Our home, our family, and our friends - Mutart \.^m ®i|^ ICtbraru Imti^rBttii of N^rtli (EaroUna (HoUprtton at North Qlaroltmatta Publication No. 214 Our Home, Our Family, Our Friends TWENTY READING LESSONS FOR ADULT STUDENTS Marie mutart Mildred C. Moore Consultants ELIZABETH C. MORRISS DELLA M. DAY HOME SERIES, BOOK II Issued bt the State Superintendent of Public Instbuction Raleigh, Nobth Cabolina 1939 CONTENTS Page We Live in the City 3 A Home in the Country _— 4 Our Garden 5 Breakfast in Our Home 5 Lunch in Our Home 6 A School Lunch 7 Health Rules 8 Pets 8 Our Home and Our Pets 9 Work .__... 10 A Budget 11 We Will Buy a Home 12 We Will Furnish Our Home - 13 A Flower Garden 14 A Happy Home .. 15 Our Table 16 New Clothes ^ 17 Our Party 18 Our Evening at Home 19 Our Home, Our Family, and Our Friends 20 Vocabulary by Lessons 21 Suggestions to Teachers 21 Alphabet — In Print and in Script 23 Lesson I ^ ^ '^ 1 s 1 IQb 1 1 -?!v-.4*. J yi^ 1 o^S^ k^^^T ^^ mnrTPJfc ^ fc ^ C^^ 1^ ^ TJJjllilliu BHBH^^^^^^B^H HI ^^B ^^^H !■■ , -^ - — ■—^ WE LIVE IN THE CITY Where do you live? Is your home in the city ? Yes, we live in the city. Where do you work? We work in the city. Where do your children go to school? Our children go to school in the city. We visit our friends. We go to the community school. We will learn to read and write in the community school. We have good books in our home in the city. We will be good citizens. where NEW WORDS live the [3] city Lesson II A HOME IN THE COUNTRY Where do you live? Do you live in the country? We live in the city. Our parents live in the country. We like to visit our parents. They have a farm. My boy likes to work on the farm. The children like to play on the farm. We go to church in the country. My parents are good citizens. They go to the community school. My parents will learn to read and write in the community school. We like to visit our parents in the country. They like to visit our home in the city. NEW WORDS country parents they farm [4] Lesson III OUR GARDEN Will you have a garden? Yes, we will have a garden. We will plant vegetables in our garden. Will you plow and plant the garden? My brother and I will plow and plant the garden. Our boy likes to plow in the garden. Vegetables will grow in our garden. We will work the garden and vegetables will grow. We like vegetables for they are good. We will have vegetables for our children. We will have the vegetables for supper. NEW WORDS plant vegetables plow grow for Lesson IV BREAKFAST IN OUR HOME We have good food for our family. I cook a good breakfast for the family. I cook eggs in milk for the children. We have fruit, breakfast-food, milk and eggs. The boy likes milk and breakfast-food. The girl likes fruit and milk. My mother likes fruit, eggs and milk. My father likes fruit, breakfast-food, eggs and milk. Our family likes to have a good breakfast. NEW WORDS food fruit breakfast eggs milk [5] Lesson V LUNCH IN OUR HOME We have bread for lunch. We Hke bread and fruit for lunch. The children like bread, milk and fruit for lunch. Fruit is a good food. Fruit and vegetables grow in our garden. We like corn for lunch. Milk is good for lunch. We hke it. The children have corn, milk and fruit for lunch. I cook corn bread, vegetables and eggs. Corn bread is good for lunch. The children like it. We have good food for lunch for our children. They will grow healthy on good food. bread NEW WORDS lunch corn [6] it Lesson VI A SCHOOL LUNCH Our children go to school in the city. Where do your children eat lunch? Our children eat lunch at school. They take good food to eat for lunch. They like to take fruit and meat sandwiches for lunch. Apples grow in our garden. Apples are good fruit for children to eat. Our children will take apples for lunch. Our boy will take bread and meat sandwiches and apples. Our boy likes to take eggs for lunch. Our girl will take bread, meat sandwiches and fruit for lunch. NEW WORDS eat take apples meat [7] sandwiches Lesson VII HEALTH RULES Do you obey health rules in your family? Yes, my wife and my children know and obey health rules. We like to have good health. We eat good food for good health. We know water is good to drink. We like good water to drink. My wife cooks good food for us. We eat meat and apples. Do you drink milk? We know it is good for us to drink. We know vegetables are good for us to eat. My wife will have good food for us to eat. I will have good water for us to drink. We drink milk and eat vegetables and fruit. We have a healthy, happy family. NEW WORDS wife know water drink us Lesson VIII PETS Can you have pets in your city? We like our children to have pets. My husband and children love pets. Will your boy have a dog? Our boy will have a dog. Our children like to have pets. My husband and I have a horse and a cow. The dog and the horse are good friends. The horse will work. My husband will take the horse and plow the garden. The boy will water the horse. Do you milk the cow? I can milk the cow and my husband will milk the cow. Our children will have good milk to drink. Milk is good for us. It is good for our pets. NEW WORDS pets husband dog horse cow [8] Lesson IX {Revieiv) Ck^ g "iL n_- Ki ^ M Wn.. i H aL OUR HOME AND OUR PETS Where do you live? We live in the city. Our parents live in the country. They have a farm. Do you have a garden? Yes, and my husband will plow and plant the garden. We will water the vegetables and they will grow. Do you have vegetables for lunch? We have vegetables for supper. For lunch we will have meat, corn bread, milk and fruit. Our children take bread and meat sandwiches and apples for lunch. Milk and eggs are good food for breakfast. We have good food to eat and good water to drink. We have good milk to drink. The children like it. I can milk the cow and my wife can milk the cow. My wife likes to milk the cow for us. The children like to have pets. Do your children have pets? Yes, they have a dog and a horse. We love the children's pets and we know they are our good friends. WORDS TO READ it the grow plow fruit apples us city know take horse country cow corn live they lunch husband dog eggs meat wife plant parents eat farm milk bread water breakfast for food pets drink where sandwiches vegetables [9] Lesson X WORK Are you married and do you have a family? Yes, we have a boy and a girl. Is your brother married? My brother will be married on Sunday. Do you and your wife work? Yes. We work to earn money for our family. We earn money to buy food. We save money to send our children to school. We save money to buy good books for our family to read. Will you buy a home? Yes, my wife and I will earn and save money to buy a home. NEW WORDS married earn money [10] buy save Lesson XI A BUDGET Do you plan to have a budget? Yes, we plan to budget the money we earn. We will plan a budget for food. We will plan to buy books to read. We will budget our money to send the children to school. Will you plan to budget your money to buy a home ? My wife and I plan to buy a home. We will deposit money for this home in the bank. We will have a bank book and a check book. We will write a check on the bank for money to buy our food. We will learn to write a check at the community school. We like to plan a budget and have money to deposit in the bank. NEW WORDS budget plan deposit bank check [11] Lesson XII WE WILL BUY A HOME Do you live with your father and mother? Yes, I live with my father and mother. I will be married in the church on Sunday. Will you and your wife buy a house? We plan to work and earn money to buy a house. We will budget our money and deposit the money we save in the bank. We will live in the city where I work. We will ask our parents to visit us. We plan to have a room for our parents in our home. My sister and my brother will visit us and they will have a room. We will paint this room white. Will you paint the house white? Yes, we will paint the house white. with house NEW WORDS room [12] paint white Lesson XIII WE WILL FURNISH OUR HOME Will you be married in the church? Yes, we will be married in the church on Sunday. My wife and I will go to our home. Will you furnish your home? We plan to work and to earn money to furnish our home. We have a bed, a table and chairs. My wife will buy the curtains. The curtains will be white. We will paint the house white. Our parents will visit us and we will furnish a room. The room will have a bed, a table and chairs. The curtains in this room will be white. We will furnish a room for my brother and my sister. We will paint this room white. We will have curtains in this room. We will be happy to have a home and to furnish it. NEW WORDS furnish bed table chairs curtains [13] Lesson XIV ^k ^3 ,iSfllifA r 4 Jjgjillllllllll m ^ ^ ^^. ^M' \ ^%^ * JTv A FLOWER GARDEN We will have a flower garden. We will fence in the garden. We have a white house and we will paint the fence white. A vine will grow on the fence. The vine will have blue flowers. Will you plant fruit trees? We will plant fruit trees in our garden. We will plant flowers in our garden. We will water the flowers and the trees and they will grow. We will eat supper in the garden. We will have our table and chairs in the garden. My wife will have blue flowers on the table. She will have bread, meat, eggs, vegetables and fruit on our table. She will have milk for us to drink for our supper. Our friends like flowers. We will send blue and white flowers to our friends. We like to work in our flower garden. NEW WORDS fence vine blue trees she [14] Lesson XV (Review) A HAPPY HOME We are married and have children. We plan to work and to budget the money we earn. My wife and I work and we will save our money. She will budget for our food and to send the children to school. We will save our money to buy a home. We will deposit the money we save in the bank. We will have a bank book and a check book. We will learn to write a check at the community school. We will buy a house. We will work to furnish the house. We will paint the house white and will have a white fence. We will have a bed, a table, chairs, and blue and white cur- tains for the bed room. Flowers, fruit trees, and a vine with blue flowers will grow in the garden. The vine will grow on the fence. The supper table will be in the garden and blue and white flowers will be on the table. WORDS YOU CAN READ bed blue vine house trees deposit buy earn with money white furnish she plan check paint budget married bank room fence table chairs curtains [15] Lesson XVI OUR TABLE We have a table and chairs. Do you have a cloth on your supper table? Yes, we have a white cloth on our supper table and the dishes are white. I will write a check at the bank and my wife will buy knives, forks and spoons. We like to eat our supper on the table in the garden. We have a table and chairs in the garden. We will have a white cloth and blue flowers on the table. We will have the white dishes and the knives and the forks and the spoons on the table. We will have good food to eat. Fruit will grow on our trees and we will have fruit on our table. We will ask our friends to have supper with us. cloth dishes NEW WORDS knives forks spoons [16] Lesson XVII NEW CLOTHES We will plan for new clothes in our budget. My wife and I will save money and buy new clothes for the family. Our children will have new clothes for school. Our girl will have a new green and white dress and our boy will have a new blue suit. Will your wife and you have new clothes? Yes, she will have a new green dress and I will have a new blue suit. She will have a white flower on the green dress. We will have new clothes for Sunday, and we will have new clothes for our party. We will be happy to have new clothes. NEW WORDS new clothes green [17] dress suit Lesson XVIII OUR PARTY We are proud of our new home. We will ask our friends to a party. We know they will enjoy a party. The children will play games in the garden. Our parents will play games with the children in the garden. We will enjoy the games with our friends. We will serve sandwiches and fruit to our friends. We will have the new white cloth on the table. We will have flowers and fruit on the table. We will have our new green and white dishes and our new knives and forks and spoons for our party. We will be proud to serve our friends the food our mother will cook for the party. They will enjoy the good food. We will serve the children of our friends at the table in the garden. We will serve the parents at a table in the house. We will be happy to have our friends with us. They will enjoy the games. NEW WORDS proud of enjoy games serve [18] Lesson XIX OUR EVENING AT HOME Do you like to be at home in the evening? We enjoy our evening at home. We study our lessons for the community school, and our children study lessons. We have good books to read on our table. Our friends like to read our books. We are proud to have good books to take to our friends. Our friends like to visit us in the evening. The children like to play games. The parents have music and like to sing. The children like to sing. We enjoy good music and we ask our friends to sing with us. We learn to like good books and good music and to sing at the community school. We learn to be good citizens at the community school. We enjoy our friends. We ask our friends to visit our home in the evening. NEW WORDS evening study lessons [19] music smg Lesson XX OUR HOME, OUR FAMILY, AND OUR FRIENDS A Revieiv We live in the city where the children go to school and my wife and I go to community school. Our parents live in the country and my brother will work on the farm. The children play with the pets on the farm. They have a dog and a horse. They like to water the horse and to take meat to the dog. In the city we have a garden. Our boy will plow and plant the garden. We grow vegetables for food. For breakfast we have milk and eggs. For lunch we have corn bread and milk and fruit. Our children take bread and meat sandwiches and fruit to school for lunch. They have good apples to eat. They will have good milk to drink for my husband will milk the cow. We work to earn money. We budget our money and we plan to buy a home. We will save our money and deposit it in the bank. I will write a check for my wife. She will buy a bed, a table, chairs and curtains to furnish our new white house. We will have a bed room for our parents. We know our children will enjoy a play room. We will paint the play room white. We will fence in our garden and will plant a vine on the fence. We will have fruit trees and flowers. We will buy a new white cloth for our supper table and new dishes, knives, forks and spoons. We will buy new clothes. Our boy will have a new suit. Our girl will have a new dress of green and white cloth. My wife will have a new dress of green cloth. I will have a blue suit. Our brother will be married in the church on Sunday and he will have a new suit. We are proud of our new home and we will have a party. We will be happy to have our friends. We will ask our friends to play games with us and to enjoy the food we will serve. We enjoy our evening at home. We have our supper and we study our lessons. Our children study lessons and like to read good books. We like to read good books. Our friends visit us in the evening and the children play games. Our parents like music. We like to sing and to enjoy the music and the games. We have a happy evening in our home. [20] VOCABULARY BY LESSONS 1. 2. city live the where country farm parents they 6. 7. apples eat take meat sandwiches drink know us water wife 11. 12. bank budget check deposit plan house paint room white with 16. 17. cloth dishes knives forks spoons clothes dress green new suit 3. for grow plant plow vegetables 8. cow dog horse husband pets 13. bed chairs curtains furnish table 18. enjoy games of proud serve 4. breakfast eggs food fruit milk 9. (Review) 14. blue fence she trees vine 19. evening lessons music sing study 5. bread corn it lunch 10. buy earn married money save 15. (Review) 20. (Review) SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS VOCABULARY The 82 words used in this 20-lesson unit of the Home Series have been checked against the Thorndike, Ayres, Basic English, and the First Level word lists. (The First Level word list is from Preparati07i of Reading Materials for Adult Education in the Foundation Fields, Division of Educa- tion, Works Progress Administration.) In the Thorndike List: (la) means in the first 500 words of the list; (lb) means in the second 500; (2a) means in the third 500; (2b) means in the fourth 500; and so on through (5b). (6) means in the sixth thou- sand, (7) means in the seventh thousand, (15) means in the fifteenth thousand, etc. In the Ayres List: All of the 82 words that are in italics are in Ayres' 1000 word list. In the Basic English List: All of the 8 2 words that are checked (V) are in the Basic English word list. In the First Level List: All of the 8 2 words that are marked with an asterisk (*) are in the First Level word list. Repetitions: The number, not in parenthesis, opposite each word indi- cates the total number of repetitions of that word in this 20-lesson unit. apples (la) ( V ) 7 bank (la) (*) 9 bed(la) ( V) (*)- 6 blue (la) (V) (*) 11 bread (la) (V) (*)-- 12 breakfast (lb) (*) 9 budget (8). 12 buy (la) (*) 20 [21] chairs (lb) 7 check (2a) 7 city (la) (*) 14 cloth (lb) (V) 7 clothes (lb) (*) 9 corn (la) 6 country {I2.) { ^1 ) {*) 7 cow (lb) (V) 8 curtains (2a) ( V ) 6 deposit (3b) 5 dishes (2a)..- — 4 dog (lb) (V) - 6 dress (la) (V) (*).- 5 drink (la) ( V )- - H earn (2a) 8 eat (la) (*) _ _ 14 eggs(la)(V)(*) 11 enjoy (lb) 11 evening (lb) (*) 7 farm (lb) (V) 6 fence (2a) 7 food (la) ( V) - 22 for(la)(V)(*) 62 forks (2b) ( V ) 4 fruit (lb) ( V)- 25 furnish (2a) 8 games (lb)..-_ 7 green (la) (V)(*) 6 grow (la).__ 12 /lorse (la) (V) 8 house (la) ( V) (*)-- H husband (lb)._ 6 i<(la)(*) 7 knives (2a) ( V ) - 4 know (la) (*) 7 lessons (lb) 4 live (la) (*) 16 lunch (3b) 22 married (2b) ( V ) 9 meat (lb) (V) - 8 milk (la) (V) (*) 24 vioney (la) (V) (*).- 23 music (lb) ( V ) 5 new (la) ( V) (*) 25 o/(la)(V) 5 paint (lb) (V)-- 8 parents (2a) 15 pets (4a) -— 11 -plan (la).... 13 plant (la) (V) -- 9 plow (3a) (V) 6 FOLLOW-UP WORK proud (lb) 4 room (la) ( V) (*) 13 sandwiches (5b) 6 save (la) 9 serve (la) 5 she (la) (*) 6 sing (la) 5 spoons (2b) ( V ) 4 study (lb) 4 suit (lb)... 5 table (la) (*). 24 take (la) (V) (*) 11 the (la) (V) (*) 154 they (la) (*) 20 ^rees (la) (V) 6 us (la) (*) 17 vegetables (2b) (*). 15 vine (2b) 5 waier (la) (V) (*) 8 w/iere (la) (V) (*) 8 white (la) (V) (*) 26 wife (lb) (*). 19 with (la) (V) (*) 10 Supplementary reading for each lesson developed by the teacher and the students will be helpful. This material would be based on the interests of the students and would use several times the new words in each lesson. These lessons may be developed on the blackboard or on charts made of brown wrapping paper. The teacher and the students usually plan follow-up work of various kinds for each lesson. For example: (1) For lessons 1 through 3 the teacher may suggest that the students bring pictures of rural homes and urban homes. They may make posters of vegetable and flower gardens in the country and they may plan gardens they can have in the city — either a garden plot or a window box. (2) For lessons 4 through 7 the teacher and the students may wish to make food charts showing a balanced diet in the home, a good school lunch, etc. (3) For lessons 8 and 9 the teacher and the students may plan a pet show, sending invitations to the Community School Council members. (4) For lessons 10 through 16 the students may wish to make a bud- get, showing income and purchases they plan to make for their homes. They may plan to have a demonstration home and have an "Open House" day, inviting the Community School Council mem- bers and all students to attend. (5) For lessons 17 through 20 the teacher and the students may discuss the selection of clothes. Then a party may be planned. This party may be held at the demonstration home. The students and guests may have some music and play games. They may write a letter, inviting the State Director to the party. This letter would be sent to the State Director of Adult Education WPA and State Depart- ment of Public Instruction, 307 State Office Building, Raleigh, North Carolina. If the State Director cannot attend perhaps the students can take some pictures of the party and send them to her. 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