Basic English for beginners Creative Commons License by hazelcaragay

Language: English

Level (?) : Pre-Intermediate

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These basic English lessons provide the most important learning points for beginning level English learners. Use these 25 short lessons to study for tests, review basic English essentials, or check your understanding of the basics. Starting at the beginning, the course introduces the learner, in a series of graded Steps, to the whole of the grammar and vocabulary of Basic, and to most of the Idioms and expanded senses that the system allows. It takes him to a stage at which he can readily perfect his command of Basic through practice and reading, and, with the aid of The General Basic English Dictionary, should be able to follow the sense of any ordinary text in wider English. INTRODUCTION 1. Nature 2. Purpose 3. Course 4. Procedure 5. Pronunciation 6. Geographical 7. In Your Language 8. Hear Pronunciation The Nature of Basic English Let us be clear at the start what Basic English is. It is a highly compact and serviceable unit of the English language, in the sense that men may express themselves In It for a wide variety of purposes and that it already possesses an extensive literature, it is also a self-contained unit, a language in miniature which may well solve the problem of International communication. Moreover, since it is simple but not distorted English, and since it selects for attention the most essential words, uses, and grammar, it is the best foundation for any wider study of the language. For a foreigner bent on complete mastery of English, the sky's the limit; a lifetime may be spent in studying its finer points. But the first step, whatever one's ultimate goal may be, is to learn enough English to be able to express oneself in it freely and with confidence. Basic achieves this limited objective with the greatest possible economy of time and effort. The student may get a bird's-eye view of the task before him by looking at the Word List printed on the single sheet which forms the frontispiece of this book. With these 850 words and 50 of the growing number of terms which are more or less International, he need never be at a loss. The selection is the outcome of a comprehensive and systematic survey of the language, which disclosed among other important facts that the numerous complex verbs of English could be covered with the help of sixteen simple operators and two auxiliaries. It is not based on the statistics of word-counters, nor Is It merely a random collection of useful and common words. Each word has its place in the system because of the work it will do in combination with the rest. In this way alone has it been possible to produce an effective vocabulary of English within so small a compass.

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