Basic English Books
(A SELECTION)
From The Basic English Publishing Company, London
GENERAL
Basic English. A general account of the system, its history, and its purposes.
Basic English Versus the Artificial Languages.
Basic for Science. With the special word-list for general science and those for certain branches.
Basic for Geology. With a special word-list.
Basic for Economics. With a special word-list.
Basic English and Grammatical Reform. A discussion of the place of Basic English in general education.
"The Basic News," No. 10.
TEACHING BOOKS AND MATERIALS
The Basic Teacher. A full and detailed work chiefly for older European learners-and see Phonograph Records
(2), further down in this part of the list.
(May be had, in addition, in German and Italian.)
Basic Step by Step. A simple teaching-book giving the 850 words in 30 groups, with reading-material, notes, and pictures.
(May be had, in addition, in Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.)
The ABC of Basic English. Gives an account of the structure of the language in an ordered way.
(May be had, in addition, in Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.)
The Basic Words: a detailed account of their uses. All the different ways in which the 850 words
may be used in Basic English made clear by very short examples and by French and German words.
(Latest printing, 1964.)
Basic by Examples. One representative statement or question for every use,
inside the limits of the system, of every one of the 850 words.
Basic Picture Talks. Pictures, with questions and answers about them,
designed to make clear some representative expansions of sense - for schoolroom use.
Basic by Isotype. Isotype teaching-pictures for international use.
Everyday Basic. A wide range of everyday examples.
Word-Stress and Sentence-Stress. A guide for teachers of Basic English, together with
a discussion from the point of view of "phonetics" (the science of language sounds).
Phonograph records. (1) A two-sided record giving a talk about the sounds and
a reading of the Basic words by J. C. Catford; and (2) A two-sided record of readings
from The Basic Teacher.
Wall Pictures. (1) Words of Direction and Position; (2) Operations; (3) Acts; (4) Country;
(5) By the Sea; and (6)-two Pictures- Present, Past and Future.
The "Basic Way" Reading Cards. 45 cards for use with "The Basic Way to English", Book 1.
See under From Other Book Companies, further down the list.
FOR THE YOUNG
Black Beauty, A. Sewell. With pictures.
Gulliver in Lilliput, Jonathan Swift. With pictures.
Jackanapes, Juliana Horatia Ewing.
Keawe's Bottle ("The Bottle Imp"), R. L. Stevenson.
Pinocchio, C. Collodi. With pictures.
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe.
Stories for the Young, Leo Tolstoi.
Stories from France, Perrault.
Stories from Hans Andersen.
("Our Changing Times" books)
Across the Isthmus of Panama. Schoolboys of Early Times
All About Motion Pictures. (I and II).
Electric Power at Work. Ships of Yesterday.
Fireside Stories. The Thunder Bird.
The First Virginians. To Far Cathay.
Great Discoveries. Traders of Santa Fe.
How Men Have Kept Their Records. The White Man Comes to New York.
Late Night Special. Wings Away.
The Post Bag. Wires Round the Earth.
The Potter's Wheel.
FOR OLDER READERS
Arms and the Man, Bernard Shaw.
A Basic Astronomy, S. L. Salzedo.
The Basic St. John. This book of The Bible put into Basic English by the Rev. Edwin W. Smith.
Between the Lines, Old Greek Stories in New Dress, W. Repton.
Carl and Anna, Leonhard Frank.
The Chemical History of a Candle, Michael Faraday.
Death in High Society, Inez Holden. Short Stories.
Electricity and Magnetism, H. S. Hatfield.
European Science, H. S. Hatfield.
The Gold Insect ("The Gold Bug"), Edgar Allan Poe.
International Picture Language, Otto Neurath. An account of the Iso-type system.
Japanese Stories, Lafcadio Hearn.
Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare. With Basic parallel and notes by A. P. Rossiter.
Mr. Midshipman Easy, Captain Marryat.
The Outlook of Science, J. B. S. Haldane.
The Potter's Art, W. Repton.
Science and Well-Being, J. B. S. Haldane.
The Three Signs, Hawthorne, Irving, and Poe. Three short stones.
The Time Machine, H. C. Wells.
The Two Friends, Ivan Tourgenieff.
Uncle Silas, J. Sheridan LeFanu.
From Other Book Companies
The Bible in Basic English
(Cambridge University Press).
The New Testament in Basic English
(Cambridge University Press).
The General Basic English Dictionary. Giving the sense in Basic English of over 20,000 English words
(Evans Brothers Limited).
The Science Dictionary in Basic English. Giving the sense of over 25,000 words and word-groups
taken from all branches of science. First put out in 1965, this work is an addition to the
list of books in print at C. K. Ogden's death.
(Evans Brothers Limited) (Published in the United States under the title
The Basic Science Dictionary by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1966.)
The Basic Way to English, Books 1-4, in ordered stages, with pictures, and separate Teachers' Books 1-4
(Evans Brothers limited).
The Basic Way Reading Books, 1 and 2
(Evans Brothers Limited).
From Basic to Wider English, Books 1-6. Latest printing, with new pictures and other changes, 1968
(Evans Brothers Limited). Six 70 page teaching booklets.
A Christmas Story (`A Christmas Carol"), Charles Dickens
(Evans Brothers Limited).
The Roots of Science, J. A. Lauwerys
(Evans Brothers Limited).
The Sea and Its Living Things, H. S. Hatfield
(Evans Brothers limited).
Stories from the Odyssey
(Evans Brothers Limited).
Treasure Island, R. L. Stevenson
(Evans Brothers Limited).
The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley
(Evans Brothers Limited).
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