READINGS in OGDEN's BASIC ENGLISH
Examples written in Basic English

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This reading section of Ogden's Basic English has well over 1,000 pages, if printed.
Many web pages are book chapters each of a dozen printed pages.
The Institute was 230 more pages. many are in Basic.

BOOKS
• Basic Dictionary of Science -- Introduction
• Basic for Business   by S.L. Salzedo . Example business letters.  partial
• Basic for Economics   by L. W. Lockhart .   90 pages of 139
• The Bible in Basic English -- New Testiment plus over half Old Testament books.
  Links for Bible in Basic English -- many web sites.
• Basic Rules of Reason by I.A. Richards - a course in Logic
• Debabelization, Introduction
• General History in Outline and Story   by E. H. Carter - 278 pages
• Outline of Science   by J.B.S. Haldane - 21 pages of 143 *
  
  FICTION
• Carl and Anna   by Leonhard Frank, a sophisticated German novel. -- 144 pages
• Death in High Society   by Inez Holden. short stories, 105 pages *
• Gulliver in Lilliput   by Swift; retold by Hodges; translation by Basic English Institute.
• Arms and the Man   by G. B. Shaw, translated by L. W. Lockwood, a humourous play.-- 102 pages *
• The Gold Insect   by E.A. Poe -- 81 pages *
• Pinocchio, by C. Collodi, translated by ___  
• Stories from Hans Andersen.   
  The Little Match Girl
  
  
  RELIGION
• The Analects - selections from the collected works of Confucius -- 2 pages
• Book of Mormon -- 4 pages
• Hebrew Scriptures -- over half
• Koran -- 6 pages
• Bible in Basic English, New Testament. -- complete, 265 pages
• Bible in Basic English, Old Testament. -- many books, c400. *
• The Jefferson Bible, -- Thomas Jefferson -- 32 of 92 pages.. *
  
  SHORT STORIES
• The Little Match Girl
• Cat in the Rain
• The Garden Party
• A Basic Phonetic Reader - a few pages of many stories.

  Tom Thumb Crusoe Gives Help to Friday Jerry's New Year Florizel and Perdita Gulliver Puts an End to a War The Whistle The Strange Behavior of Mr. Legrand       Keawe's Bottle Hoichi The Biwa-Player Building the Ark

  Discovery of the Egypt's Gold The Hotel League of Nations and War The Kellog Agreement The Sun's System Trade Under Henry VII Weight and Mass The Story of Judas Money and Purcasing Power Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince

• Learning Basic English - Nine short translations, side-by-side
• Basic to Wider English - 8 letters about an English family. *
• Basic English: International Second Language ; Section Three : Examples
  Part One : GOVERNMENT
  1. The Gettysburg Address       Abraham Lincoln
  2. The Atlantic Charter and the Prime Minister's Statement
  3. The Rights of Man       H.G.Wells
  Part Two : SCIENCE
  1. "On Scales" from Possible Worlds       J.B.S. Haldane
  2. From "The Sea and Its Living Things"   H.Stafford Hatfield
  3. "Evolutions" from The Growth of Science   A.P.Rossiter
  4. Basic English and the British Standards Institution
  5. From "General History in Outline and Story"   E. H. Carter (See full above)
  Part Three : THE BIBLE.   words for Verse and Bible
  1. Note from The Bible in Basic English
  2. The Testing of Job (Job, 1, 2)
  3. The Birth of Christ (Matthew, 2)
  4. Jesus Goes to Jerusalem (Mark, 11)
  Part Four : FICTION
  1. From Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  2. From Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
  3. From Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The System of Basic English : Examples

  Radio Everyday Political

  From Crusoe Comes to His Island From The Future of Basic by H. G. Wells From Everyday Basic English

• Beginner's Reading Exercises are in the textbooks :
  The Basic Teacher
  Basic Step by Step
  
  THEORY and PRACTICE of BASIC ENGLISH
• The ABC of Basic English
• Basic By Examples
• Basic By Isotype
• Basic Step by Step
• Basic English -- A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar
  Part II. A Short Guide to Basic English
  
  1. What is Basic English?
  2. Basic as an International Language
  3. How the 850 Words do their Work
  4. Basic as an Instrument of Thought
  5. The Learning of Basic
  6. The Teaching of Basic
  7. Basic for Science
  8. Basic for Business
  9. Twelve Years Work, 1927-1939
  10. The Future.
• C. K. Ogden : A Collective Memoir, Part C.
  Basic English and Its Value for Science
  Basic English for the Social Sciences
  Basic English in Literature
• Learning Basic English - Ch 5, Translations by I.A. Richards.
• Adult Education - part II
  
  Online
• Ryota's Daybook
  
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  About this Page: Readings -- List of readings written in Basic English on this website.
  Last updated : April 28, 2008. -- add Cat in the Rain

  August 10, 2007 -- add Analects
  November 25, 2006 -- add Basic for Business, Death in High Society, Basic Rules of Reason
  September 17, 2006 -- add Outline of Science, Koran

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