FOR 9 I Foreign-speaking Women PART I Compiled Umlrr the Dmvtion of MRS. AMANDA MATTHEWS CHASE Jifornia onal ity Commission of Immigration and Housing of California 1918 CALIFORNIA STATE PniNTING OFFICE 8ACHA.M! I 111 PRIMER FOR Foreign-speaking Women PART I Compiled Under the Direction of MRS. AMANDA MATTHEWS CHASE Commission of Immigration and Housing of California 1918 CALIFORNIA STATE PBINTING OFFICE SACRAMENTO 1111 Y. A PRIMER FOR FOREIGN-SPEAKING WOMEN. PART I. INTRODUCTION. Urgent need has arisen for a primer in our language to be used in Classes for foreign-speaking women. This pamphlet is the answer to that need. While the lessons which it contains have been well tested and found most useful, still, in a field as new as that of immigrant education, every step has in it the elements of an experiment. This book is, there- fore, but a tentative course of lessons, and the Commission will be grateful for constructive criticism which will lead to improvements in the text that a better book may come in the near future. The following suggestions on methods of teaching will prove helpful : The teacher of English to foreigners must remember that a language is used first to speak with. Reading and writing are secondary. Flash cards prepared from pieces of cardboard, each bearing a separate word, are excellent both for practice in phrase and sentence building, and in the various word-games which are a joy to beginners' classes. If the same word appears in print on one side of the card and in script on the other, pupils will acquire the two almost as easily as one alone. Charts, or posters, illustrated with bright pictures should be used throughout the lessons. They hold the attention of the whole group and are thus great savers of time. They prepare the eye to follow the smaller characters on the book page. They have their influence even when the teacher is not actively using them. They are useful for reviews, when it would not be possible to reassemble all the objects on the object table. A set of charts giving the same lessons as the book would be exceed- ingly useful. A set giving the same vocabulary in different combinations would i.l.M) be highly desirable. A rubber stamp alphabet of suitable size for making these flash cards ;MK! charts may be procured and each teacher may make her own charts and cards. . Charts can easily be prepared from pieces of manila paper two feet by three, by printing upon them the words and sentences suited to the needs of the pupils, and illustrating them with appropriate pictures cut 2 I17-.X1 4 A I'HIMKH FOR KOKKIciN >|'|-:\KI\(! WOMKX. from inaga/.ines and store placards. The advertising sections of maga- xiiics will be round most useful here. The following are a few examples of the endless number of sentences which can he used on a chart, and for which illustrations may he easily found: The baby is in the tub. We must have water, soap, and towels for baby 's bath. We must have the baby's clean clothes ready. We are baking biscuits today. For biscuits we must have a bowl and a spoon, flour, lard, salt, milk and baking powder. We bake biscuits in the oven. Here is a plate of fine brown biscuits. The reading of complete sentences from wall charts and books must bo undertaken with the greatest care. The pupils must not become discouraged. There is equal danger of their acquiring reading as a sort of mechanical trick, which has nothing to do with their speaking knowledge of the language. The early short and simple sentences should be well mastered before the difficult sentences are developed. On the other hand, oral teaching needs the reinforcement of reading and writing. For one thing, they deepen the memory channels. Besides, the mother needs something definite and concrete to take home and demonstrate her progress before the family. Children do not teach their parents English offhand, but if the parents bring home a textbook, the child will fall to teaching them with much interest, and will prove a real help. Bring as much dramatic action into the lessons as possible. Every lesson should include a thorough review of the preceding lesson. COMMISSION or IMMIGRATION \NI> norsixc. FIRST SERIES. THE GROCERY. Tlic arrangement of the series is planned to follow the foreign woman's needs in the order indicated by experience, which shows that the outside contacts must be first provided for. .Many who come for lessons have already picked up the words for money, counting to ten, the days of the week, and a few nouns of essential purchases. This certainly is a Hear indication of what is required as "first aid." SUGGESTIONS FOR PRESENTING THESE LESSONS. No lesson in this book is to be used as a reading lesson until it has h'-cii thoroughly developed by conversation. It might be well to drill first on the names alone, until the pupil can give them quickly when the object is indicated. Then the complete sentences may follow. For variety the pupils should ask the questions of one another. Up to this time the teacher has probably paid no attention to the Hash cards. Now, taking the card in one hand and object in the other, she goes over the cards. It will be interesting to remove all the cards, and make a game of having pupils replace them by their objects, speaking the word at the same time. All during this series the object table should be taken as a grocery, and the teacher will "play store'' with the pupils, and have them take turns also at being the grocer. Perhaps at the first lesson a pupil can do no more than come forward and point to the article she wants, pronouncing its name at the same time. This, however, is a beginning, and the widening vocabulary of each lesson will increase the pupil's facility until at the end of the series she should be able to make herself understood in a real store. First Lesson. TEACHER Good afternoon. Good morning. Good evening. How do you do? PUPIL Very well, thank you. NOTE. The above to be given orally. Accompany with handshaking. Have the pupils ureet one another in the same way. bread meat flour sugar soap salt milk coffee tea what this pepper What is this? What is this? This is bread. This is salt. What is this? What is this? This is meat. 'I'll is is pepper. What is this? What is this? This is flour. This is milk. What is this? What is this? This is sugar. This is tea. What is this? What is this? This is soap. This is coffee. Goodbye. A PRIMER FOR FOREIGN-SPEAKING WOMEN. Second Lesson. potato potatoes salt match eggs matches beans onions dozen How many eggs? How many beans? How many potatoes? How many matches? How many onions? Please give me a dozen eggs. Please give me 7 matches. Please give me 11 beans. Please give me 3 potatoes. Please give me 4 onions. 8 9 10 11 12 one two three four five rice cheese $.05 $.10 $.25 Third Lesson. pepper 323456 7 8 9 10 11 How much? How much is salt? How much is rice? How much is cheese? How much is pepper? How much is lard? How much is butter? $.50 12 13 $1.00 14 15 six seven eight nine ten lard butter $5.00 16 17 18 19 20 eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen want want want want want want have have have have have have some lard, some rice, some pepper, some cheese, some salt, some butter, some lard, some rice, some pepper, some cheese, some salt, some butter. Review for conversation all words in Lessons One and Two. pupils incorporate them into sentences similar to the above. Have COMMISSION OP IM.MHJKATION AND HOUSING. 7 Fourth Lesson. NOTK. Have scales and measures and money on the object table, along with several of the staples already given, which are sold by weight and measure. water milk quart pint dollar pound Please give me a pint of milk. sixteen Please give me a quart of milk. seventeen Please give me a pint of water. eighteen Please give me*a quart of water. nineteen I want 25 cents worth of beans. twenty I want 10 cents worth of cheese. twenty-five I want a dollar's worth of sugar. I want a pound of cheese. I want a pound of coffee. I want a pound of lard. I want a pound of butter. One penny is one cent. How many cents in one nickel? How many cents in one dime? How many cents in a quarter of a dollar? Twenty-five cents make a quarter of a dollar. How many cents make a half a dollar? Fifty cents make a half a dollar. How many cents make a dollar? One hundred cents make a dollar. tea coffee pound half a pound pounds sack I want a pound of coffee. I want half a pound of tea. I want 3 pounds of sugar. I want 5 pounds of rice. I want half a pound of cheese. I want 10 pounds of potatoes. I want a sack of salt. A I'KI.MKK FOR KOKKUiN -Sl'K A K I.Mi NVo.MKN. Fifth Lesson. Good morning. "What would you like to buy? I would like to buy a bar of soap. I would like to buy a loaf of bread. I would like a bottle of olive oil. I would like a can of coffee. I would like a sack of flour. I would like a box of matches. I would like a little meat. I would like a little rice. Sixth Lesson. A penny is one cent. A nickel is five cents. A dime is ten cents. A quarter is twenty-five cents. A half dollar is fifty cents. A dollar is one hundred cents. I have a nickel and a dime; I have fifteen cents. I have a dime and a quarter; I have thirty-five cents. I have a nickel and a quarter; I have thirty cents. I have a half-dollar and a nickel ; I have fifty-five cents. A half-dollar and a quarter make seventy-five cents. A quarter and a dime and a nickel make forty cents. Two dimes make twenty cents. Two dimes and one nickel make twenty-five cents or a quarter. A half-dollar and a dime make sixty cents. A quarter and two dimes make forty-five cents. Two dimes and two nickels make thirty cents. Three dimes make thirty cents. Four dimes make forty cents. Five dimes make fifty cents. Two nickels make ten cents or one dime. COMMISSION OF IMMIGRATION AND HOUSING. Seventh Lesson. I go to the grocery store. I have two dollars. I buy sugar for one-half dollar. One-half dollar is fifty cents. I buy a pound of tea for one-half dollar. I buy coffee for a quarter of a dollar. A qmirtcr of a dollar is twenty-five cents. I buy meat for a quarter of a dollar. Did I spend all of my money? How much had I left? The grocer gave me a bill like this : Sugar $.50 Tea .50 Coffee .25 Meat . .25 $1.50 I give the grocer my two dollars. He gives me one-half dollar change. Then I go to the market to buy vegetables. I buy lettuce for five cents, potatoes for a quarter, beets for ten cents. I low much money have I left of my half-dollar? Eighth Lesson.* Vegetables I buy three pounds of beans. Beans I buy 3 pounds of beans. Onions I pay five cents for one pound. Potatoes I pay cents for one pound. Peas I buy four pounds of onions. Let student write the names of all I buy 4 pounds of onions. vegetables she knows. I pay cents for one pound. I buy six pounds of potatoes. I pay cents for one pound. I buy two pounds of peas. I pay cents for one pound. What do I pay for three pounds of beans at cents a pound? TOTAL What do all my vegetables cost ? In all lessons using prices, they are left blank to be filled by the class. 10 A i-KiMKii KOK FOKI.H;N M-KAKIM; \\OMI.N. SECOND SERIES. HOUSEHOLD ACTIVITIES WITH DRAMATIC VERB DRILLS. NOTE. In this series both object and wall equipment will vary according to the resources and ingenuity of the teacher. They are just as imoortant In these lessons as In the preceding series. It is equally important that oral teaching leads. The Verb Drills are to be acted out dramatically so far as practicable. This series introduces an entirely new element. It attempts, besides teaching Knglish, to drive home certain ABC elements of sanitation and domestic science. The teacher will see where an actual practical demonstration of the activity given in the lesson may be employed to advantage. First Lesson. This is not a reading lesson; action accompanies the spoken words. )>ro<>in mop duster tub flatiron stove I cook. I wash. I iron. I sweep. I mop. I dust. We cook. We wash. We iron. We sweep. We mop. We dust. You cook. You wash. You iron. You sweep. You mop. You dust. They cook. They wash. They iron. They sweep. They mop. They dust. COMMISSION OF IMMIGRATION AND HOUSING. 11 Second Lesson, washboard boiler What is this? This is a tub. What is this? This is a washboard. What is this? This is a boiler. I wash the clothes in the tub. I rub the clothes on the washboard. I boil them in the boiler. Dirty clothes are bad. Clean clothes are good. $1.50 A washboard costs 25 cents. .25 A boiler costs $1.50. A washboard and a boiler cost $1.75. $1.75 Do you cook? Yes, I cook. Do you sweep? Yes, I sweep. Do you wash? Yes, I wash. Do you iron? Yes, I iron. Do you mop? Yes, I mop. Do you dust? Yes, I dust. Do you cook? No, I do not cook. Do you wash? No, I do not wash. Do you iron? No, I do not iron. Do you sweep? No, I do not sweep. Do you mop? No, I do not mop. Do you dust? Xo. I do not dust. S-41790 ]2 A PRIMER FOR FOREIGN-SPEAKING WOMEN. Third Lesson. window windows I Wiish the window. Dirty windows are bad. Clean windows are good. You wash the window. We wash the window. They wash the window. He washes the window. She washes the window. Mary washes the window. Mary cooks. Mary washes. Mary irons. Mary sweeps. Mary mops. M.iry dusts. She cooks. She washes. She irons. She sweeps. She mops. She dusts. Fourth Lesson. dish dishes rinse wipe cloth towel I wash the dishes. The dish cloth is clean. The dish towel is clean. I wash the dishes in hot water with soap. I rinse them in hot water. I wipe them with the dish towel. Can you cook? Yes, I can cook. Can yon wash? Y< -. I can wash. Can you iron? Yes, I can iron. Can you sweep? Yes, I can sweep. Can you mop? Yes, I can mop. Can you dust? Yes, I can dust. COMMISSION OP IMMIGRATION AND HOUSING. 13 Fifth Lesson. sink garbage paper cover Wliat is This is the sink. A dirty sink is bad. A dean sink is good. I wash out the sink with hot water and sonp. What is this? This is the garbage can. I wasli the garbage can with hot water and soap. I put a clean paper in the garbage can. I put the cover on the can. A dirty garbage can is bad. A clean garbage can is good. Sixth Lesson. flatiron What is this? This is a flatiron. I iron my clothes. You iron your clothes. We iron our clothes. They iron their clothes. lie irons his clothes. Mary irons her clothes. She irons her clothes. A flatiron costs ______ cents. Two flatirons cost ______ cents. tomorrow Tomorrow Mary will cook. Tomorrow .Mary will wash. Tomorrow Mary will iron. Tomorrow Mary will sweep. Tomorrow Mary will mop. Tomorrow Mary will sew. Tomorrow Mary will go to the store. 14 A PRIMER FOR FOREIGN-SPEAKING WOMEN. Seventh Lesson. 1. I cook on a stove. 2. I cook breakfast in the morning. 3. I bake bread in the pans. 4. I cook beans on my stove. 5. I cook meat on my stove. 6. I cook onions on my stove. 7. I cook eggs on my stove. 8. Tomorrow I shall cook dinner. 9. Tomorrow I shall cook supper on my stove. BROWN BROS. Sacramento, Cal., May 3, 1917. Sold to Mrs. Peter Lorenzine May 3 1 stove @ $12.50 12.50 2 pans @ .25 .50 1 teakettle .79 .79 TOTAL Received payment Brown Bros. 1. The stove costs twelve dollars and fifty cents. 2. The pans cost twenty-five cents each. 3. The kettle costs seventy-nine cents. Eighth Lesson. porch steps sidewalk dustpan brush What is this? This is a broom. What is this? This is a dustpan. What is this? This is a brush. What do you sweep? I sweep the floor with the broom. I sweep the porch with the broom. I sweep the steps with the brush. I sweep the sidewalk with the broom. A broom costs cents. A dustpan costs cents. A broom and a dustpan cost cents. (Demonstration of use of dustpan and brush.) COMMISSION OF IMMIGRATION AND HOUSING. 15 Ninth Lesson, pail floor What is this? This is a mop. What is this? This is a pail. Dirty floors are bad. Clean floors are good. I mop the floor. You mop the floor. They mop the floor. We mop the floor. She mops the floor. He mops the floor. Mary mops the floor. I cook the eggs. I wash the dress. I iron the dress. I sweep the floor. I mop the floor. I dust the chairs. Tomorrow I shall cook the eggs. Tomorrow I shall wash the dress. Tomorrow I shall iron the dress. Tomorrow you will sweep the floor. Tomorrow you will mop the floor. Tomorrow you will dust the chairs. A PKI.MKU KOIt KOKKKJN SI'KAKINC Wo.MI.X. (llisler Tenth Lesson. lalile chair woodwork What is this? This is a duster. I shall dust the table tomorrow. I shall dust the chair tomorrow. I shall dust everything in the room tomorrow. I shall dust the woodwork. The room will be very clean. Yesterday Yesterday Yesterday Yesterday Yesterday Yesterday cooked. washed. ironed. swept. mopped. dusted. Today Today Today Today Today I shall cook. I shall wash. I shall iron. I shall sweep. I shall mop. Yesterday Today Today I shall dust. Eleventh Lesson. sheet blanket comforter pillows mattress pillowcase bedstead bedspread This is the bedstead. This is the mattress. These are the pillows. I am going to make the bed. I take off the dirty sheets. I take off the dirty pillowcase. I put on the clean sheets. I put on the dean pillowcase. I put on the blanket. I put on the comforter. I put on the bedspread. COMMISSION 01 IM.MKiUATlnX AND HOUSING. 17 Twelfth Lesson. fry hoil hake \Vli;il do you cook? I cook meat. (Use the vocabulary already acquired in Ihc grocery scries to ;M as many answers as possible.) What do you fry? \Vliat do you hoil? What do you hake .' (Have answers in complete sentences.) Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday (Use the calendar.) Sunday I go to church. .Monday I wash the clothes. Tuesday I iron the clothes. Wednesday I sweep, mop and dust. Thursday I make a dress. Friday I go to the English class. Saturday I visit my friends. 18 A PRIMER FOR FOREIGN-SPK A K INC WOMEN. Thirteenth Lesson. brush knife vegetables turnips cabbage carrots Imuato tmnaloes beds onions I wash vegetables witli a brush. I peel them with a knife. I put them in boiling water. I put a little salt in the water. I boil the beets before I peel them. Vegetables are good food. We must eat them to be well. apple orange sweet sour hard sofl ripe (Verb Like.) TKACIIKK Do yon like apples.' PUPIL Yes, I like apples. No, I don't like apples. TEACHER Is this apple hard? PUPIL No, it is soft. TEACHER Then it is ripe. TEACHER Are you hungry? PUPIL Yes, I am hungry. TEACHER Is the orange sweet? PUPIL No, it is sour. (Use the name of each vegetable and fruit in similar conversation.) COMMISSION OF IMMIGRATION AND HOUSING. 19 Fourteenth Lesson. plate cup saucer knife fork spoon tablecloth napkins l,rl us set the table. We put on the tablecloth. We put on the napkins. The tablecloth and napkins arc clean. We put on the plates. We put on the cups and saucers. We put on the spoons. We put on the knives and forks. Are you hungry? Yes, I am hungry. Dinner is ready. KII.-ST PUPIL The tea is in the teapot. The cake is on the plate II !( comes my friend. Good afternoon. I am glad to see you. SECOND PUPIL Thank you. FIRST PUPIL Will you have a cup of tea and some cake? SECOND PUPIL Yes, thank you. Fifteenth Lesson. apple orange pear grapes peach apricot Do you like fruit? Yes, I like fruit. Fruit is good for us. It helps us to keep well. I will buy fruit to eat. I will give it to my children. Beer and wine are very bad for children. Tea and coffee are bad for children. Milk is good for children. Cocoa is good for children. Are you thirsty? Yes, I am thirsty. Please give me a glass of water. Please give me a glass of milk. Please give me a cup of tea. Please give me a cup of coffee. Plea.se give me a cup of cocoa. Thank you. 20 A PRIMER KOI; KoKKKJN H'KAKIM; WOMEN. Sixteenth Lesson. coal \viiod Jeakejjle Let us keep the st<>\e dean and bright. We like to see it clean. Let us keep it clean inside. Then the oven will bake well. What do you burn in your stove. I burn coal. I burn wood. Is the wood under the stove? No, it is in the woodbox. Is your teakettle bright and clean? Yes, I like to see it clean. REVIEW. I go to the grocery store and market to buy food. I buy sugar, flour, eggs, bread, butter and salt at the grocery store. I buy potatoes, beans, carrots and apples at the market. I buy coffee at the store and drink it for breakfast. I use sugar and cream in my coffee. I cook eggs and coffee on the stove for our breakfast. We eat oranges for breakfast. We do not cook oranges. We eat our food from our plates and cut our food with a knife. We drink coffee from a cup. I put sugar in my coffee. Do you put sugar in your coffee? Do you drink milk for your breakfast? Children drink milk for breakfast. I get up in the morning and wash for breakfast. I wash my face and comb my hair. After breakfast my husband goes to work and the children go jo school. The children must be at school at nine o'clock. Do your children go to school? The children must wash their hands and faces to go to school. I go to the market to buy fruit and vegetables. I go to the grocery store to buy food. Carrots, beets, potatoes and beans are vegetables. Oranges and apples are fruit. COMMISSION ()K IMMIGRATION \NI> HOUSING. 21 We r;if meat, vegetables, t'niils and grains. We rat our food at meal limes. We eat til Pee metils R day. \V<- call our meals breakfast, dinner and supper. We buy our food at the grocery store and the market. AY heat and barley, corn and oats are grains. Flour is made of wheat. Oatmeal is made of oats. noon some evening niirht luneb people at We have breakfast in the morning. We have dinner at noon and supper at night. Some people have lunch at noon and dinner at night. After my meals I wash the dishes. After supper I go to Evening School. I must be at Evening School at seven o'clock. I go home from Evening School at nine o'clock. For breakfast I have oatmeal, eggs, biscuit and coffee. For lunch I have bread and butter and stewed apples. For dinner I have meat, potatoes, tomatoes and some pie. Sometimes I boil my meat and vegetables together and make a stew. Sometimes I roast my meat and sometimes I have some steak. 22 THIRD SERIES. CLOTHING. First Lesson. Colors: red blue yellow -ivm In-own purple black white gray pink I am happy. I have money. I go to the store to buy cloth. I make a dress. I like my dress. I have three dollars. My cloth costs two dollars. How much money have I left? yard foot inch half ;i yard quarter of a yard long wide The table is five feet long. The cloth is a yard wide. How long is the cloth? How wide is the table? Kinds of cloth: cotton linen silk wool Mary has money. Mary goes to the store. Mary buys cloth. Mary makes a dress. Mary likes her dress. Mary buys some buttons. light blue dark blue Does Mary buy cotton cloth? No, she buys linen cloth. Has Mary a silk dress? No, she has a wool dress. Mary hnys doth to make a shirt. Mary buys cloth to make an apron. COMMISSION OP IMMIGRATION AND HOUSING. 23 Second Lesson. This is an apron. The apron is for a little girl. Aprons save washing. The apron keeps the dress clean. The apron is cheap. The apron is made of gingham. apron washing dress cheap clean What one needs to make an apron: 1$ yards of gingham at cents J dozen buttons " cents 1 spool thread #50 ' cents TOTAL At the store the apron costs $ I make the apron for $ How much do I save? Third Lesson. Making a Shirt. I buy a pattern to make a shirt. I pin the pattern on my cloth. I cut the cloth. I take a needle. I thread my needle. I tie a knot in one end of my thread. I take my thimble. I put my thimble on my finger. I sc\v Hie shirt. I sew the cuffs on the sleeves. I sew the sleeves on the shirt. I sew the collar on the shirt. I make the buttonholes in the shirt. I sew the buttons on the shirt. I sew four buttons on the front of the shirt. I sew two buttons on each cuff of the shirt. 24 A PRIMER FOR FOREIGN-SPEAKING WOMEN. Fourth Lesson. doll skirt waist coat cape dress hat shoes stockings The doll has a dress and hat. The lady has a cape. This skirt is long. This skirt is short. This cloth is narrow. This cloth is wide. I was happy yesterday. I had money. I went to the store. I bought cloth. I made a dress. I liked my dress. long short narrow wide vest drawers petticoat chemise union-suit nightgown The doll wears a petticoat and a chemise. I wear a union-suit. Please take off the doll's dress. Please put on her nightgown. I shall be happy tomorrow. I shall have money. I shall go to the store. I shall buy cloth. I shall make a dress. I shall like my dress. I take off my dress. I put on my nightgown. Fifth Lesson. coat. vest trousers shirt undershirt drawers nightshirt suit hat hose (Use a doll dressed in men's clothing as a basis for conversation, i Have you money? Yes, I have money. I have no money. Has John money? Yes, he has money, lie has no money. work pay-day John wears a coat and vest. John wears a suit and hat. John wears a shirt. lias .loliu money to buy a coat and vest .' llo\v much money has John? Sixth Lesson. The Dress. Dress goods sew make colors fade buttons thread spool gingham Add The dress costs cents. The cloth is gingham. The gingham costs cents a yard. Two yards will make the dress. The buttons cost cents a dozen. The thread costs cents a spool. How much will the gingham cost? ____> X2 How much will the buttons cost? ____ divided by 2 How much will the dress cost? Siihtract I low nnicli do you save when you make tin- M nt I i i tit/ *I.L':. 2 JUride 7 by 2 I sew my child's dress. The dress does not fade. The dress wears well. I buy my goods in town. 26 A PRIMER FOR FOREIGN-SPEAKING WOMEN. Seventh Lesson. Boy's Suit. ('FATK'AL DEPARTMENT STORE San Diego, Cal., May 9, 1917. Sold to Mrs. Smith Address: 546 E. 57th St. May 3 3 yd. gingham 1 'spool thread A doz. buttons ____?! TOTAL Suits 1. These suits cost cents each. Cost 2. These suits cost $ each. Made 3. They are made of gingham. Yards 4. Gingham costs $ a yard. Dozen 5. It takes three yards to make one suit. Thread 6. It takes one spool of thread. 7. One spool of thread costs $ 8. It takes one-half dozen buttons. 9. Buttons cost $ a dozen. COMMISSION OK IMMHMJATION AND HOUSING. 27 Eighth Lesson. lace embroidery ribbon thread 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100. Please give me a spool of black thread number forty. I want to buy some lace. Please show me some narrow embroidery. I want a yard of wide blue ribbon. Please show me some pink ribbon. narrow wide sell fine coarse TEACHER Can you make lace? PUPIL Yes, I can make lace. TKACHER What size thread do you use ? PUPIL For fine lace I use number 60. For coarse lace I use number 20. TEACHER Linen thread or cotton thread? PUPIL I use crochet cotton. TEACHER How much can you make in a day? PUPIL I can make a yard of narrow lace. I can make half a yard of wide lace. TKACHER Do you sell the lace? PUPIL Yes. TEACHER For how much? lYi-iL A dollar a yard for the wide lace. Half a dollar a yard for Ihc narrow lace. Ninth Lesson. dry-goods think cotton silk plant cloth blue woolen grows sheep warm cold summer winter I go to the dry-goods store. I buy cloth to make a dress. I think T shall buy blue doth t< make a blue dress. I make dresses of cotton cloth, woolen cloth or silk cloth. The cotton to make cotton cloth grows on a plant. Tin- wool to make woolen doth grows on a sheep. T wear a i-oltun dress in the summer. T wear a woolen dress in the winter. It is hot in summer. It is cold in winter. 28 A PKI.MI-:K KOI; i OKF.I'.IN- -SI-KAKIMJ \VO.MKN. Tenth Lesson. Playing Dry Goods Store. This involves an accurate and detailed dramatization of all the processes of buying and selling. Miscellaneous Lessons. To be used as circumstances call for them. Numerous variations of these may be adapted to the needs of the class. The titles are suggestive of other similar subjects of human interest suited to English lessons. Eleventh Lesson. PARTS OF THE BODY. Parts of the body: head neck chest arms legs hands feet fingers toes eyes ears tongue nose I see with my eyes. I hear with my ears. I feel with my fingers. I taste with my tongue. I smell with my nose. bee w mu eueb. / <7 J Jr necw wM mu Jr feel wim mu finae Jr table wim mu Ion Twelfth Lesson STREET CAR. NOTE. Arrange chairs and make a game of this lesson. I am going to visit a friend. I put on my hat. I go to the corner. I stop the car. I get on. I pay my fare. I ask for a transfer. I change cars. I get off the car. I see my friend. Thirteenth Lesson. letter envelope stamp address mail letter envelope stamp address mail I write a letter. I put it in an envelope. I write the address. I go to the post office. T Iniy stamps. I put a stamp on my letter. I mail the letter. Jr twite a tetter. Jr hut if in an envelope. Jr write me atlarett. Jr ao fo tne /tobt office'. Jr &uu btanifa. -/ /wit a btamJt on mu letter. Jr mail trie letter. 30 A PRIMER FOR FOREIGN-SPEAKING \\<>MKN T . Fourteenth Lesson, child children years old name boy girl TEACHER How many children have you? PUPIL Five. TEACHER How many of them are boys? PUPIL Three are boys. TEACHER Then two are girls. PUPIL Yes, two are girls. TEACHER Please tell me the names of the boys. PUPIL John and Will and Tom. TEACHER How old is John? PUPIL John is eight years old. Fifteenth Lesson. father mother husband wife son daughter brother sister grandmother grandfather uncle aunt cousin The brother loves the sister. I love my father and mother. <_/ne iwomev voveb me fatten. Jr totfe mu lamev ana momev. Are your grandfather and grandmother living? How many aunts have you? How many uncles have you? How many cousins have you? Sixteenth Lesson, clock watch hour minute tardy night day school What time is it? It is nine o'clock. fame & it? O ClOCK. .ft* This is a clock. 'I'll is is a watch. John must not lie tardy at school. IIn\v many minutes in an hour.' How many hours in a day? Does your husband go to night school? COMMISSION OP IMMIGRATION AND HOUSING. 31 Seventeenth Lesson. house i-oo I' room window door hmdlord rent loo high This house lias three rooms. This room has two windows and one door. The rent is too high. The landlord must mend the roof. notice nab mree roomb. ib room nab faw window! and one door. &77 i. . / /. / vMnaau comeb the twenteetn o/ (L/ctover. 32 A PRIMER FOR FOREIGN -SI -K A KI.XC \Vo\IK\. Twentieth Lesson, good food drink often bathe open We must eat good food. We must drink good water. We must have good milk. We must bathe often. We must sleep with our windows open. We must not stay in the house all the time. Ire merit eat aooa Looa. He merit arina aooa water. y y jf We merit naiie aoccf mM. e mtrit vat/ie ouen. 'e malt blee/t witn oar winaowb oAen. e merit not btau in tne notrie a/1 me time. COMMISSION OF IMMIGRATION AND HOUSING. 33 I. IN THE PARK. (Teacher has setting of this lesson as appropriate as possible.) FIRST IViML Let's go to the park. SKCOND PUPIL Yes. I am very glad to go. (They cross room.) FIRST PUPIL Now we are in the park. SKCOND PUPIL The park is beautiful. KIK-T PUPIL See the flowers! Si;< OM> PUPIL Yes, and how sweet they smell. FIRST PUPIL Hear the birds! SECOND PUPIL I love to hear the birds sing. FIRST PUPIL The sun is warm and bright SECOND PUPIL The grass and trees are green. FIRST PUPIL I must go home and get supper for my husband. SECOND PUPIL So must I. Let us go. (They return to places.) Tlie "dialogues" are not intended for reading or writing. They are to be given orally and acted out. For class instruction the women may learn them in little groups; or they may be prepared for advanced pupils to give on school programs. DIALOGUE II. SEEKING WORK. FIRST PUPIL I want to work. SECOND PUPIL What can you do? FIRST PUPIL I can wash and iron. SECOND PUPIL What else? FIRST PUPIL I can wash windows and clean house. SECOND PUPIL CM n you cook? FIRST PUPIL I can do plain cooking. SECOND PUPIL What wages do you want? I-'IKST PUPIL Two dollars a day. SECOND PUPIL What by the month? FIRST PUPIL Twenty-five dollars. SECOND PUPIL What by the hour? FIRST PUPIL Twenty-five cents. SECOND PUPIL Will you come to my house Monday to wash? FIRST PUPIL Gladly. SECOND PUPIL I shall expect you. Goodbye. 34 A PRIMER FOR FOREIGN-SPEAKING WOMEN. DIALOGUE III. VISITING THE SCHOOL. (Establish one pupil as Teacher with dolls to represent children.) FIRST PUPIL I am going to visit the school. (Crosses to school.) SECOND PUPIL Good afternoon. I am very glad to see you. Will you have a seat? FIRST PUPIL (seats herself) Thank you. My son .luan is in your school. Is he a good boy? SECOND PUPIL Yes, he is a good boy. FIRST PUPIL Does he study hard? SECOND PUPIL Yes, he studies hard. He is a line, boy. I like 1o have him in my school. FIRST PUPIL Thank you very much. My husband is proud of the. boy. We hope he will make a fine man. SECOND PUPIL I am sure he will. FIRST PUPIL (rising) I will go now. Good-bye. SECOND PUPIL I thank you for coming. I am always glad to see the parents of my pupils. Good-bye. DIALOGUE IV. THE TEA TABLE. (Tea table attractively spread actual refreshment.) FIRST PUPIL I am expecting company to tea. The tea is in the teapot. The cake is on the plate. Here comes my friend. Good afternoon. SECOND PUPIL Good afternoon. FIRST PUPIL I am glad to see you. SECOND PUPIL Thank you. (She removes hat, which hostess puts away.) FIRST PUPIL Sit down and we will have our tea. (Pours tea.) Do you take cream and sugar or lemon? SECOND PUPIL I take sugar but no cream. FIRST PUPIL Will you have cake? SECOND PUPIL Thank you. (Takes cake. Hostess serves herself. They take their cake and tea to a little distance and two other pupils use the tea table in similar manner.) 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