Chapter 7 of On Adventure Island is here in full — 248 sentences across 50 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of On Adventure Island is here in full — 248 sentences across 50 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Crashed! The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau. Prim gripped her sister’s arm. She felt giddy and faint. A cry escaped her.
Chapter 7 of On Adventure Island is here in full — 248 sentences across 50 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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past form of “crash” — fall or come down violently
From this reading “Crashed!”
an athletic competition that involves diving into water
From this reading “The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.”
plural of “flyer” — an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
From this reading “The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.”
having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
From this reading “She felt giddy and faint.”
a relatively flat highland
From this reading “The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.”
assume a prim appearance
From this reading “Prim gripped her sister’s arm.”
place limits on (extent or amount or access)
From this reading “The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.”
a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
From this reading “The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
In this reading “A cry escaped her.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading A cry escaped her.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading She felt giddy and faint.
a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb
From this reading Prim gripped her sister’s arm.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
past form of “crash” — fall or come down violently
From this reading Crashed!
utter a sudden loud cry
From this reading A cry escaped her.
an athletic competition that involves diving into water
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
having escaped, especially from confinement
From this reading A cry escaped her.
deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
From this reading She felt giddy and faint.
mat together and make felt-like
From this reading She felt giddy and faint.
plural of “flyer” — an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
From this reading She felt giddy and faint.
a young female
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
inflected form of “grip” — hold fast or firmly
From this reading Prim gripped her sister’s arm.
having a heading or course in a certain direction
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Prim gripped her sister’s arm.
To move from a closed position.
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
a relatively flat highland
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
assume a prim appearance
From this reading Prim gripped her sister’s arm.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She felt giddy and faint.
possessive form of “sister” — a female person who has the same parents as another person
From this reading Prim gripped her sister’s arm.
successive (without a break)
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
place limits on (extent or amount or access)
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
in the direction of
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
past form of “watch” — look attentively
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
in the company of; together with
From this reading The girl flyers watched with thumping hearts as the plane, diving with wide open throttle, headed straight toward the plateau.
Chapter 7 of On Adventure Island by Bess Moyer holds 248 sentences, grouped into 50 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 7 holds 248 sentences of On Adventure Island, unabridged, divided into 50 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of On Adventure Island by Bess Moyer exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 248 sentences, grouped into 50 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 50 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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