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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” begins
On the 24th of May, 1863, my uncle, Professor Liedenbrock, rushed into his little house, No. 19 Königstrasse, one of the oldest streets in the oldest portion of the city of Hamburg.
Martha must have concluded that she was very much behindhand, for the dinner had only just been put into the oven.
“Well, now,” said I to myself, “if that most impatient of men is hungry, what a disturbance he will make!”
“ M.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” at level B1 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- therefore
- league
- shore
- vast
- granite
- globe
- lava
- crater
- depth
- lay
- passage
- volcano
- stream
- phenomenon
- journey
- sail
- examine
- scarcely
- eruption
- soil
- theory
- iron
- monster
- immense
- force
- difficulty
- atmosphere
- oblige
- distant
- companion
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Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”
How much of each kind of grammar “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Passive voice
- Relative clauses
- Perfect tenses
- Modal verbs
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Phrasal verbs
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- At/on/in (time) In the evening we dined with Baron Tramps; the mayor of Reykjavík, and Dr.
- Relative clauses with where Fridrikssen’s house, where I found my uncle already in his host’s company.
- Past perfect active Fridrikssen wanted to know what success my uncle had had at the library.
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About the book
Why Journey to the Centre of the Earth is a great book to read in English
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