I(EY WORDS IN ENGLISH

byNirmali Hettiarachchi

andRajiva Wijesinha

Illustratedby

Sybil Wettasinghe

Published byWij eya Publications Ltd.

for theEnglish Association of Sri Lanka

Junior Readers Project

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Chief Editor:Nirmali Hettiarachchi

Editorial Assistant:Malathi Thalgo dapitiya

Editorial Board:Nihal CoorayNirmali HettiarachchiRajiva Wijesinha

rsBN 955 - 9067 - 02 - 8

Key Words in English is at the First Level of the t earningBnglish Series prepared by the Junior Readers Project of thenngtistr Association of Sri Lanka, with the assistance of agrant from the Canadian International D evelopment Agency.

GENERAL PREFACE

The first three Readers in the lrarning English Serieshave proved very successful. Following on this, the BnglishAssociation has been able, with financial assistance fromthe Canadian International Development A$ency, to produceseveral more readers in the series and make them widelyavailable at readily affordable prices

The Learning English Series has been designed espe-cially for Lankan students with words and pictures that arefamiliar to ttrem. This is because learning is made easierwhen confidence is built up and this is best developedthrough material that is not strange or totally alien to thelearner's culture. Accordingly, the greater number of booksa student is given the opportunity of reading, the lessalienated he or she will feel. For this reason we hope allstudents will have access to a number of books at each levelincluding the workbooks.

As planned at the outset, five levels of Read.ers have nowbeen made available. They are carefully graded and adoptdifferent approaches. trt is not essential that students gothrough all of them in order. Students at varying degrees ofproficiency may begin at the level which suits them best.

Quick students will be able to pi'ogress on to the next levelafter reading just a single Reader at one level. However, asthe books have been produced primarily to educate throughenjoyrnent, we hope that students will take;pleasure inreading through as many books as possible at each level.

Nirmali Hettiarachehi Rajiva lVijesinha

NOTE'FOR TEACHERS

"Key words in English" is based on the idea that thereare a fe# words which"are used so often that th"y make gPth" nu.. of the general vocabulary of alyole wl_rg.speaksEnglish. In this book students are introduced' to IUU worosthat are among the most often used by Lankan speakers ofe"slistt. Sinhila and Tamil words that express relation-shlis, like Amma and Appa which are commglJ.y inter-soelrsed in the English spoken by Lankans, are deliberatetyiri"-f"a.A to .-pfrasize^the fact that the languqge is notsomething alienio its users but rather is tied in wit1-t our owrrexperiences.

The words are arranged in alphab-etical order. There areno words with g, X and Z because tfiese Ietters are moreaim"nlt and les"s often used. In addition to the key wordsUr"t U.gin with t}e particqlar letter on each p?.ge' there- areshort pl..t"" *tti"ft reinforce and show furtler usage oftti;i i"Ti"t. irrese phrases are illustrated to h."lp grqsp,their

-"""i.tgs. It should be noted however that the easiest.ya.y

oT-eipla-itring the most cgmmon words is throYgq theirSi"ftif" or Tamil equivalents, and the,re should be nofr"-"itiUon aUoui using these to ensure that meanings aregrasped.

The book can be used by itself as a basic introductionto the iu.trg.t.ge, but may

"Jg,i be conveniently used together

with Fun wifi-Gii"iJ ,i"Alor Fun with Sodnds' Fun withIrtters introdlces letters in a different order, and by^illus-tratinA any word or phrase that is used directs itself morelo*"i[" .iro*ing hdw letters make up words; Fun withSorrnat, *ttictt iitroduces fewer letterd and vowel sounds,concentrates more on developing confidenc::. in languageuse throu$h practice in P{oltoulicingwords.'l'ne aim oI tnrsbook, fro'o?r'6i is to establish a basic vocabulary for regrrlaruse. A11 three books have some words in common and' areint".fftted in many ways. Together they' aim to reinforce#hat is taughf trtiougi. familiarity gl-g Fg pt:lsure ofrecognition fiat it brinls. Teachers will find that it helps to;;;iils; siudents to frrove freely from one book to another;; 6-fir-;te ;ae of me thrill of iecognition to advance thelearning process.

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A dog on a desk

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