An 18th-Century Anatomical Atlas at the Library of Congress
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
The Library of Congress is a large library.
- A2
Before Halloween, the Library of Congress is showing a book.
- B1
Ahead of Halloween, the Library of Congress is featuring an old book.
- B2
Ahead of Halloween, the Library of Congress is featuring Jacques Gamelin's 1779 anatomical atlas.
- C1
Ahead of Halloween, the Library of Congress is featuring Jacques Gamelin's 1779 anatomical atlas, Nouveau receuil d'ostéologie et de myologie.
- C2
Ahead of Halloween, the Library of Congress is featuring Jacques Gamelin's 1779 anatomical atlas, Nouveau receuil d'ostéologie et de myologie.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- anatomical
- relating to the structure of the body
- accurately
- in a way that is correct and exact
- engraving
- a picture made by cutting a design into a piece of metal or wood and then printing it
- dissection
- the action of cutting open a dead body to study its parts
- various
- many different types of something
- grave
- a place in the ground where a dead person is buried
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Library of Congress: Bibliomania (rare books). Read the original for the full report.