Basic English

Basic English course


By  



C. K.OGDEN.  








|1 .   The Body |11 .  The Machine       |21 .  Invention |
|2 .   Food |12 .  Business |22 .  Feeling |
|3 .   Work |13 .  Money |23 .  Art |
|4 .   TheWeather       |14 .  Noise |24 .  Trade |
|5 .   The Family |15 .  News |25 .  Transport |
|6 .   A Building |16 .  Amusement |26 .  Peace |
|7 .   Fire |17 .  Education |27 .  Language ||8 .   The Country |18 .  Reading |28 .  Society |
|9 .   The Sea |19 .  The Earth |29 .  Government |
|10.  Time |20 .  History |30 .  Science |






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1 . THE BODY

Other Words (in connection with thebody) :
blood , bone , brain , foot , hair , heart , lip , muscle , neck , nerve , skin , stomach , throat, toe , tooth ;
back (special use) , nail (expansion) , side(s) ;
breath .




1 . The BODY

    This is my body.
    This is my head. This is my face.. I have a nose and a chin. My mouth is between my nose and my chin. I have atongue in my mouth.
    This part is the front. That part is the back. My chest is at the front.
    This is the right side. The opposite side is the left side. The right arm is at the right side. The left arm is at the left side. This is my right leg. This is my left leg. This is my knee.
    This is a finger That is a thumb. I have a thumb and fingers on my hand. This fingeris bent. That finger is straight.
    I put my right hand on my head. I take my right hand off my head. I put my right thumb in my left hand. I put my right hand on my right eye. I put my left hand on my left ear.

Questions
o Where is your head?
o Where is your nose?
o What is between your nose and your chin?
o Where is your tongue?
oWhere is your right ear ?
o Where are your knees ?
o What have I on my hand ?
o What is the opposite of straight ?
o What are the parts of the body named here of which you have more than one?
o Of which parts have you only one ?
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2 . FOOD

Other Words :
apple , berry , drink , egg , fish , fowl , fruit , jelly , milk ,nut , paste , potato , rice , water , wine ;
roll (e) ;
bite , bottle , cook , cork , cup , poison , pot , tray , vessel .


THE FOOD

    Some food is on the table. A meal is ready. I go from this seat to a seat at the table.
    I have some soup in a basin. I take some bread with it. The bread is on a plate. I take my spoon in my hand and put thesoup in my mouth.
    I have some meat. I put salt on my meat. I have a knife and a fork. I put the meat in my mouth with the fork. I take butter on my knife and put it on my bread.
    This is cake, and that is cheese. The cake is here and the cheese is there. I may have some cake or some cheese. I may not have cake and cheese. I will have some cheese.
    I will have an orange.I will take the skin off the orange. The skin of an orange is bitter. This orange is acid. I will put some sugar on it. The taste of sugar is sweet. The taste of salt is not bitter, or acid or sweet.
    Cake is sweet. This cake is sweet and sticky..


Questions
o What do you have at a meal?
o Where do you have it?
o What do you have in a basin?...