EVERYDAY ENGLISH

BOOK ONE

PART ONE

1. ORAL LESSON

LITTLE TEACHER

Look at the picture on the opposite page. Why is it called "Little Teacher"? How many children do you see? About how old do you think each one is? Are they in school or at home? Tell what each one is doing. Which one is playing teacher? Which is the youngest? What is he doing? What toys are there in the room? Which toys are placed as if they were in the play? What is the cat doing? Is she in the game? What else do you see in the picture?

Let us answer each of these questions again, putting each answer into a good sentence. Let one pupil answer the first These answers will

question, another the second, and so on.

give the story of the picture.

Let several pupils tell the whole story.

tell how they have played school at home.

Let other pupils

In telling these

stories, stand erect, hold the head up, face the class, and speak distinctly.

2. WRITTEN LESSON

This is to be a written exercise. about the picture in Lesson 1.

In writing, always leave a margin of one inch on the left side of the sheet. Write your name in full in the upper right-hand corner, use only one side of the sheet, and write as plainly as you can.

Let each pupil write a sentence about the picture. Let these be read aloud. When each is read, decide whether it

is a sentence or not.

Put a few of the sentences on the

board. Then let each pupil write five sentences about the picture. Begin each with a capital. Let some of them be read aloud, and decide which are sentences.

Your written page should look like this:

George Lawrence

Sittle Jeacher

Teddy Bear is raising his paw because he has a question to ask. The doll in the armchair looks sleepy. What do you suppose the baby is thinking about? He has never played school before and thinks it is good fun.

Sentences

3. LANGUAGE LESSON

A sentence is a group of words making complete sense. Some groups of words make only incomplete sense. following are not sentences:

1. In the picture

2. When the dog plays

3. After a while

4. Reading to the dog

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When the sense is completed, each one becomes a sentence.

1. In the picture are a dog and a boy.

2. When the dog plays he runs and barks.

3. After a while we'll go and play.

4. Reading to the dog will not teach him anything.

Make sentences of the following:

1. Yesterday morning

2. When the lesson was over

3. Words making complete sense.

4. With a capital letter

5. The dog in the chair

6. A margin on the left side of the page

7. About the picture

8. When will the boy

9. What kind of book

10. The book in the boy's hand

We have been using two kinds of sentences, questions and A question asks something; an answer tells something. Write the following sentences from dictation:

answers.

A sentence that asks a question is an interrogative sentence. A sentence that tells something is a declarative sentence.

How many children are there in the picture? How many boys? How many girls? Have they been to school? What time of year is it? What time of year do hurdygurdies come around? How is the man dressed? What is his wife doing? What does the monkey wear? What is the monkey doing? Is his hat for any other use except to wear? What will he do with the pennies? Can the monkey in the picture do any tricks? What do you suppose they are? What will he have to eat? Where do he and his master live? How much money do you think they earn in a day? Have you ever seen monkeys? Where did you see them? Were they all alike? Were they of different sizes? Tell how they looked.

If your teacher is willing, make a game of answering these questions. Let one pupil ask a question about the picture and another answer it. Did each use a sentence? Let other questions be asked and answered in the same way. Are the questions and answers all sentences? Let several pupils now tell about the picture, speaking distinctly and using good sentences.

5. WRITTEN LESSON

Write as much as you can about the picture. Follow the directions in Lesson 2. Some of these compositions are to be read aloud in the class. Which are the most interesting? Do they make good sense? Are the sentences correct?

Perhaps your teacher will prefer to have another oral lesson about the picture instead of this written lesson.