Short Stories For Oral French (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Short Stories For Oral French (Classic Reprint) written by Anna Woods Ballard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Short Stories For Oral French This collection of simple stories is offered to teachers and pupils for oral work. It is difficult to find material easy enough and interesting enough for successful conversation; yet in oral work that he can thoroughly master, the pupil finds the most stimulating exercise in his modern-language work. Once the story is his own to tell freely, it is a short step for him to write it correctly. It is a principle of the Reform Method never to require work to be written that cannot be spoken fluently; always to require a correct written reproduction of what is known orally. The willing spirit in which pupils meet these demands is the surest guarantee of their soundness. Many of the easiest stories in this collection were used during the school year 1910-1911 with two classes of beginners in Horace Mann High School who had French every day. The method described on page xiii was followed closely. In many cases the pupils wrote out the stories without a mistake, and their interest in this type of work never flagged. The very complete, some will say too complete, questions have been added to encourage the pupil who finds oral work difficult. Many find it very hard who would like to do it well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.