Basic English Institute
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THE EASIEST WAY TO ENGLISH
Here is a book for learning English in the quickest and easiest way -- through pictures. The English in this book is Basic English. Basic English has only 850 words, the English words which will together do the most work, say the most things, meet the most needs. For persons who have no knowldge of English at all, or for boys and girls learning reading, this book puts words into action, and makes learning seem more like amusement than hard word.
NOTE
This book has three purposes:
1. Teaching English by the quickest way -- even to presons who at the start have no knowledge of it whatever.
2. Helping boys and girls to whom early steps in reading are hard going.
3. Making the business of language learning in general brighter.
The words come back again and again. From the list at the end (pages 281 - 286) you will see when every word come in first.
Seeing what they say in these pages is more like amusement that work.
In reading a page, oo like this
- [sketch of top left to top right, then bottom left to bottom right]
For a full account of Basic English, see Basic English and its Uses by I.A. Richards (W.W.Norton, 1943).
In the Basic English Teaching Pictures, produced by "The March of Time," you will see living actors doing and talking about the things the matchstick men and women do in the pages of this book.
This opening note itself is in Basic.
I. A. Richards
Body of Book
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Segment A, pp 1-34 ,
Segment B, pp 35-57 ,
Segment C, pp 58-121 ,
Segment D, pp 122-149 ,
Segment E, pp 150-174 ,
Segment F, pp 175-194 ,
Segment G, pp 195-212 ,
Segment H, pp 213-240 ,
Segment I, pp 241-280 ,
Words in this Book, pp 281-286
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277 Operators (verbs) , 278 Tenses , 280 Comparisons , Words in this book 281 282 284 286
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