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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “Short Fiction” begins
We had now reached the summit of the loftiest crag.
For some minutes the old man seemed too much exhausted to speak.
“Not long ago,” said he at length, “and I could have guided you on this route as well as the youngest of my sons; but, about three years past, there happened to me an event such as never happened to mortal man—or at least such as no man ever survived to tell of—and the six hours of deadly terror which I then endured have broken me up body and soul.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “Short Fiction” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- thus
- perceive
- observe
- mean
- altogether
- soul
- arise
- circumstance
- latter
- proceed
- mere
- merely
- bear
- portion
- regard
- corpse
- scarcely
- shadow
- vast
- slight
- countenance
- somewhat
- terror
- genius
- remarkable
- fellow
- render
- entirely
- balloon
- heaven
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Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “Short Fiction”
How much of each kind of grammar “Short Fiction” 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
- Phrasal verbs
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Modal verbs
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- Even with a comparative I saw them now even more unequivocally than I beheld them then.
- Whose (possession) The mountain upon whose top we sit is Helseggen, the Cloudy.
- Phrasal verb with 'up' and preposition The cold was intense, and obliged me to wrap up closely in an overcoat.
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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About the book
Why Short Fiction is a great book to read in English
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