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Read “The Blue Castle” by L. M. Montgomery 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 Blue Castle” begins
If it had not rained on a certain May morning Valancy Stirling’s whole life would have been entirely different.
She would have gone, with the rest of her clan, to Aunt Wellington’s engagement picnic and Dr. Trent would have gone to Montreal.
But it did rain and you shall hear what happened to her because of it.
Valancy wakened early, in the lifeless, hopeless hour just preceding dawn.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “The Blue Castle” at level B1 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- olive
- castle
- port
- pine
- gay
- clan
- soul
- wonder
- pale
- stare
- beauty
- moonlight
- hang
- creature
- pile
- dust
- glad
- dare
- rose
- drunk
- queer
- lip
- pill
- forgive
- horrible
- silk
- dreadful
- while
- demand
- bear
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 Blue Castle”
How much of each kind of grammar “The Blue Castle” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Perfect tenses
- Modal verbs
- Relative clauses
- Passive voice
- Phrasal verbs
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- I used to … The garden, which Cissy used to keep neat and pretty, had run wild.
- Past perfect active But she did not feel repentant—only sorry she had offended her mother.
- At/on/in (time) At noon it stopped raining, but the sun did not come out until three.
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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About the book
Why The Blue Castle is a great book to read in English
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