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The Adventures of Pinocchio

Chapter III · Chapter 3

Chapter 3 of The Adventures of Pinocchio is here in full — 78 sentences across 16 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Carlo Collodi • Curated US English Learning Edition

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As soon as he gets home, Geppetto fashions the Marionette and calls it Pinocchio.

The first pranks of the Marionette.

Little as Geppetto’s house was, it was neat and comfortable.

It was a small room on the ground floor, with a tiny window under the stairway.

The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table.

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Chapter III Reading 1/15

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Chapter III · Chapter 3

Chapter 3 of The Adventures of Pinocchio is here in full — 78 sentences across 16 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/15 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

As soon as he gets home, Geppetto fashions the Marionette and calls it Pinocchio.

Line 2

The first pranks of the Marionette.

Line 3

Little as Geppetto’s house was, it was neat and comfortable.

Line 4

It was a small room on the ground floor, with a tiny window under the stairway.

Line 5

The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table.

All words in this reading · 47

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a

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From this reading It was a small room on the ground floor, with a tiny window under the stairway.

and

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From this reading As soon as he gets home, Geppetto fashions the Marionette and calls it Pinocchio.

As

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From this reading As soon as he gets home, Geppetto fashions the Marionette and calls it Pinocchio.

bed

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From this reading The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table.

been

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From this reading The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table.

calls

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From this reading As soon as he gets home, Geppetto fashions the Marionette and calls it Pinocchio.

chair

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From this reading The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table.

comfortable

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From this reading Little as Geppetto’s house was, it was neat and comfortable.

could

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From this reading The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table.

fashions

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first

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From this reading The first pranks of the Marionette.

floor

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furniture

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Geppetto

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Geppetto's

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gets

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ground

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have

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he

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home

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house

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From this reading Little as Geppetto’s house was, it was neat and comfortable.

it

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Little

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From this reading Little as Geppetto’s house was, it was neat and comfortable.

Marionette

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much

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neat

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From this reading Little as Geppetto’s house was, it was neat and comfortable.

not

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From this reading The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table.

of

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old

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From this reading The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table.

on

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Pinocchio

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pranks

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From this reading The first pranks of the Marionette.

rickety

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From this reading The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table.

room

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simpler

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small

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soon

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stairway

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table

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the

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tiny

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From this reading It was a small room on the ground floor, with a tiny window under the stairway.

tumble-down

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under

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very

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From this reading The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table.

was

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From this reading Little as Geppetto’s house was, it was neat and comfortable.

window

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From this reading It was a small room on the ground floor, with a tiny window under the stairway.

with

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From this reading It was a small room on the ground floor, with a tiny window under the stairway.

Chapter 3 of The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi holds 78 sentences, grouped into 16 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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.

What does chapter 3 of The Adventures of Pinocchio contain?

Chapter 3 holds 78 sentences of The Adventures of Pinocchio, unabridged, divided into 16 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 3 of The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 78 sentences, grouped into 16 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.

How do I study chapter 3 of The Adventures of Pinocchio?

Work through the 16 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 16 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.

Can chapter 3 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 3 can be played aloud in United States English.

Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.

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Is this the complete text of The Adventures of Pinocchio?

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Project Gutenberg eBook #500, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does The Adventures of Pinocchio take to read?

About 257 minutes of reading across 618 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Adventures of Pinocchio

Words and structures a reader meets early in The Adventures of Pinocchio, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Happened: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Adventures of Pinocchio; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Mastro: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Adventures of Pinocchio; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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