The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Poe Audiobook Elementary A2

The Cask of Amontillado – Easy English Story with Audio (A2)

The Cask of Amontillado — Summary (A2 Level)

by Edgar Allan Poe – an adapted audiobook in English (Level 2/Elementary A2) featuring a parallel translation. Read and listen online. Bilingual method. Approximately 500 unique words.

Summary

This is a dark story by Edgar Allan Poe. 📖🖤 The narrator is a man named Montresor. He has a friend named Fortunato. But Montresor does not really like Fortunato. 😠 In fact, he hates him. 💢 Fortunato hurt him many times in the past. 😢 Montresor never showed his anger. He smiled at Fortunato, but inside he wanted revenge. 😏🔪

One evening during carnival season, 🎭 Montresor meets Fortunato on the street. Fortunato is drunk. 🍷😵 He is wearing a colorful costume with bells on his hat. 🎩🔔 Montresor tells him he bought a rare wine called Amontillado. 🍾 He says he is not sure if it is real. 🤔 He says he will ask another man, Luchesi, to taste it. Fortunato says Luchesi knows nothing about wine. 🙄 He wants to taste it himself. 😤

Montresor takes Fortunato to his family palace. 🏰 They go down into the dark, cold cellars under the building. 🕯️⬇️ There are tombs and bones there. 💀🦴 Fortunato coughs because of the cold and damp air. 🤧 Montresor tells him to go back, but Fortunato says no. 🙅‍♂️

They go deeper and deeper. 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️ Finally they reach a small room. 🚪 There are iron handcuffs on the wall. ⛓️ Montresor quickly chains Fortunato to the wall. 😱 Then he takes stones and cement from under a pile of bones. 🪨🧱 He starts to build a wall in the doorway. 🧱🔨 He blocks Fortunato inside. 😨

Fortunato screams and shakes the chains. 😫⛓️ Then he laughs and thinks it is a joke. 😂 He asks Montresor to let him go. 🙏 But Montresor does not answer. 🤐 He finishes the wall. 🧱✅ He puts the last stone in place. 🪨 He pushes the bones in front of the new wall. 💀

The narrator says this happened fifty years ago. ⏳ No one has touched the bones since then. 🦴🚫 He says, “May he rest in peace.” ⚰️🕊️

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Vocabulary List (B1–B2)

1. revenge (noun) 😠🔪
Meaning: Something you do to hurt someone because they hurt you first.
Example: Montresor wanted revenge on Fortunato.

2. to insult (verb) 🗯️😤
Meaning: To say or do something rude that hurts someone.
Example: Fortunato insulted Montresor many times.

3. to punish (verb) ⚖️😣
Meaning: To make someone suffer because they did something wrong.
Example: Montresor promised to punish Fortunato.

4. fool (noun) 🤡
Meaning: A stupid person.
Example: Fortunato liked to make Montresor look like a fool.

5. to hate (verb) 💢🖤
Meaning: To dislike someone very much.
Example: Deep in his heart, Montresor hated Fortunato.

6. to pretend (verb) 🎭😊
Meaning: To act like something is true when it is not.
Example: Montresor pretended to be Fortunato’s friend.

7. anger (noun) 😡🔥
Meaning: The feeling you have when you are very mad.
Example: Montresor never showed his anger.

8. to promise (verb) 🤝📜
Meaning: To say you will definitely do something.
Example: He promised himself he would punish Fortunato.

9. carnival (noun) 🎭🎉
Meaning: A festival with music, costumes, and parties.
Example: It was carnival season in the town.

10. costume (noun) 👗🎩
Meaning: Special clothes you wear to look like someone or something else.
Example: Fortunato wore a colorful costume with bells.

11. cask (noun) 🛢️🍷
Meaning: A large wooden container for liquids like wine.
Example: Montresor said he bought a cask of Amontillado.

12. Amontillado (noun) 🍾🇪🇸
Meaning: A rare and expensive type of Spanish wine.
Example: Fortunato was excited about the Amontillado.

13. wine cellar (noun) 🍷🏚️
Meaning: A dark room under a house where wine is kept.
Example: The wine was in the cellar under the palace.

14. tomb (noun) ⚰️💀
Meaning: A place where dead people are buried.
Example: The tombs were dark and quiet.

15. damp (adjective) 💧🥶
Meaning: A little wet, often in a cold way.
Example: The air in the cellar was damp and cold.

16. to cough (verb) 🤧
Meaning: To push air out of your throat with a sudden noise.
Example: Fortunato began to cough in the cold cellar.

17. to chain (verb) ⛓️🔒
Meaning: To tie someone with metal chains so they cannot move.
Example: Montresor chained Fortunato to the wall.

18. handcuffs (noun) ⛓️👐
Meaning: Metal rings that lock around a person’s hands.
Example: There were iron handcuffs on the wall.

19. to scream (verb) 😱📢
Meaning: To make a loud, high cry because of fear or pain.
Example: Fortunato screamed loudly.

20. cement (noun) 🧱🪣
Meaning: A grey powder that becomes hard when mixed with water. Used to hold stones together.
Example: Montresor used cement to build the wall.

21. stone (noun) 🪨
Meaning: A hard, solid piece of rock.
Example: He built the wall with stones and cement.

22. shovel (noun) 🪏
Meaning: A tool used for digging or moving things like stones.
Example: There was a small shovel under the bones.

23. bones (noun) 🦴💀
Meaning: The hard parts inside a body.
Example: A pile of bones was against the wall.

24. to bury (verb) ⚰️🪦
Meaning: To put a dead body under the ground.
Example: The family buried their dead in the tombs.

25. to jingle (verb) 🔔🎶
Meaning: To make a light ringing sound.
Example: The bells on Fortunato’s hat jingled.

26. to moan (verb) 😩🔊
Meaning: To make a low sound because of pain or sadness.
Example: Fortunato moaned inside the small room.

27. silence (noun) 🤫🔇
Meaning: No sound at all.
Example: After the moaning, there was a long silence.

28. joke (noun) 😂🎭
Meaning: Something you say or do to make people laugh.
Example: Fortunato thought it was a joke.

29. to rest in peace (phrase) 🕊️⚰️
Meaning: A phrase said about someone who has died. It means “may they be calm and happy now.”
Example: Montresor said, “May he rest in peace.”

30. half a century (phrase) ⏳5️⃣0️⃣
Meaning: Fifty years.
Example: For half a century, no one touched the bones.

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