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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “Through the Looking-Glass” begins
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it:—it was the black kitten’s fault entirely.
For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it couldn’t have had any hand in the mischief.
The way Dinah washed her children’s faces was this: first she held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was lying quite still and trying to purr—no doubt feeling that it was all meant for its good.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “Through the Looking-Glass” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- tone
- remark
- messenger
- interrupt
- gently
- remark
- creature
- afterwards
- pudding
- tear
- rush
- helmet
- crown
- eagerly
- mutton
- grand
- whisper
- curious
- monster
- pause
- crab
- venture
- exclaim
- puzzled
- plum
- paw
- deny
- somehow
- rub
- scramble
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Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “Through the Looking-Glass”
How much of each kind of grammar “Through the Looking-Glass” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Phrasal verbs
- Modal verbs
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Reported speech
- Perfect tenses
- Relative clauses
- Passive voice
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- Phrasal verb with on/off “And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you’d be?
- -ing clause as adverbial (Feeling tired, …) Principal towns—why, what are those creatures, making honey down there?
- Past perfect active She thought she had never seen such a strange-looking soldier in all her life.
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 Through the Looking-Glass is a great book to read in English
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