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Read “Oliver Twist” 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 “Oliver Twist” begins
Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “Oliver Twist” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- inquire
- master
- rejoin
- bear
- observe
- companion
- tear
- exclaim
- twist
- fellow
- candle
- countenance
- strike
- hastily
- pace
- thus
- demand
- tone
- waistcoat
- afterwards
- utter
- nod
- rouse
- scarcely
- cry
- circumstance
- creature
- proceed
- render
- heaven
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Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “Oliver Twist”
How much of each kind of grammar “Oliver Twist” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Relative clauses
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Phrasal verbs
- Passive voice
- Perfect tenses
- Modal verbs
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- Phrasal verbs with 'out' (find out, carry out, work out) I won’t shed blood; it’s always found out, and haunts a man besides.
- -ing clause as adverbial (Feeling tired, …) “Hear me speak a word,” rejoined Fagin, laying his hand upon the lock.
- Past perfect continuous (I had been doing) Truth to tell, the supper had been waiting a most unreasonable time.
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About the book
Why Oliver Twist is a great book to read in English
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