The Radio Girls on the program
The Radio Girls on the program by Margaret Penrose is available here as the complete text, split into 701 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Radio Girls on the program by Margaret Penrose. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #70429.
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The Radio Girls on the program
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This edition of The Radio Girls on the program by Margaret Penrose carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #70429, divided into 25 chapters and 701 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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The complete text of The Radio Girls on the program is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #70429 and divided into 701 sections.
This page carries the whole of The Radio Girls on the program by Margaret Penrose, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #70429, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 3504 sentences across 25 chapters. Each chapter stores a record of which sentences cover which part of the work, so nothing is quietly dropped between the source edition and the page you read.
How is The Radio Girls on the program divided for reading?
The Radio Girls on the program is presented in 25 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting The Radio Girls on the program as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 701 sections of 5 sentences each. A section is short enough to hold in mind at once, which suits a reader working in a second language or returning to a long work in short sittings. The sections are gathered into 25 chapters.
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Every sentence of The Radio Girls on the program can be played aloud, and so can any single word within it. Tapping a word plays it on its own and opens its dictionary entry, with the pronunciation shown in IPA alongside the part of speech and meaning. The reading voice uses United States English. This matters most for a work of this period, where a reader meets vocabulary and turns of phrase that are no longer in daily use and cannot be guessed reliably from spelling alone.
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Is this the complete text of The Radio Girls on the program?
Yes. All 3504 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #70429 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of The Radio Girls on the program is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #70429, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does The Radio Girls on the program take to read?
About 292 minutes of reading across 701 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in The Radio Girls on the program
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