Stories from many lands [antikvár]

the bridge series The Bridge Series offers interesting reading matter for the students of English as a second or foreign language who have reached a stage between the graded supplementary reader and full English. Having enjoyed a number of books in the Simplified English Series such a student is ready for something more challenging. The Books in the Bridge Series are moderately simplified in vocabulary and often slightly reduced in length. Nearly all retain the syntax of the originál writers. This has the dual advantage of giving practice in understanding more advanced sentence patterns and making it possible to keep the originál flavour of the book. Of intermediate difficulty between the Simplified English Series and the unrestricted English of literature, the Bridge Series books contain little of vocabulary or idiom that is not immediately valuable to the fairly advanced learner, and we hope that they will prove throughly enjoyable to read and study for their own sakes. Technical No te The vocabulary of the Simplified English Series is the 2,000 words of the General Service List (Interim Report on Vocabulary Selection) and there is a degree of structure control. In the Bridge Series words outside the commonest 7,000 (in Thorndike and Lorge: A Teacher's Handbook of 30,000 Words, Columbia University, 1944) have usually been replaced by commoner and more generally useful words. Words used which are outside the first 3,000 of the list are explained in a glossary and are so distributed throughout the book that they do not occur at a greater density than 25 per running 1,000 words. v