May 2005 | ISBN: 0887511112 | 272 pages | PDF | 4,5 Mb
The three pocketbooks comprising the English Through Pictures
series are the remarkable invention of I.A. Richards and Christine
Gibson, who designed them to help the learner speak, read and write
English in the quickest and clearest possible way – through pictures.
The authors have made a careful selection of the most widely useful
English words, choosing those with the power to define other words, and
have put them to work in key patterns that offer the learner the ability
to communicate successfully in English. Book 1 contains a vocabulary of
250 such words, with an additional 500 developed in Book 2; these 750
words are then used in Book 3 to build a command of 1000 words which, by
their defining power, hold the possibility of understanding as much as
another 20,000 words of English. Throughout English Through Pictures,
responsibility for learning is placed directly on the learner, who from
the very start enjoys the ability to put essential words to work
creating key sentence patterns where meaning is clearly shown in
pictures. These simplified drawings allow learners to focus on the
sentence and to enjoy growing confidence as they successfully take
control of language, with the workbooks in Books 1 and 2 challenging and
reinforcing their growing competence as both speakers and readers.
Motivated and inspired, learners will soon find to their delight that
fluent communication in English – the common language of today’s world –
lies well within their grasp. English Through Pictures has already been
used successfully by millions of learners in more than forty countries.
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