English Today: Book 5

The object of the five books of English Today is to provide secondary school pupils with a complete training in the uses of their mother tongue.

Such training will bear little fruit unless the active co-operation of the pupil is gained. To this end the illustrations, the general lay-out of the books, the openings of chapters, the explanations introducing many of the sections, and the challenging manner of setting the numerous exercises are all calculated to arrest attention and fertilise imagination. But there is no avoidance of systematic work.

Once the co-operation of the pupil has been assured he is led, through his new sense of purpose, to translate his interest into experience and skill by extensive practice. In this way I have avoided the barren academic approach and yet built a varied, graduated and thoroughly comprehensive course that can be worked straight through, the teacher omitting anything for which time or inclination may be lacking.