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The three pocketbooks comprising the English Through Pictures series are the remarkable invention of I.A. Richards and Christine Gibson, who designed them to help the learner speak, read and write World English in the quickest and clearest possible way - through pictures.
The authors have made a careful selection of the most widely useful English words, choosing those with the power to define other words, and have put them to work in key patterns that offer the learner the ability to communicate successfully in World English. Book 1 contains a vocabulary of 250 such words, with an additional 500 developed in Book 2; these 750 words are then used in Book 3 to build a command of 1000 words which, by their defining power, hold the possibility of understanding as much as another 20,000 words of World English.
Throughout English Through Pictures, responsibility for learning is placed directly on the learner, who from the very start enjoys the ability to put essential words to work creating key sentence patterns where meaning is clearly shown in pictures. These simplified drawings allow
learners to focus on the sentence and to enjoy growing confidence as they successfully take control of language, with the workbooks in Books 1 and 2 challenging and reinforcing their growing competence as both speakers and readers. Motivated and inspired, learners will soon find to their delight that fluent communication in World English - the common language of today's world - lies well within their grasp.
English Through Pictures has already been used successfully alone or in combination with other English language programs by millions of learners in more than forty countries. For more information, please visit www.englishthroughpictures.com Paperback 4.25" x 7" To order as a set with Book 2 and Book 3, please go to
https://pippinpub.com/viewbook.asp?book_isbn=0-88751-117-1 Japanese edition is published by IBC Publishing, www.yohan.co.jp Korean edition is published by Woongjin Think Big Co., Ltd., www.wjbook.co.kr Russian edition is published by Redaktsiya Yezhednevnoy Gazety. Chinese edition in Simplified Chinese Characters is published by Shanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers, english@sstp.cn Chinese edition in Traditional Chinese Characters is published by Maple House Publishing, Taiwan
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"I have looked at various word lists such as the General Service List and the Academic and University Word Lists. (University) TESL programs seem to discourage the use of word lists as a means of building vocabulary when there is a lack of 'meaningful context,' as they can become simply word memorizing. One of the advantages of English Through Pictures seems to be that, as the books progress, they allow for a more effective use of word lists by providing meaningful context, both in terms of pictures and through the repetition and reinforcement of previously learned vocabulary in new sentence patterns."
— Ontario ESL Teacher "The pages of these three wonderful volumes take us from single, to few, to multiple concepts of language, giving at length into narratives calling for comprehension and expansion by the learner."
— James O'Brien, Niagara College "As Field Supervisor of Frontier College…. I found the Basic English text English Through Pictures an extremely useful tool."
— William Pierce, De Vry Institute and Grant MacEwan College "Why do I use this book and not any other one?
I teach English to Starters at public schools in Brazil. Working class students.... During the last 15 years I have bought a large number of books, trying to find one that I really liked, and almost always felt that they were going too fast (teaching) too many things for a lesson,....until one day I read about English Through Pictures.So I have the task of teaching English in these conditions: students who had never studied English before, and whose literacy in their own language is not good.
Wonderful! Things started in the most simple way possible with the single word “I”, and developed at a pace that was very comfortable for me and for the students: no need for long explanations about a single expression, and no need for the student to accept things without understanding them. I felt that student intelligence was being respected, treated with logic, simplicity leading in a carefully chosen way to new words without any overload at all - never!
In the books I had examined there were too many new words at the beginning, lots of words that were presented and that never reappeared! None of this happens in English Through Pictures. The words are very carefully chosen and they keep reappearing, so I felt confident that the student mind could work on the books without too much strain.
I think that English Through Pictures is the perfect book for these students. Because, besides having a careful design that introduces new words under strictly controlled conditions, it keeps these new words reappearing, it has the pictures which provide the exact context for the sentences that the student will have to understand. Always!
It is not a dialogue with an illustration or two, like so many books. The student starts with one word and its pictured context and then proceeds, carefully guided, to one sentence with its pictured context. And then, when there is more than one sentence for each picture, the variation is a feedback on what has been already taught before, so the student has the chance to feel empowered in his/her ability to learn, instead of feeling overwhelmed by a lot of new words."
— Tancredo Neto, Professor de Lingua Estrangeira, Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre, Brazil
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