English Through Pictures, Book 2

(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

(Text) ENGLISH
THROUGH PICTURES
BOOK 2

"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

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.

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.

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, 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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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.)

(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.

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