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Read “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens 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 “A Christmas Carol” begins
Marley was dead, to begin with.
There is no doubt whatever about that.
The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.
Scrooge signed it.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 29 words you will meet most often in “A Christmas Carol” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- observe
- shadow
- phantom
- master
- fellow
- bless
- exclaim
- bear
- self
- scarcely
- goose
- pudding
- strike
- humbug
- creature
- blind
- dull
- former
- conduct
- pursue
- glance
- heaven
- darkness
- candle
- inquire
- ghostly
- seek
- forth
- tank
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Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “A Christmas Carol”
How much of each kind of grammar “A Christmas Carol” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Phrasal verbs
- Passive voice
- Relative clauses
- Perfect tenses
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Modal verbs
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- Phrasal verb with 'down' They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment.
- -ing clause as adverbial (Feeling tired, …) As he stood there, waiting his arrival, the knocker caught his eye.
- Subject relative clause with who/that/which In everything that made my love of any worth or value in your sight.
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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Grammar in context
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About the book
Why A Christmas Carol is a great book to read in English
Ebenezer Scrooge, the meanest man in London, is visited by four ghosts in one night and given a last chance to change. Dickens's 1843 novella is compact — five chapters, one evening of reading — and its mix of humour, pathos, and vivid scenes has made it many learners' first Dickens.
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