Increase your English [antikvár]

PREFACE This is the third-and last-of a series of books of exercises designed to strengthen vocabulary in different ways. The second of the series, Build Up Your English, published at the end of 1952, has met with such a gratifying reception in so many different parts of the world that I have felt encouraged to complete the trio. This book, Increase Your English, is the easiest of the three and should be used in classes one below those using Build Up Your English, or for 'B' streams that are not quite able to cope with that book. Foreign schools in which English is taught as second language will find this book useful, I hope, for classes that have done about four years' steady work in the language. As in the previous books, the exercises have been tried out in appropriate classes. The passages chosen, and the vocabulary as a whole, are appreciably easier than in the earlier book. In a very few instances I have slightly simplified the text in the B extracts but only where I felt that the originál words would cause real difficulty. The majority of the passages are untouched. There are twenty Sections in this book, each divided into two parts, A and B. Part A has eight questions, Part B six (or seven). There are, therefore, nearly 300 exercises in the whole book; plenty for a good year's work. Part A. This part includes exercises such as: (a)Idiomatic expressions. (b)Spelling and pronunciation. (c)Punctuation. (d)Sentence construction. (e)Description of common objects and creatures, YÜ