Practical English

TROUBLESOME WORDS

We had roast beef for dinner.

They spent the week end with their uncle.
Mary and I are going for a walk.

A visitor came just before noon.

We want to go up on Black mountain Saturday.

That's all right.

What do you want?

You may take them any time you want to.

We study geography in our school.

We had a test in arithmetic this morning.

We shall have lessons in history.

We made the picture in the drawing class.
The teacher will give a test in spelling.

He read it in the reading class.

We go to school every day.

Please give me the book.

I don't know where the book is.
The boy caught the ball.

That isn't the right book.

I saw a squirrel this morning.

TROUBLESOME WORDS FOR STUDY

To Too Two

Yesterday my brother and I went to the ball game.
Bob, the boy next door, went to the game, too.
My brother bought two tickets, and Bob bought one.

There are

I asked my father

I like

big trees in our yard.

put up a swing. go up very high in a swing. swing,

My friends like

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I did not know whether there would be school to-day.
When there is no school, the signal is given.

There are some little chickens here in the basket.
If you are quiet, you can hear them chirping.

The forms of action words that are given for practice in different parts of the book are brought together here for the convenience of the teacher.

Exercise

The sentences given for illustration should be read aloud until the forms are familiar to the pupils. The blanks are to be filled with the words that are given above the exercise.

NOTE. Notice that the form that is used with he or she or it usually ends with s or es. We say I come and he comes.

A Catch Game

Each pupil may make three sentences, each of which contains a blank. He may make sentences that he thinks will catch some pupil. These sentences may be similar to those given in the exercises, but of course the same sentences should not be used. The teacher may call upon a pupil to go to the blackboard to write the three sentences that he has made, and the pupil may call upon another pupil to come to the blackboard to fill the blanks. The game is to catch the pupil who comes to fill the blank. The same pupil should not be called twice until all the pupils have been to the blackboard.

Each of the following groups of words may be studied in the same manner. The game may be used with each group at the option of the teacher.