JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (Level Starter)

In Hamburg, Germany, Professor Otto Lidenbrock comes home with an old Icelandic book. In it there is a message about a journey to the centre of the Earth.

Can Lidenbrock and Axel and their Icelandic guide, Hans, find the centre of the Earth? And can they all get home alive after their many underground adventures?

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH

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Vocabulary:

professor: an important teacher who also studies a lot

nephew: your sister's or brother's son

scientist: a person who studies the natural world

paper: you write on this

secret: something that you don't tell to everybody

message: you write this to someone

sure: when you feel that something is true

fire: this is hot, and it burns

backwards: beginning at the last letter and going to the first letter

uncle: your father's or mother's brother

crater: a big, wide hole

shadow: a dark shape that the sun makes on things

fall: to go down suddenly

centre: the part in the middle

Earth: we live on this

volcano: a mountain that fire and rocks sometimes come from

fiancée: the woman that a man wants to marry

plan: when you get something ready to do later; to get something ready to do later

journey: they you go far

marry: to make someone your husband or wife

luggage: bags and things that you take when you go on a journey

ship: you use a ship to go across the water

sail: to go across the water

storm: a lot of rain and very bad weather

mountain: a big hill

science: the study of the natural world

guide: a person (or thing) that shows or tells people where to go

food: you eat this

erupt: when rocks and fire come out of a volcano

top: the highest part of something

light: a thing that helps you to see in the dark

bottom: the lowest part of something

hole: an opening in something that you can look through or go through

sign: something that hows you something important

climb: to go up or down using your hands and feet

compass: something that shows you north and help you see where to go

lamp: a thing that helps you to see in the dark

tunnel: a long hole that goes through or under something

crystal: a beautiful stone

wall: the side of a tunnel

small: little

worried: not happy about something and thinking a lot about it.

follow: to go after something or somebody

stream: a small river

break: to make something stop working

cave: a big natural room under the Earth

underground: under the Earth

raft: a small ships made from trees

monster: an animal that is very bad to look at

fight: to hit again and again

land: the part of the Earth that is not the sea

cloud: a big white or grey thing that rain comes from

lightning: the light in the sky when there is storm

explode: to break suddenly with a big noise

rock: a very big stone

mastodon: a type of elephant from five million years ago

ground: we walk on this

knife: a sharp tool used for cutting something

letter: we write with these, there are 26 of them in English.

gunpowder: powder that explodes

blow up: to break into small pieces noisily

light: to give fire to something

waterfall: where water falls far down over rocks

lava: the hot liquid that comes out when a volcano erupts

world: where we all live; people live in lots of different countries in the world

language: people say or write things with this

hero: a person who does something important or good