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Read “Peter Pan” by J. M. Barrie 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 “Peter Pan” begins
All children, except one, grow up.
They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this.
One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother.
I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, “Oh, why can’t you remain like this forever!” This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “Peter Pan” at level B1 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- hook
- darling
- pirate
- slightly
- nursery
- captain
- tinker
- thus
- crocodile
- shadow
- whisper
- indeed
- glad
- fling
- strike
- cry
- kiss
- pretend
- cabin
- nest
- sight
- silly
- tail
- rush
- merely
- exclaim
- wonder
- gay
- iron
- leap
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 “Peter Pan”
How much of each kind of grammar “Peter Pan” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Perfect tenses
- Relative clauses
- Passive voice
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Modal verbs
- Reported speech
- Phrasal verbs
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- Past perfect continuous (I had been doing) It did not entirely fill the aperture, and he had been looking over it.
- -ing clause as adverbial (Feeling tired, …) Then up she flew; deserting her eggs, so as to make her meaning clear.
- Phrasal verb with on/off He tried to stick it on with soap from the bathroom, but that also failed.
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 Peter Pan is a great book to read in English
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