4 livres à lire pour améliorer son anglais
Lire est une des meilleures façons d’apprendre ou de s’améliorer dans une autre langue. Même si, de nos jours, nos téléphones prennent beaucoup de place dans nos vies, la lecture reste appréciée de beaucoup.
Grâce à l’application TikTok, en effet, beaucoup de gens (re)découvrent leur passion pour la lecture.
On t’a concocté une liste de livres qui va booster ton niveau dans la langue de Shakespeare. En cette fin d’année, pourquoi ne pas partager ta passion avec ta famille ? Un livre est un cadeau toujours apprécié…
1. Shadow and Bone de Leigh Bardugo
Tu connais probablement la série Shadow and Bone sur Netflix. Shadow and Bone est basé sur la trilogie écrite par Leigh Bardugo. Si tu as apprécié la série et que tu ne veux pas attendre Netflix pour découvrir la fin de l’histoire, je te le conseille!
Tu n’as pas vu la série mais tu aimes les aventures fantastiques? Go for it!
<< Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.
Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of her heart. Excerpt from Goodreads. >>
2. One of Us is Lying – Karen M. McManus
Cinq étudiants rentrent en heures de colle, seuls 4 en ressortent vivants. Suspense, meurtre et beaucoup de mensonges… C’est un livre qui te gardera éveillé tout en améliorant ton anglais.
<< Pay close attention and you might solve this.
On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.
Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.
Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.
Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.
Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher.
And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app.
Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention Simon’s dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he’d planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who’s still on the loose?
Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them. Excerpt from Goodreads.>>
3. Anna and the French Kiss – Stephanie Perkins
Pour les romantiques … Anna, une ado américaine un peu maladroite, se retrouve à Paris. Un roman léger qui te fera voyager dans la capitale de l’amour. Une lecture facile et agréable.
<< Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris–until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Étienne has it all…including a serious girlfriend.
But in the City of Light, wishes have a way of coming true. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with their long-awaited French kiss? Excerpt from Goodreads.>>
4. The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follet
Après ton voyage à Paris, pourquoi ne pas voyager dans le temps et remonter à l’époque de la construction des cathédrales. Ken Follet t’emporte dans un autre monde… révolu mais qu’il fait revivre extraordinairement bien. Prévoyez du temps pour la lecture. Une fois commencé, le livre est difficile à fermer!
<< The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king. Excerpt from Goodreads. >>
