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Read “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson 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 “Treasure Island” begins
Squire Trelawney, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17—, and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow Inn, and the brown old seaman, with the saber cut, first took up his lodging under our roof.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “Treasure Island” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- mate
- deck
- crew
- strike
- fellow
- shore
- plain
- buccaneer
- cabin
- dare
- anchorage
- shot
- reckon
- bear
- blind
- companion
- cry
- pirate
- blow
- observe
- fortune
- current
- swing
- meantime
- terror
- log
- pine
- barrel
- tide
- gig
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 “Treasure Island”
How much of each kind of grammar “Treasure Island” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Phrasal verbs
- Perfect tenses
- Relative clauses
- Passive voice
- Modal verbs
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Conditionals
- Reported speech
Constructions to look for
- Phrasal verb with 'down' And you’ll put that down for me, too, for it’s a long stretch, is that!
- Relative clauses with where I volunteered for one of the boats, where I had, of course, no business.
- Past perfect active Arrow, first of all, turned out even worse than the captain had feared.
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 Treasure Island is a great book to read in English
A dead sailor's sea-chest, a map with an X, and a one-legged cook whose parrot screams 'pieces of eight': Jim Hawkins's voyage is the template for every treasure hunt since. Stevenson's 1883 adventure is brisk and visual, with just enough nautical salt to learn some unforgettable vocabulary.
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