(Front cover)
    ENGLISH Through Pictures Book I, II
    and A First, Second Workbook of English
    I. A. Richards & Christine Gibson
     See the Picture -- Learn the Word
    The Fast New Way to Read and Write English

    (Forward)
    ENGLISH THROUGH PICTURES BOOK I and
    A FIRST WORKBOOK OF ENGLISH
    is one book in a language series for beginner published by Pocket Books. Other languages in this series on which books have been published are French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
        Here you will find a small careful selection of the most widely useful English words put into key patters so that you will be able to quickly master and apply them. these common words in their common sentence forms are made clear to you page by page with t he help of pictures.
        For study of the written language, a workbook of exercises, graded step by step to the teaching sequence, has been provided to challenge and reinforce the learning of tall lexical and structural elements while providing enrichment reading and writing within the learner's grasp. The new edition of English Through Pictures Book I assembles for the first time in one volume A First Workbook of English bound together with t h first half of the teaching texts. This new single volume parallels filmstrips and recordings of the same material as well as a series of sound motion pictures graded for use with it.
        Because this new edition now combines the first half of the previous Book I with the Workbook I to form the new Book I, this volume contains a vocabulary of 250 words; the 500-word vocabulary is completed in English Through Pictures Book II.
        For students using the book we suggest also English Through Pictures book II and English Through Pictures Book III as well as First Steps in Reading English.
        To avoid confusion over possible duplication of page numbers, please note that the text of English Through Pictures Book I is presented in pages 1-121; the exercise section repeats the page numbers of the original Workbook I which are 1-126.

    (Preface - in 41 languages)
    ENGLISH THROUGH PICTURES

        This book will teach you the first steps of English. It gives you about 500 important words in sentences, with the meaning shown through pictures. Read each page like this: 
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        The sentences will take on meaning for you as you compare them with the rest of the accompanying pictures, page by page. The load on your memory is kept light. All your attention can be given to seeing how changes in the sentences go along with the changes in the meaning. Learning English this way is more like play than hard work.     so far as possible, keep your own language out of your mind while you are using this book. the pictures will give you the meanings. Translating the sentences into your mother tongue at this stage only makes learning harder. Recording are available which will speak the sentences to you, with intervals for you to repeat after the speaker. If you have to work alone and do not have these recordings, it is best to work through writing and wait for the pronunciation until you have help. Study two or three pages together until you can give the sentences that go with the pictures. When you are forming the sentences do not rely on your memory alone : try to understand in English what the pictures say. If you do tis you will be thinking in English from the very start and that is the way to a mastery of the language.     When you have worked through thirty pages of the book in this manner, test your knowledge by answering in English the questions on pages 31, 32 and 33. Compare your answers with those given on page 34. Further questions and answers are provided at intervals throughout the book.     For information concerning recordings, workbooks, film strips and motion pictures to support this text, write to
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    (Text, pages 1-121)
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	With accompanying stick figures, questions and answers.
    (Workbook)
    A First Workbook in English
    CONTENTS
    Preface
    A First Workbook of English    . . 1-106
    Answers109-126
    Index129-133
    PREFACE
          The workbook exercises are graded to confirm and support the sentence sequences in the first 121 pages of the text. They apply the teaching of vocabulary and structure in simple problem situations which the beginner in English can solve, stage by stage, for himself. He may then check his growing competence by answers provided.
          The workbook should be used ...

      ... with enjoyment.                 -- Christine Gibson
    (Index)

          The number after each word indicates the page of the text on which the word first occurs. (Note that page numbers in this Index do not refer to page numbers in the workbook.}

    WORDS IN THIS BOOK
    A
    a
    an
    after
    again
    air
    airplane
    all
    and
    apple
    arm
    at
    B
    baby
    back
    bad
    basket
    be
    between
    bird
    bit
    body
    boiling
    bone
    book
    bookshelf
    before
    begin
    bottle
    box
    boy
    branch
    bread
    breadbox
    breath
    brother
    building
    but
    butter
    C
    cheese
    chest
    chin
    clear
    clock
    clothing
    coat
    cold
    come
    cord
    cover
    cow
    cup
    W
     
    wall
    warm
    water
    wave
    way
    we
    what
    when
    whenever
    where
    which
    who
    why
    wide
    will
    wind
    window
    with
    woman
     
    Y
    yard
    yes
    you
    young
    your

    (Back cover, Book I)
    The Shortest Way to English
    with Prefaces in 41 languages
    (list of languages, 90 pages)
      Here is a book for learning English in the quickest and clearest way -- through pictures. This revised edition of the well-known direct method of learning simple English provides in one volume the first half of the original BOOK I with A FIRST WORKBOOK OF ENGLISH. This combination enables the reader to test his grasp of the material by doing written exercises and checking them against the included answers.

    (Back cover, Book II)
    The Shortest Way to English
      Here is a book for learning English in the quickest and clearest way -- through pictures. First study the widely used English words depicted in these pages, then test your grasp of the material by doing the written exercies.

      For those with no prior knowlege of the langauge, or for anyone in the early stages of reading, this book will make learning seem more like an amusement than a chore.

    Pippin Publishers