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Read “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett 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 Secret Garden” begins
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
It was true, too.
She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression.
Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “The Secret Garden” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- moor
- queer
- stare
- mistress
- rose
- creature
- cottage
- dare
- corridor
- dig
- curious
- nest
- bush
- skip
- cheek
- bear
- gardener
- inquire
- scarcely
- master
- whisper
- leave
- exclaim
- plain
- fox
- gaze
- mysterious
- somehow
- scream
- carriage
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 Secret Garden”
How much of each kind of grammar “The Secret Garden” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Phrasal verbs
- Perfect tenses
- Modal verbs
- Relative clauses
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Reported speech
- Passive voice
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- Phrasal verbs with 'out' (find out, carry out, work out) He could order the gardeners to keep away so they wouldn’t find out.
- try to do Perhaps he’ll try to throw his pillow at me again, but—I think—I’ll go.
- I used to … He’s growing very peculiar—when you compare him with what he used to be.
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.
Library
What you get while you read
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Grammar in context
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About the book
Why The Secret Garden is a great book to read in English
Spoiled, lonely Mary Lennox is sent to a Yorkshire manor full of locked doors — and finds a key, a hidden garden, and a cousin everyone pretends does not exist. Burnett's 1911 novel grows from gloom to joy in simple, heartfelt English, with a little Yorkshire dialect as seasoning.
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