Netflix summarizes Anne with an E like this: "A plucky orphan whose passions run deep finds an unlikely home with a spinster and her soft-spoken bachelor brother. Based on "Anne of Green Gables."
After reading this, you may think:
- What's the meaning of plucky, spinster and bachelor?
- And what's "Anne of Green Gables", after all?
Well, let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start!
Plucky is a synonym for brave, courageous, adventurous
Spinster is an old-fashioned (and unacceptable!) noun to define a woman who is not very young and probably won't marry
Bachelor is a man who has never married
Anne with an E is a Canadian television series based on the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl, who is sent to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island.
Since its publication, Anne of Green Gables has been translated into at least 36 languages and has sold more than 50 million copies, making it one of the best selling books worldwide.
1. The whole series is filled with amazing quotes. Read them and answer the questions that follow:
a) “You have a life of such joy before you. Not without hardship. Not without bumps in the road. Be safe with those you trust. But when you do find people to trust, the bond will be that much greater.” - Aunt Josephine
Choose a synonym for bond:
b) “Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive–it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There’d be no scope ____ imagination then, would there?” - Anne
Choose the preposition to complete the quote:
c) “I’m as strong as a boy, and I prefer to be outdoors rather than cooped up in a kitchen. It doesn’t make sense that girls aren’t allowed to do farm work when girls can do anything a boy can do and more! Do you consider yourself to be delicate and incapable? Because I certainly don’t. - Anne
Complete: If you are
somewhere, you are in a small closed space from which you cannot escape, or you feel as if you are.
d) “The best part of knowing the rules is finding acceptable ways of ______ them.” - Miss Rose
Choose the appropriate verb to complete the quote:
e) “I reckon every new idea was modern once, until it wasn’t.” - Matthew Cuthbert
To reckon is:
f) “It’s not what the world _____ for you, it is what you bring to it.” - Anne
Choose the correct verb to complete the sentence:
