English Through Pictures by I.A. Richards and Christine

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看到网友咨询这套教材，自己也想了解一下。希望有用过的家长朋友能参与讨论使用经验和看法。
据了解，这套教材是属于外语教材一类，不是英语母语教材。
以下是通过谷歌找到的介绍资料。

据说有MP3，不过我看amazon原版没提及这个，也希望知道的家长或使用过的朋友能帮忙确认，谢谢。


English Through Pictures, Books 1-3
by I.A. Richards and Christine



Foreign Language Study - 864 pages
Book 1 - 272 pages
Book 2 - 336 pages
Book 3 - 256 pages

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.


Amazon Customer Reviews:
Learning English
By Roderick A. Jacobs on August 15, 2010
I was chair of the Department of ESL, now Second Language Studies, at the University of Hawaii for five years. I teach now in Atlanta. More recently, I've used this book with teenage refugees from Asia and Africa, young women who arrived with no knowledge of English at all. It proved itself really effective for one-to-one or one-to-two tutoring, better than any other textbook I've tried. And it's not expensive! Volume 3 of this 3-book series was recently kidnapped from my bookshelf by an Afghani 14-year old who later confessed and begged to keep it longer.


It's a good book for me.
By S.U.L on August 21, 2011
I had been learning English on this book. At first, it was something strange feeling compare to other language text books, but it was very easy to understand grammar of English who don't live in English speaking countries like me.
In Japan, we learn English from such phrases as "This is Japan. That is America. That is England." But it seemed to be difficult for a foreign language learner, because the first approach to English started in "sentence", not a "word".
Compared to our Japanese textbooks, this "English through pictures series" is much easier for me to understand English.
So I thanked so much to this book.

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瑜珈

这个以前似乎看到过电子版，国内好象有引进出版的，不过，我觉得用这个学英语，很枯燥没意思吧。

lotusleaf

从你发的内页看，好像是不翻译成英文，直接用图片教单词的意思，有点像rosetta stone这个英语软件，如果找不到这本书，可以试着找找rosetta stone软件，好像网上有不少

imlucky

一直觉得这本书很不错

xxjc2011

Englishtips.org裡有

我在做PPT教女儿某些比较抽象的东西时，有参考它的图片，再去Google上找更具体的图片，这种方式可以用在对小一点点孩子，去理解一些比较抽象的东西，但是，不能直接用书中的图片，而且，我不是用这本书教，只是参考而已