- Some Basic Words in Pictures - sampling of picturable things (nouns).
- More Basic Words in Pictures - sampling of other parts of speech.
- Basic English Bibliography -- 196 titles
- Texts -- many with summaries
Terada's Teacher's Guide to The Basic Teacher -- Complete Guide, Steps 1-45.
| Terada's Method | Theory of Terada English Teaching Method |
| Robotic Learning -- ReadPlease | Download ReadPlease --
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| List of Learners' Seat Numbers | Mass Individual Teaching; |
| Equal Distribution of Learners | Visual Study |
| Saburo Terada learned English through "The Basic Teacher" 50-years ago and has been teaching Basic for most of that time. Here are his thoughts on a key point on how to teach English. | |
| Terada's New Home Page -- 8Apr2008 | |
Learning Basic English - a Practical Guide for English-Speaking People by I A Richards and Christine Gibson. Good.
Basic and the Teaching of English in Burma by Adolph Myers.
Why learn English - put this page through Google translation for your learners.
Sample Course Sequence - available project(s) for educator.
Modern Media for Teaching - available project for several educators.
- Create online courses. Such e-learning systems are sometimes also called Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). We have Moodle course management system available. Or pick your own -- we can probably handle any using : CGI, Perl, PHP, SSI, C/C++ or MySQL.
- Panopticon, Word Wheel, sentence builder - by John Derry. Version.03 is now available. Ogden's idea of a Panopticon,
word wheel, is to let the brand-new Basic learner see a logical way to put his thoughts into English sentences.
- "The functionality is entirely contained in one file, oww.html. Hence you can use your browser's Page Save to save a local copy, then it works just the same (this gives offline viewing; use the File Open on your browser). -- JohnD"
A development project has been set up to extend Ogden's simple Word Wheel as far as the concept can go. - Pronunciation - Some of this exists on
the web, but to be effective, this project needs a leader.
- ReadPlease (free software) lets one hear entire chapters of Basic and is a learning aid as discussed by Saburo Terada.
- VOA - Voice of America .
Special English is a simplified English language used by Voice of America
in daily broadcast. The news is read slowly and using a limited wordlist of about 1500 words.
Charles Kay Ogden recommended radio news be given in Basic
English with the appropriate Basic special radio vocabulary add-on.
Although intended for telling news around the world, VOA Special English
has the additional benefit of allowing introductory English to be learned and for pronunciation to be polished.
- Internet is available at all times.
- Shortwave radio for VOA news in special English :
times and frequencies.
( Shortwave radio times and frequencies change with the seasons.)
- Individual Word Pronunciation is available on Merriam-Webster dictionary website , The Free Dictionary ,Cool Dictionary and others.
- Users of the Firefox browser can install an
add-on Pronuncation to hear any word
pronounced. Highlight the word, click, on the icon.
- Idiomatic expressions are covered by these online dictionaries : (more)
Readings in Basic English
Note discussion on spelling (and intermediate) on Learning page.
English word frequency list -- see why Basic is clear
Essays in Teaching Basic English
Reading for boys and girls.
Games . A good opportunity to make word learning games. Here are some sample projects.
Next Steps - to the 2000 word level
After Basic English
American forms of Basic.
There are several online programs to learn standard English. These may be considered by the advanced learner who has already mastered Ogden's Basic English.
- BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, World Service, Learning English
- Oxford Teacher's Club
- Simple English
- World English
Japanese Links.
Dictionary Aids
- The Basic Dictionary - Ogden's proof that Basic can achieve communication at the "pocket dictionary" level of 7,500 words with only 850 words. Meanings given : "run", 2 ; "bow", 7.
- The General Basic English Dictionary -- a compact dictionary of 20,000 words in which all the definitions are in Basic English. Meanings: "run", 45 ; "bow", 9.
- The Collins COBUILD Learners Dictionary - a compact dictionary with learner aids in the "pocket dictionary" range. Meanings : "run", 50 ; "bow", 9.
- The Longman Basic Dictionary of American English in which the definitions utilize the Longman vocabulary that is limited to, introductory English of 2,075 words. The Longman list is used within a variety of Longman educational publications. This edition is at the 10,000 word level. Meanings : "run", 4 ; "bow", 5.
Other Aids
- Natural Grammar: the keywords of English and how they work - An depth discussion of 100 words (2-pages each), 89 are Basic. Recommended by a teacher, but not written in Basic.
- English Through Pictures, Books 1, 2 and 3 by I.A.Richards & Christine Gibson
This "Language Through Pictures Series" includes French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish language respectively in 2 volumes,
Some of these have been reissued in 2005 - Developers of Basic English textbooks and lesson plans : English Language Online Utility -- see Filtered Word Frequencies. This utility, only one of many useful tools on this site, uses "pure Basic English". See project.
Alternatives
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- March 14, 2006 . Add Natural Grammar , Oxford Teacher's Club