<p><strong>Begin in English: Vocabulary-Expanding Short Stories for Launched Beginners</strong><br /><em>Judith Bailey</em></p> <p><em>Begin in English</em>, a low level reader, encourages students to read by making them enjoy it. The volumes contain 14 delightful short stories, plays, some biography and history, and folk tales retold. They have been widely used in <span class="caps">ESL</span> classes for the &#8220;launched beginner&#8221;: adolescents and adults who know some English and are familiar with the present and continuous tenses. Controlled word lists come from Oxford Picture Dictionary of American English, and Robert J. Dixson&#8217;s 2,000 Most Frequently Used Words in English.</p> <p>At this low level, students do not have enough language with which to express themselves. Reading easy stories, which are not grammar based, and looking up words in their dictionaries as needed offers them the opportunity to acquire a great deal of new vocabulary quickly. A simple step-by-step dictionary lesson precedes the stories for this purpose.</p> <p>Also available are word for word CD recordings of the stories which students can use for practicing pronunciation.</p> <p><a href='http://static2.jadedpixel.com/s/files/1/0002/0157/files/begin_in_english.pdf'><img src='/images/admin/icons/mimes/pdf.gif' alt='' /> <em>Download a sample <span class="caps">PDF</span></em></a></p> 2007-05-20T14:16:56-07:00 begin-in-english 129645 Textbook 2007-05-20T14:16:56-07:00 2008-03-01T10:41:10-08:00 Judith Bailey beginner *Begin in English: Vocabulary-Expanding Short Stories for Launched Beginners* _Judith Bailey_ _Begin in English_, a low level reader, encourages students to read by making them enjoy it. The volumes contain 14 delightful short stories, plays, some biography and history, and folk tales retold. They have been widely used in ESL classes for the "launched beginner": adolescents and adults who know some English and are familiar with the present and continuous tenses. Controlled word lists come from Oxford Picture Dictionary of American English, and Robert J. Dixson's 2,000 Most Frequently Used Words in English. At this low level, students do not have enough language with which to express themselves. Reading easy stories, which are not grammar based, and looking up words in their dictionaries as needed offers them the opportunity to acquire a great deal of new vocabulary quickly. A simple step-by-step dictionary lesson precedes the stories for this purpose. Also available are word for word CD recordings of the stories which students can use for practicing pronunciation. <a href='http://static2.jadedpixel.com/s/files/1/0002/0157/files/begin_in_english.pdf'><img src='/images/admin/icons/mimes/pdf.gif' alt='' /> _Download a sample PDF_</a> 2007-05-20T14:16:56-07:00 manual 12950 210453 deny 1 Volume 1 Text 1 12.95 129645 true ISBN 0-943327-04-0 true 2008-03-01T10:41:10-08:00 2007-05-20T14:16:56-07:00 manual 19950 210455 deny 1 Volume 1 Compact Discs (2) 2 19.95 129645 true 0-943327-35-0 true 2008-03-01T10:41:10-08:00 2007-05-20T14:16:56-07:00 manual 12950 210456 deny 1 Volume 2 Text 3 12.95 129645 true ISBN 0-943327-34-2 true 2008-03-01T10:41:10-08:00 2007-05-20T14:16:56-07:00 manual 19950 210459 deny 1 Volume 2 Compact Discs (2) 4 19.95 129645 true 0-943327-37-7 true 2008-03-01T10:41:10-08:00 2007-05-20T14:16:56-07:00 manual 12950 210460 deny 1 Volume 3 Text 5 12.95 129645 true ISBN 0-943327-35-0 true 2008-03-01T10:41:10-08:00 2007-05-20T14:16:56-07:00 manual 19950 210462 deny 1 Volume 3 Compact Discs (2) 6 19.95 129645 true 0-943327-39-3 true 2008-03-01T10:41:10-08:00 2007-05-20T14:16:56-07:00 195968 1 129645 2008-03-01T10:41:10-08:00 http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0002/0157/products/begin1.jpg?1268028964 2007-05-20T14:16:56-07:00 195969 2 129645 2008-03-01T10:41:10-08:00 http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0002/0157/products/english2.jpg?1268028964 2007-05-20T14:16:56-07:00 195970 3 129645 2008-03-01T10:41:10-08:00 http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0002/0157/products/english3.jpg?1268028964 Title