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Read “A Little Princess” 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 “A Little Princess” begins
Once on a dark winter’s day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.
She sat with her feet tucked under her, and leaned against her father, who held her in his arm, as she stared out of the window at the passing people with a queer old-fashioned thoughtfulness in her big eyes.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “A Little Princess” at level B1 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- princess
- gentleman
- pupil
- ram
- pretend
- captain
- stare
- whisper
- mine
- queer
- bun
- exclaim
- indeed
- fond
- diamond
- wonder
- rat
- dare
- scarcely
- servant
- kind
- odd
- clever
- somehow
- ought
- cheek
- fortune
- frightened
- sixpence
- 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 “A Little Princess”
How much of each kind of grammar “A Little Princess” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Perfect tenses
- Passive voice
- Modal verbs
- Relative clauses
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Reported speech
- Phrasal verbs
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- I used to … And to think I used to pretend and pretend and wish there were fairies!
- Past perfect active That meant that Ermengarde had managed to creep up to pay her a visit.
- Subject relative clause with who/that/which Scullery-maids were machines who carried coal-scuttles and made fires.
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 A Little Princess is a great book to read in English
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