The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (A2 level)

• Mejorar la comprensión lectora en inglés a través de una historia original y accesible.
• Ampliar el vocabulario con palabras y expresiones de uso cotidiano en contexto.
• Reforzar estructuras gramaticales básicas, como el pasado simple, los adjetivos y los conectores.
• Fomentar el gusto por la lectura en otro idioma con un clásico adaptado.
• Ganar confianza al leer en inglés gracias a una narración sencilla y entretenida.
• Acercar la literatura en lengua inglesa a lectores de todas las edades.
• Favorecer la lectura guiada o compartida, en clase o en casa.

1. Aristocracy: a class of people who has a high social rank, property or money.
2. Nickname: an informal name for someone or something, especially a name that your friends and family use to call you.
3. Yards: a unit of measurement equal to three feet or approximately 91.4 centimetres.
4. Triplets: three children born to the same mother at the same time.
5. A carriage: a vehicle with four wheels that is usually pulled by horses and was used mainly in the past.
6. A basin: a container similar to a bowl used for personal hygiene (washing hands/face).
7. A crib: a small bed for a baby or young child with high bars around the sides so that the child cannot fall out.
8. A joke: something like a funny story or trick that is said or done to make people laugh.
9. To itch: have or cause an uncomfortable feeling on the skin that makes you want to rub it with your nails.
10. Cane: a long stick used especially by old, ill, or blind people to help them walk.
11. Size: how large or small something or someone is.
12. Dye: to change the colour of something, normally hair or clothes, using a special liquid.
13. To blame: to say or think that someone or something did something wrong or is responsible for something bad happening.
14. Mannequin: a large model of a human being, used to show clothes in the window of a shop.
15. Costume: clothes typical of a particular country or period of history o clothes used to look like someone or something else for an entertainment, a party, etc.
16. To spank: to hit a child with the hand on the bottom as a punishment.
17. Methuselah: in the Bible, a man who was said to have lived for 969 years.
18. Oatmeal: a soft food made from a type of cereal (oats) boiled in milk or water, eaten hot for breakfast.
19. Guilty: feeling worried or unhappy because you have done something wrong.
20. Unknown: not known or familiar.
21. Marbles: a children’s game played with small, round glass balls that are rolled along the floor.
22. Tops: a toy that spins around a fixed point.
23. Slingshot: a Y-shaped stick with a piece of elastic at the top parts, used especially by children for shooting small stones.
24. Crowd: a large group of people who have come together.
25. A prodigy: someone that is very good at something, usually used when that person very young.
26. Silver: a chemical element that is a valuable shiny, white or grey metal, used for making knives, spoons, jewellery, coins, and decorative objects.
27. Dry-goods: old-fashioned way of saying clothes, pins, threads, etc. used for sewing.
28. Heartbeat: the regular movement or sound that the heart makes.
29. To bow: to move your head or body forward (looking at your feet) especially as a way of showing someone respect or expressing thanks to people.
30. Whiskers: the hair growing on a man’s face, especially the sides and/or the lower part. An old-fashioned way of saying beard or moustache.
31. To take care of: to protect someone or something and give the things that that person or thing needs.
32. Sunrise: the time in the morning when the sun starts to rise in the sky.
33. A hammer: a tool consisting of a piece of metal with a flat end with, usually, a wooden handle, used for hitting things.
34. A nail: a small, thin piece of metal with one pointed end and one flat end that you hit into something with a hammer.
35. A lug: handle-like projection, such as a handle on a container or a nut that holds a wheel in place.
36. John Wilkes Booth: An American actor. He killed the president Abraham Lincoln.
37. Horns: hard or pointed part that grows from the head of some animals or other creatures like devils.
38. Couple: two people who are in a romantic relationship; two things that are together.
39. Achievement: something very good and difficult that you have succeeded in doing.
40. A lieutenant-colonel: the title of an officer of middle/high rank in the armed forces, in between the lieutenant and the colonel.
41. A pity: something that is disappointing or not satisfactory.
42. Embarrassed: feeling ashamed or shy.
43. Revenge: harm done to someone as a punishment for harm that they have done to someone else.