Three Trains [antikvár]

The aim of the Practical Readers is to teach overseas students somé of the simplest trade and technical words in English. Each book of the series is a story, and it is hoped in this way to make the work of learning the new words easy and interesting. Although these books were originally written for technical students, they may be read with profit and pleasure by others; for the new words are useful outside the workshop, and are not difficult to learn. In each book of the series, groups of words connected with various trades (such as Building and Electricity) are taught as new words. A list of these is given at the end of each book. An attempt has been made to grade these technical words so that the easiest are introduced first, and lead gradually on to a more advanced vocabulary. In Three Trains, the third book of the boys' section, it is assumed that the student already knows about 1,100 of the commonest English words, as taught and used, for example, in Dr. West's New Method Reader 3. It is alsó assumed that the technical words of Readers 1 and 2 of this series are known. In this vocabulary a story has been written introducing a further 95 technical words. A classified list of these words, arranged according to trades, is given at the end of the book.