This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...the other pupils some writing to do and then called Anton to his desk. By pointing to himself and by acting, Mr. Gordon taught Anton the meanings of several sentences which the others understood. Anton could not understand "I am pleased to see you." The teacher tried to show that he was pleased, but ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...the other pupils some writing to do and then called Anton to his desk. By pointing to himself and by acting, Mr. Gordon taught Anton the meanings of several sentences which the others understood. Anton could not understand "I am pleased to see you." The teacher tried to show that he was pleased, but yet Anton did not see the meaning of the expression. One _ of the men volunteered the explanation in P0 lish. "You must not do that," said Mr. Gordon. "He must learn to swim in the water, not on land. If he cannot understand to-day, he will understand to-morrow." The evening passed very quickly. At half past nine a bell rang and the men got up to get their clothing. Another bell rang, and every one said "Good night, Mr. Gordon," and the class was dismissed. Anton met Alexander down-stairs and the two agreed to accept Leo's invitation to have a cup of coffee at the coffee-house. They found Leo sitting at the table talking to three other men. He got up when he saw them enter and extended his hand. "Well, how are you?" he said in English. To his surprise Anton answered: "I'm very well, thank you. How are you?" Leo's bad humor seemed to have left him entirely. He was much interested in Anton's description of the first lesson in English. Then he explained his refusal to go to school. Bit by bit his, story came out. About a year ago he was tempted to go to a night-school in the city of C-. The school was organized by the mining company for which he then was working, and employed a young foreman as a teacher. The foreman was good as a foreman but poor as a teacher. The first night the teacher began the lesson by writing the alphabet on the board. Then the...
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Very Good. No Jacket. pp. 209. 7624 shelf. Black-stamped blue cloth. Slight edgewear, esp. at spine ends. 1925 school stamps verso front cover & on FEP. No names, clean text. No dust jacket. With b/w photos, drawings, etc. "G" printing. Consists of chapters using fairly simple English, each one followed by a series of questions.