(Front cover) English Through Pictures
Book 2

THE WAY TO MORE ENGLISH
Here is a second book of ENGLISH THROUGH PICTURES, building out from the language of the first. With the help of pictures and footnotes, the learner will see what every new word, as it comes in, is doing. In addition to teaching the language, the book puts together important ideas handle down from the past and key questions facing all of us today.

I. A. Richards & Christine Gibson
A Washington Square Press Book

(Forward)
This is a new book in a series whose English Through Pictures, Book 1 has been used by millions, with the help of First Steps in Reading English. Book 2 keeps in mind that its readers will have many different needs. Some will want more English to help them to find work, some as a step on the way to higher education, some for business, travel or better living -- and some because English opens for them a window with a wider outlook on the world.

We have tried in designing English Through Pictures, Book 1 to serve all these needs. However, our first care has been the ordering of the teaching itself. What comes next must everywhere be supported by what has gone before and must make ready for what is to come. Too much too quickly -- without examples or time enough to compare and to work out the relations of part with part -- is the chief cause of broken English.

As with English Through Pictures, Book 1, this book can be used in many ways: as a self-teacher, a schoolbook, a blueprint or design for recording, filmstrips, sound motion pictures and television.. Its power to each user will be much increased as all these supports are developed. It is the purpose of this book to supply starting points from which people an go out in different directions as their different interests take them. We hope it will be a book of beginnings.
Christine M. Gibson
I.A. Richards

ENGLISH THROUGH PICTURES, BOOK 2
Copyright © 1957, by Language Research, Inc.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 52-38412

(Contents) CONTENTS
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ENGLISH THROUGH PICTURES
Page 1

WORDS IN THIS BOOK
And in
English Through Pictures, Book 1
Page 237


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(Text) ENGLISH
THROUGH PICTURES
BOOK 2

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"I am here"         is the first statement in English Through Pictures, Book 1 (EP 1)

That books uses about five hundred words in English in a great number of different ways.

Using those same words, together with about the same number of new words and more pictures, this books (EP 2) goes farther into the language.

This new books uses about a thousand words of English

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use: when you make use of something you use it.
language: all the words used by persons taking or writing to one another.


FUTURE	PRESENT	PAST
Will use	use(s)	used

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Are you a man or a woman or a girl or a boy? What is your country? Is the country where you live now the country of your birth?

               [ labeled map outline of several countries ]

Do you see on this page a map of the country where you live? Is it Germany, the Philippines, Brazil, Australia, Kenya, or some other country?

There are millions of readers of EP 1. The book is used in almost every country.

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country: land under one government.
birth: coming into being (see pages 4, 5 and 7.)
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almost: the shorter line here is almost as long as the other.
"almost every country" most countries
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(End of text)

John Amos Comenius (1592-1670) was, so far as we know, the first man to use pictures in books written for beginning readers and for beginners in a second language. (It was Latin.) He was to have been the first head of Harvard College, where this book is being written, but could not come.

Comenius began his reader, Orbis Pictus (Nurnberg, 1657), with this picture.
    [Man making a point to a child.]

The teacher is saying: "Come, Boy, learn to be wise."
And the boy asks: "What does this mean, to be wise?"
The teacher answers: "To understand rightly, to do rightly, and to speak out rightly all that is necessary."

The teacher gives the boy an answer though he knows that no one can become wise all in a minute. All our lives through, we go on learning how to understand rightly, to do what is right, and to speak out at the right time. See the size of the question the boy is asking.

In this book we have not tried to give any answers, but only to bring together some of the more important ideas and facts needed if we are to ask ourselves what we should know and think and feel and desire and do. To have been wise is to have known, thought, felt, desired and done as was best. But there are many different ways of knowing, thinking, feeling, desiring and doing. Which are the best? That is, the question. Our lives are our attempts to find an answer, and language is the most important of all our instruments for this purpose.

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desire: have a desire for.
          will desire           desire(s)         desired
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(Words) WORDS IN THIS BOOK
and in
English Through Pictures, Book 1


Words marked (v) are used as verbs (statement-making words). Only the basic verbs are used in Book 1. This book adds the chief parts of 144 other widely used statement-making words.

(Only words taught in this book carry page numbers.)


A
a, an abacus 168 able about above   84 account across act 119 act (v) 146 add (v) 169 addition after afternoon 151 again age    5 ago    9 air airplane alive   33 all almost     3 alone 147 alphabet   31 always   66 among 125 amount and	angle animal another answer answer (v)     4 any     4 apartment   20 apple area 174 arm art 144 art gallery 145 artist 145 as   80 ask (v)     4 asleep 110 astronomer 208 astronomy 208 at attempt attempt (v)   56 attraction automatic   82 automobile awake   82 away   29
B baby back bad bag ball bank banking barometer   84 basin basket be	bean 127 beautiful because become (v)   32 bed bedroom bee   48 beetle   48 before begin (v)   58

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W
wait (v)   43 waiter 194 waiting waitress 194 walk walk (v)   69 walking wall want (v)   66 warm warm (v)   90 warming wash wash (v) 137 washcloth washing waste   72 watch watch (v)   66 water wave way we weak   32 weather week weight well 12, 171 west wet what wheat   34 wheel when whenever	where whether   47 which while 111 whistle white who why wide wife   22 will willing 167 wind window wing   48 winter wire   43 wise   83 with within 127 without   32 woman wood wool word work work (v)   27 working world   14 worm wrist   93 write (v)   51 writer writing wrong
Y yard year yellow yes	yesterday you young your
Z zero     247


(Inside back cover)
The LANGUAGE THROUGH PICTURES Series
This small but growing list of books is prepared at Harvard University under the editorial supervision of Language Research, Inc. The acceptance and use of these books are phenomenal. (English Through Pictures, Book 1, is now well into its second million.)


FIRST STEPS IN READING ENGLISH
A FIRST WORKBOOK OF ENGLISH
ENGLISH THROUGH PICTURES, BOOK 1
ENGLISH THROUGH PICTURES, BOOK 2


(Back cover)
The Way to
More English

Millions of people began to learn English by using ENGLISH THROUGH PICTURES, BOOK 1 (W-1) and FIRST STEPS IN READING ENGLISH (W-2).

This new BOOK 2 goes on to thousand-word English.

As you read this book, you will see that language is an instrument for thought and that you are not only learning more English but learning other things at the same time.
A BOOK FOR TODAY ABOUT YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW.
[English Through Pictures books have at least two editions. This earlier edition, 1957, consists of picture books I and II and two workbooks. Just under five hundred words are introduced in Book I and about 522 words in Book II for a total of about 1000 words.   A later edition, 1973, in three volumes covering 750 words, 250 words each, and include a workbook incorporated in volumes I and II.]   And recently, 2005, Pippin Publishers.