The Body.
1). This is my body. 2). These are my legs.3). I have eyes and ears. 4).The mouth is between the nose and the chin. 5).The neck is between the head and the chest. 6).The tongue is in the mouth. 7).This part is the front. 8).That part is the back. My chest is at the front. 9).This is the right side. 10).The opposite side is the left side. 11).The right arm is at the right side. 12).I put my right hand on my head. 13).I take my right hand off my head. 14).I have a thumb and fingers on my hand. 15).This finger is straight 16).That finger is bent. I take my hand off my face and put my thumb on my knee.
Food
1. I go from this seat at the table. 2. Some food is on the table. 3. Meal is ready. 4. I have some soup in a basin. 5. The bread is on a plate. 6. I take my spoon in my hand and put the soup in my mouth. 7. I have some meat. 8.I put salt on my meat. 9.I have a knife and a fork. 10. I take butter on my on my knife and put it on my bread. 11. This is a cake and that is cheese. 12. The cake is here and the cheese is there. 13. I may have some cake or some cheese. 14. I may not have some cake and cheese. 15. I will have some bread. 16. This orange is acid. 17. I will take some sugar on it. 18. I will not have sugar. 19 The skin of an orange is bitter. 20 The taste of sugar is sweet. 21.This cake is sweet and sticky.
Work
The learning of Basic English is sort of work. I do it with my brain. I may do other sorts of work with my hands. I may take some cloth and make a coat. My scissors are sharp .The cloth is cut. I take a needle and a thread. I put the thread through the hole in the needle and make a knot at the end of it. I put the sharp point of the needle against the cloth. I take the needle through the cloth with a push at the one end a pull at the other end, and I make a stitch. This is a bad needle. It is bent. Good needles are straight. I put a button on the coat. The coat is ready. After work my body is tired, And I have a rest. After my rest I will have play.
The Weather
The weather is warm in the summer, but in the winter it is cold. Rain may come down from the sky in warm weather or in cold weather, But snow will come down only in the winter. Rain is wet. It is water from the sky. Rain and snow do not come from a clear sky. A sky with a cloud in it is not a clear sky. Rain and snow come from clouds. I go out in every sort of weather. In cold weather I put my warm coat on .In wet weather I gat an umbrella and put it over my head. The rain may come down, but only the umbrella will be wet. My coat under it will be dry. In the summer I do not put my umbrella up only in the rain. I may put between my head and the sun and make a shade. Clouds may make a shade and I may put my umbrella down. In the winter I see my breath in the air before my mouth. The water in the hole at the side of the road may have a cover of ice on it. In very cold weather I go on the ice. I may have a tall, but I will not go through the ice. I take a mass of snow in my hands and make a ball. The very cold winds of winter are north and east winds. The warn winds of summer are south and west winds.
The Family
I have one sister and brother. My brother is very young. he is still a baby, with only one tooth. Other teeth will comes. Very young babies have not any teeth. I am still a boy and my sister is still a girl. Before the birth of the baby boy, she was the baby of the family .My brother is a healthy boy but he was ill in the summer .Some babies get a pain in the stomach in warm weather. Before a meal a cry may come from the baby. My sister may not give food to the baby, but I may give it to the baby. I put my hand on the foot of the baby. It is warm. Healthy babies warm feet. A kiss and a smile make a baby ready for play. The brothers and sisters of my mother and father are men and woman. Some are married and have son and daughters. The father of my father is an old man.
A Building.
My house is at the end of a street. Every building in the street is a house.Some houses in the street are high and some are low,some are of wood and some are of stone.The base of a house is the support for the walls,and the walls are the support for the roof.The roof is the cover of the house.The front door of the house is wide,but the back door is narrow.On the front door is the number of the house.At the back of the house is a garden.The houses on the opposite side of the street are not complete.Come across the street and we will see the work.The outside of this house is almost complete.The walls are quite complete,but the roof is not on the house.That structure at the front is not a part of the house.It is a stage for the support of the workman.They go up on it and do the work on the high parts of the building.Do not go in.you may see the inside of the house through the windows .The walls and the floor of the room are complete,but the door is not there.These holes in the outside walls of the rooms are for windows,and those in the inside are for doors.That pipe by the house is for a drain.Drains take water from a house,and other pipes take water to it.The drain pipes are wide ,but the other pipes are norrow.Some houses have no drains,but such houses are not healthy.
Fire.
I have a place for a fire in my room .The fire-place in my room is small, but some of the rooms in the house have great fire-place, Pipes take the smoke from the fire-places up through a hole in the roof. Fires make a house warm, but this is not the only use of fire. If I have a wet coat and put it before a fire, the fire will get it dry. If I put water in a kettle and put the kettle on the fire, the water will get warm. And I may put food in a pot on the fire or in an oven and make a warm meat. If I put paste in an oven, I may get a cake. But this is the work of a cook, and if I am not a good cook the cake will not have very good taste. Warm cakes have a good smell. In the winter my sister and I come in from play in the snow and get warm before the fire. We get near to the flame ,but not very near. If we are far from it we do not get warm enough, but it we go very near we may get a burn Burns give much pain. If the room is dark I put a stick on the fire. The flames come up, and make all parts of the room bright with firelight. Do not let my sister, who is very young, put sticks on the fire or have a match. If very young boys and girls have matches, they may get a burn from the flame ,or they may put it against a curtain or a cushion and the house will be in danger. If you see fire on the curtain or a cushion and the house will be in danger. If you see fire on the curtain, go and get water in a bucket and put it on the flames, and the damage may not be great. Flames go from one thing to another. If you do not get a full bucket you may not have enough water
The Country.
In the summer I got with my family from the town to the country. We go to a farm. At the back of the farm-house is a field, and in it is a great tree with one low branch. In very warm weather I get up on the branch and have a rest. In the field is an old goat. If I am on the grass it will come and give my body a push, put up in the tree I m safe. Goats take every flower and leaf from the stem of a plant. A cow is another farm-animal and a sheep is another. In some of the fields of the farm are cows, and in other are sheep, and in a low building of wood is a great mother pig with some small baby pigs. I have a fowl at the farm. It is a small brown bird. It is in the fowl-house with the other fowls. If I see an egg in the fowl-house I do not keep it; I take it to my mother. I do not let it get broken. We get eggs from fowls and wool from sheep. The farm-house is a brown building of stone with a red roof. Near it are the building for the animals, and about it in the summer are green trees and fields with flowers. The country is not green in the winter. The field are brown and the trees have no leaves, and we do not see any flowers. Some birds go to other places where the weather is still warm, because they do not get enough food in England in cold weather. But after the winter they come again.
The Sea.
At the edge of the sea is a town with a harbor, and near it is a stretch of sand. In bright weather the sea is blue but in wet weather it is grey. The taste of seawater is a salt taste. I go into the water for a swim. After my swim I have a rest on the sand which is warm. I take it in my hands and put it over my body, but I do not put it over my head. If I get a grain of sand in my eye the pain will be very great. That is why I keep it from my face. After my rest I get up and give my body a shake and get all the sand off again. Small boys and girls keep together near the edge of the water where it is not deep .The other go where it is deep enough for a swim, but even they do not go far from the land because if they get in the current they will be in danger. A person on the sand may see the danger and get a boat and give help, but if they do not get help, they may not get safely to the land again. Near the harbor is a small island with great stones on it , and among the stones are sea plants and sea animals. I go there with my father in a make the inside of the boat wet. If the water is smooth and clear we may see a fish in the sea near the boat. We do not go to the island in a mist. The danger from a mist on the sea is great.
Time.
Morning is the first part of the day, and night is the last part of the day. Night is the time for sleep, and bed is the place for it. My bed and the bed of my brother are in one room. In the space between the beds is a table with a clock on it. In the morning, if my brother is not awake. I put out my hand across the table and give the covers a pull and say:”Good morning! Are you awake? Get up! ”The first things which I put on are my socks, and the last thing is my coat. When I have on everything but my coat, I take a comb and put it through my hair. If I do it after I have my coat on, a hair may get on my coat. I take hairs off my coat with a brush. I have my morning meal an hour after I get up. In the early part of the morning we do work: in the late part we have play .That is how the mornings go. Tomorrow we will not do any work. On one day of every week we may have a rest all the day. Tomorrow is the day after this day, and yesterday is the day before this day, and this day is today. The days of the week are: Sunday ,Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Sunday is the first day of the week and Saturday is the last. We get up at seven. We have our morning meal at eight and go out at ten-fifteen. We go to to bed at nine-thirty. Before we go to bed we have a wash with soap. When we come from the bathroom my mother may say “Are you ready for bed? When you are in bed I will come and say good night”.
