داستان: قطار اشتباهی
یک داستان سفر خنده‌دار با پایانی غافلگیرکننده. ترتیب رویدادها را دنبال کنید و ببینید زمان‌های گذشته چطور با هم کار می‌کنند.
متن آموزش
این داستان گذشته‌ی ساده، گذشته‌ی استمراری و گذشته‌ی کامل را با هم به کار می‌برد. اول از داستان لذت ببرید، بعد ببینید زمان‌ها چطور ترتیب اتفاق‌ها را نشان می‌دهند.
The Wrong Train
Kamran had been planning the trip for weeks. He was going to meet his future in-laws in Tabriz for the first time, and he wanted everything to be perfect. He had bought a new shirt, a box of the best sweets in Tehran, and a train ticket for the 8:15 overnight train.
He arrived at the station just in time, found a train on platform 3 and jumped on. He was so tired that he fell asleep almost immediately.
When he woke up, the sun was rising. Through the window he could see palm trees. Strange, he thought. I didn't know there were palm trees near Tabriz. An old man was sitting opposite him, drinking tea.
“Excuse me,” Kamran asked, “how long until Tabriz?”
The old man laughed so hard that he nearly dropped his glass. “Tabriz? My son, this train is going to Ahvaz!”
Kamran had got on the wrong train. The train to Tabriz had been on platform 4.
He called his fiancée, Mina, expecting her to be angry. Instead, she couldn't stop laughing. When he finally arrived in Tabriz — a day late, with melted sweets and a very creased shirt — her whole family was waiting at the station. Her grandmother hugged him and said, “Anyone who travels to the wrong end of Iran to meet us is welcome in this family.”
Mina's family still tells the story at every wedding.
کلمه‌های کمکی
future in-laws (خانواده‌ی همسر آینده)، overnight train (قطار شبانه)، palm trees (درخت نخل)، fiancée (نامزد)، melted (آب‌شده)، creased (چروک)، welcome (خوش‌آمد، پذیرفته).
سؤال‌ها
- Why was this trip so important for Kamran?
- What had he prepared before the trip?
- What was the first clue that something was wrong?
- What mistake had he made?
- How did Mina react?
- What did the grandmother's words show?
جواب‌ها
- He was meeting his fiancée's family for the first time. (اولین بار بود خانواده‌ی نامزدش را می‌دید.)
- A new shirt, a box of sweets and a train ticket.
- He saw palm trees outside the window. (بیرون پنجره درخت نخل دید!)
- He got on the train on platform 3; the Tabriz train was on platform 4.
- She laughed instead of getting angry.
- That the family accepted him warmly and saw the funny side. (خانواده گرم پذیرفتندش و جنبه‌ی بامزه‌ی ماجرا را دیدند.)
زمان‌ها را پیدا کنید
این‌ها را در متن پیدا کنید: یک گذشته‌ی کامل استمراری (had been planning)، دو گذشته‌ی کامل (had bought، had got on)، یک گذشته‌ی استمراری (was sitting). چرا نویسنده هر کدام را به کار برده؟