2015-08-21
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l Basic English – constructed language,
l 1930 Charles Kay Ogden - 7 weeks
l Words selected via tests -850 words
l Simplified grammar which keeps it correct
l Idioms not included
l Words are pluralized with the help of S
l Each of 300 verbs can be turned into nouns by adding ER, ING; into adj by adding ING, ED
l Adjectives turn into adverbs by LY
l Adjectives can be inverted with UN
Operations – 100 words:
l Come, give, get, go, keep, let, put, seem, take, be, do, have, say, see, send, may, will
l About, across, after, at, among, between, by, down, from, in
l A, any, every, no, other, such, some
l North, south, east, west, please, yes
Things – 400 words:
Things – 200 picturable words:
Qualities - descriptive words
l Able, acid, angry, automatic
l Waiting, warm, wet, wide, wise, yellow, young
Qualities -50 opposites:
l Awake, bad, bent, bitter, certain, cold, complete, cruel,
l Thin, white, wrong
l EASY English – simplified at Level A, Level B
l A – 1200 words as a foreign language
l B - 2800 words, Cambridge First Certificate
l Commonwealth English – standard English spoken within Commonwealth
l Plain English (simple writing style)
l Globish - simplified, most common English words, made as a result common practice
