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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “Three Men in a Boat” begins
There were four of us—George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.
We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were—bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course.
We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it.
Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said that he had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what he was doing.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “Three Men in a Boat” at level B1 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- sight
- stream
- launch
- gentleman
- afterwards
- spot
- ought
- fellow
- pleasant
- sail
- while
- wonder
- pie
- inn
- lean
- rush
- pipe
- evidently
- row
- steam
- comic
- spirit
- tomb
- fancy
- mad
- altogether
- determine
- stroke
- canvas
- bow
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Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “Three Men in a Boat”
How much of each kind of grammar “Three Men in a Boat” 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
- Phrasal verbs
- Modal verbs
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- At/on/in (time) At about four o’clock we began to discuss our arrangements for the evening.
- Phrasal verb with on/off We hired a sailing boat at the yard by the bridge, and started off.
- Relative clauses with where It was a little four-roomed cottage where the boy lived, and his mother—good soul!
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About the book
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