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The Empty Chair

Boş Sandalye

Eskişehir'de bir ailenin sofrasında, babanın vefatından sonra onun sandalyesi boş kalır. Kimse o sandalyeden söz etmez, ama herkes onun yokluğunu hisseder. Küçük kız Defne'nin masum bir sorusu, ailenin acısını paylaşmasına ve yeniden birbirlerine yaklaşmasına yardımcı olur.

Boş Sandalye: hikaye kapak çizimi
Eskişehir413 kelime · 11 yeni kelimeGramer: wish + past simple / past perfect

Altı noktalı kelimelere dokun, anlamı çıksın.

In a small in Eskişehir, the family always ate dinner together at six o'clock. Mother, grandmother, and two children sat around the round wooden table. There were four plates, four glasses, and one chair. Nobody sat in it, and nobody talked about it.

It had been Baba's chair. Three months earlier, he had died suddenly of a . He was a bus driver who loved bad jokes and loud laughter. Since then, the flat had become very quiet. The family ate in silence, and the sound of seemed too loud.

Defne, the younger child, was seven years old. She looked at the empty chair every evening. Her brother Can, who was fourteen, looked only at his plate. Their mother, Sevgi, kept her eyes on the window. Everyone was thinking about the same person, but nobody to speak.

Sevgi often thought, "I wish I were stronger." She believed that if she cried, the children would be even sadder. So she smiled, cooked dinner, and went to the kitchen to cry quietly. Can thought, "I wish I had said goodbye to him that morning." He felt because he had been to his father the night before.

One evening, in the middle of dinner, Defne put her spoon down. "Why doesn't anyone talk about Baba?" she asked loudly. Everybody froze. "I wish he were here," she said, and her small voice started to . "I wish I could hear his silly jokes again."

For a moment, nobody moved. Then Grandmother put her hand on Defne's . "Do you remember the joke about the bus and the chicken?" she asked softly. Can lifted his head. A tiny smile appeared on his face. "The one that never made sense," he said, "but he always laughed first."

Sevgi started to laugh and cry at the same time. Soon, everyone was talking. They told stories about the summer holidays, his terrible singing, and the day he got lost in his own city. Can finally said, "I wish I had told him how much I loved him." "He knew," said his mother, holding his hand. "Believe me, he always knew."

That night, dinner lasted two hours. Nobody removed the empty chair. But from that day on, it was no longer a symbol of silence. Each evening, someone told a from the chair's owner, and the family laughed and cried together. The flat was still quiet at times, but it was never lonely again.

Kelimeler

Hikayedeki 11 yeni kelime, hikayeden örnek cümleleriyle.

flatisimdaire

In a small flat in Eskişehir...

emptysıfatboş

...and one empty chair.

heart attackisimkalp krizi

...he had died suddenly of a heart attack.

forkisimçatal

...the sound of forks seemed too loud.

darefiilcesaret etmek

...nobody dared to speak.

guiltysıfatsuçlu hisseden

He felt guilty...

rudesıfatkaba, saygısız

...he had been rude to his father...

freezefiildonup kalmak

Everybody froze.

shakefiiltitremek

...her small voice started to shake.

shoulderisimomuz

...put her hand on Defne's shoulder.

memoryisimanı

...someone told a memory...

Gramer notu

Wish + past simple / past perfect (I wish I were..., I wish I had...)

Bu hikayede wish yapısı öne çıkıyor. Bir şeyin farklı olmasını istediğimizde veya pişmanlık duyduğumuzda kullanılır.

  • Wish + past simple = şu an için gerçek olmayan bir durumu dile getirir:
  • I wish I were stronger. (Keşke daha güçlü olsaydım.)
  • I wish he were here. (Keşke burada olsaydı.)
  • Burada be fiilinde her özne için were kullanılır.
  • Wish + past perfect = geçmişteki bir olaya duyulan pişmanlık:
  • I wish I had said goodbye. (Keşke hoşça kal deseydim.)
  • I wish I had told him how much I loved him. (Keşke ona ne kadar sevdiğimi söyleseydim.)
  • Wish + could = istediğimiz ama yapamadığımız bir şey:
  • I wish I could hear his jokes again. (Keşke şakalarını tekrar duyabilsem.)
  • Bu yapılarda zaman bir adım geriye gider ama anlam şimdiki zaman veya geçmişle ilgilidir.
  • Hope gerçek olabilecek şeyler için, wish gerçek olmayan şeyler için kullanılır.

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6 kısa soru. Cevabını seç, hemen doğrusunu gör.

1.What was strange about the family's dinner table?

2.Whose chair was it?

3.Why did Sevgi go to the kitchen to cry?

4.Why did Can feel guilty?

5.What did Defne do that changed the evening?

6.What happened to the chair at the end?