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Read “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum in English. Tap any word for its meaning, hear how it sounds, and save it to a memory-driven review schedule.
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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” begins
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife.
Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles.
There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds.
Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” at level B1 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- tin
- wicked
- beast
- straw
- journey
- stuff
- courage
- indeed
- basket
- balloon
- castle
- branch
- rule
- glad
- brick
- pole
- greatly
- crow
- silk
- cowardly
- tear
- sharp
- creature
- chop
- wolf
- charm
- bow
- joint
- inquire
- powerful
The meanings here are the everyday ones. In the reader, tap a word to see the sense this sentence uses.
Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”
How much of each kind of grammar “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Relative clauses
- Passive voice
- Modal verbs
- Perfect tenses
- Reported speech
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Phrasal verbs
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- Relative clauses with where Keep to the West, where the sun sets, and you cannot fail to find her.
- Phrasal verb with on/off To be sure, the broad river now cut them off from this beautiful land.
- -ing clause as adverbial (Feeling tired, …) “And I shall get back to Kansas,” cried Dorothy, clapping her hands.
Counted the way the Reader shows it: one card per construction in a sentence. Open the book in the Reader and tap a highlighted phrase to see the rule.
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What you get while you read
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Grammar in context
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About the book
Why The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a great book to read in English
A Kansas cyclone drops Dorothy's house in a strange land, and the road to getting home is paved with yellow brick. Baum's 1900 fairy tale moves in short, clear chapters with constant dialogue — one of the smoothest first novels to read in English.
On LangOrbit you read “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” with a safety net: the translation is one tap away when a sentence runs long, every word opens its meaning in context and can be saved for spaced-repetition review, and the grammar behind the trickier lines is explained right where you meet it.
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