English 901 1. [antikvár]

PREFACE English 901, a course for aduit students of English as a second language, contains material for beginning and intermediate levels of study. The series consists of textbooks, workbooks, tape recordings, graded readers and a teacher's manual. The title, English 901, was specially chosen to emphasize the basic relatiohship to English 900, the originál edition in American English. The 900 base sentences (an extra sentence has not been added) presented in the six textbooks cover basic structures and a basic vocabulary of the English language. They are introduced at the rate of fifteen in each study unit, or a hundred and fifty in each book, and are numbered consecutively from Base Sentence 1 in the first unit of Book One to Base Sentence 900 in the last unit of Book Six. These structures provide "building blocks" for all the material studied in the series, and there are, on an average, four variation sentences for each base sentence. As part of his mastery of English, therefore, the student practises and learns approximately 3,600 variation sentences in addition to the basic 900 patterns. There are ten teaching units in each textbook in the series. Each unit contains a group of fifteen base sentences related to a particular topic or real-life situation. In Book One of the series, a typical unit begins with the presentation of the fifteen Base Sentences together with the Intonation patterns. Questions and Answers then give the student practice in pairing and matching the base sentences into conversational form. Substitution Drills introduce the variation sentences, using vocabulary and grammatical substitution techniques. These early sections of the unit provide the pronunciation practice and drill material needed for the mastery of language forms. The Conversation section consists of short dialogues giving the student the opportunity to practise the new lesson material in informál conversation in the classroom. Exercises provide further oral and written work on the material introduced in the unit. Units in the succeeding books in the series (Books Two to Six) contain Base Sentences, Intonation practice, Substitution Drills, Conversation and Exercises, and, in addition, certain new features. Beginning with Book Two, a Reading Practice section is added to each unit, and beginning with Book Three, a Verb Study section. Books Four, Five and Six include Partiápation Drills for classroom use, and Book Six presents Grammar Revision materials and Grammar Revision Exercises. Each textbook includes a Key to the exercises, and a Word Index which lists in alphabetical order every word introduced in the book,