lire en anglais, il est

parfaitement normal de ne pas comprendre certains mots, voire
certaines phrases. Si c’est votre cas, vous constaterez rapidement
que ces incompréhensions se font de plus en plus rares, et surtout
qu’elles ne gêneront pas votre compréhension globale du récit !

Pour commencer, inutile de se lancer dans la lecture d’ouvrages

cryptiques qui risqueraient de vous décourager. Dans cette fiche,
nous vous proposons quelques textes extraits de livres accessibles
et universels pour vous entraîner à lire en anglais !

ENTRAÎNEMENT À LIRE ET
COMPRENDRE L’ANGLAIS
Texte 1 à lire : Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter
à l’école des sorciers), J.K Rowling, 1997

“Nearly ten years had passed since the Dursleys had woken up to
find their nephew on the front step, but Privet Drive had hardly
changed at all. The sun rose on the same tidy front gardens and lit
up the brass number four on the Dursleys' front door; it crept into
their living room, which was almost exactly the same as it had
been on the night when Mr. Dursley had seen that fateful news
report about the owls. Only the photographs on the mantelpiece
really showed how much time had passed.”

Texte 2 à lire : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Les Aventures

d'Alice au pays des merveilles), Lewis Carroll, 1865

“Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the
bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped
into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or
conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice
“without pictures or conversations?”
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for
the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the
pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of
getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit
with pink eyes ran close by her.”

Texte 3 en anglais : The Lord of The Rings, Vol. I - The Fellowship of

the Ring (La Communauté de l'Anneau), J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954

“When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would

shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of
special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in
Hobbiton.
Bilbo was very rich and very peculiar, and had been the wonder of
the Shire for sixty years, ever since his remarkable disappearance
and unexpected return. The riches he had brought back from his
travels had now become a local legend, and it was popularly
believed, whatever the old folk might say, that the Hill at Bag End
was full of tunnels stuffed with treasure.”

Extrait 4 : The Great Gatsby (Gatsby le Magnifique), F. Scott

Fitzgerald, 1925

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me

some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just
remember that all the people in this world haven't had the
advantages that you've had."

He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually

communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a
great deal more than that. In consequence I'm inclined to reserve
all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures
to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. “

Extrait 5 : To Kill a Mockingbird (Ne tirez pas sur l’oiseau moqueur),

Harper Lee, 1960

“When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly
broken at the
elbow. When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play
football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his
injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right; when he
stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right angles to his
body, his thumb parallel to his thigh. He couldn’t have cared less,
so long as he could pass and punt.”

Texte 6 : Lord of the Flies (Sa Majesté des mouches), William Golding,
1954

“The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of
rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. Though he had
taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his
grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead.
All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of
heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken
trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards
with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another.”

Texte 7 en anglais : Animal Farm (La Ferme des animaux), George

Orwell, 1945

“Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the
night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes. With
the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he
lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew
himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and
made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.
As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring
and a fluttering all through the farm buildings. Word had gone
round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle White boar,
had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to
communicate it to the other animals.”

Vous l’aurez constaté, lire en anglais n’est pas si difficile ! Si un

extrait vous a particulièrement plu, procurez-vous l’ouvrage
complet en anglais et regardez votre compréhension écrite
s’améliorer de page en page.
Pour vous aider à mieux comprendre vos premières lectures,
découvrez les 90 faux amis à connaître en anglais.

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