Odds and Ends [antikvár]

FOR THE TEACHER Odds and Ends provides suitable reading material for the student who has been learning the language for three or four years. By this stage the student may have been taught all the main structures or grammar of the language; but, as I have explained to the student in Chapter Four, he is not yet ready to be let loose on literature written for English-speaking readers. To gain the greatest benefit from his own reading he still needs material that doesn't involve too many language problems. Though written in natural fully idiomatic English, this book does therefore control the rangé of vocabulary and idiom and avoids unusual literary variations. Like the other World-Wide Readers, this one is, then, meant to be read fluently. The purpose of a supplementary reader is to supply the student with the priváté reading material he so badly needs in order to consolidate what he has already been taught. This purpose will not be achieved unless the reader can be read by him more or less on his own, easily, quickly, and with the minimum of help. Odds and Ends deals with a variety of subjects which have specially influenced the language. Thus in reading the book for the sake of reading practice, the student will alsó learn something useful about the background of the language. Then, because the book is arranged and illustrated with the clear aim of teaching the language, the student will obtain the satisfaction of knowing that he really is improving his English by reading it. Haslemere, 1966. Ronald Ridout