Essential English 2. [antikvár]

Preface Essential English is a course for the teaching of English to foreign students. It is intended priocipally for adults, although it can also be used with younger learners. After working thoroughly through the four books, of which this is the second, the student should have a sound mastery of the basic structures and sentence patterns of the language, a limited but very practical vocabulary, and a familiarity both with everyday colloquial speech and with more literary forms of the language. The grammatical material is introduced progressively and systematically and each lesson contains copious drill material and exercises. The vocabulary—about 500 words in each book—is introduced naturally as the lessons unfold, and a complete word list, together with phonetic transcriptions, will be found at the end of each book. One reason for the success and popularity which Essential English has enjoyed for many years is surely the interest in the "characters"—Mr. Priestley, his family and his group of students. This provides the framework for the course, and almost without realising it the learner becomes absorbed in the personalities and everyday lives of Lucille, Pedro, Olaf, Jan, Frieda—and, of course Hob, Through their eyes we encounter not only the problems of learning English but also those of living in an unfamiliar country. In spite of the "new look" of this new edition of my father's course, it remains fundamentally the same as previous editions, and I believe that teachers who have been using them will quickly feel completely at home with it. Some of the material—particularly that dealing with everyday life in Britain—urgently needed bringing