The Linguaphone English Course Book One 灵格风英语.doc

ENGLISH COURSE ONE Preface An ideal system of instruction for the learning of a foreign language should fulfill the following essential conditions: It should be suitable for private or self-tuition as well as for class-work, and should conform to the best methods of modern language instruction. It should impart a practical conversational knowledge of everyday subjects, while at the same time it should also convey, in a clear and concise manner, the essentials of grammar and syntax. It should enable the learner to think in the foreign language, without any process of translation, by training him from the very outset to associate the foreign words he encounters with the objects or actions they denote. He will thus acquire the ability to speak the language naturally and instinctively—in the same way as he learned his own language when a child. Finally, the learner should be taught to speak the foreign language with correct accent and intonation. The Linguaphone Method of teaching languages fulfils all these requirements. Linguaphone Courses are now published in more than twenty languages and are in use in practically every country, while leading Universities, Colleges and Schools throughout the world have incorporated them as a regular feature of their language tuition. The English course The Linguaphone English Course is equally suitable for children and adults, for entire beginners and for those who have a theoretical knowledge of the language and wish to become proficient in the spoken language. The Course consists of descriptive talks and conversations. The text is in easy-flowing and perfectly natural idiomatic language, which would be used by educated people under similar circumstances. Practical grammar is introduced into the text of each lesson and is absorbed by the student as he goes along. The illustrations in the main textbook, which have been specially drawn by the artists William Stobbs, Jean Graziani and Suzanne Hall, form an integral part of the Course