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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 Count of Monte Cristo” begins
On the 24th of February, 1815, the lookout at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.
As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Château d’If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgiou and Rion island.
Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon , has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “The Count of Monte Cristo” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- carriage
- fortune
- exclaim
- thus
- inquire
- honor
- saint
- heaven
- strike
- utter
- approach
- master
- tone
- seek
- advance
- scarcely
- assure
- fellow
- affair
- possess
- conceal
- mean
- bow
- misfortune
- observe
- perceive
- accompany
- bear
- banker
- countenance
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Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “The Count of Monte Cristo”
How much of each kind of grammar “The Count of Monte Cristo” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Relative clauses
- Perfect tenses
- Passive voice
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Modal verbs
- Phrasal verbs
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- Phrasal verbs with 'out' (find out, carry out, work out) “And was it not found out at last to whom the horse and jockey belonged?
- Present perfect continuous More likely he has been speculating on the Bourse, and has lost money.
- try to do Now, if you are mad and try to bite me, I will kill you without pity.
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About the book
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