Les Gambusinos; Bermudes-el-Matasiete

Louis De [Bellemare

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• French language

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• Nombre de lectures: 36
• Langue: English
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LES GAMBUSINOS
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GAMBUSINOSLES
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1919COPYRIGHTGENERAL PREFACE
The teaching of Modem Languages should be founded
aon a carefully graduated Reader, which is to serve as
Vocabulary and Grammarbasis for the acquisition of
and for their application in speaking and writing. To
is advancedthis should be added, as soon as the pupil
of books and good literature.enough, the study good
In reading such books we hâve two distinct objects in
linguisticview (1) the re\'ision and enlargement of—
knowledge, the understanding, appréciation, and(2)
acquisition of such thoughts and facts as they contain ;
Theand for this purpose we use annotated texts.
process, however, of attaining thèse ends in a thorough
manner is necessarily a slow one and if we confine;
ourselves thisto elaborate treatment of the reading-
book, the danger arises of the pupils forgetting part of
the vocabulary and phraseology jjreviously learnt, for
the simple reason and phrasesthat the same words
présent themselves to their minds at intervais toc
far apart for preventthe memory to retain them. To
such a misfortune some books must be rcad rapidly.
Whether the rapid reading and the more detailed
study of a text should by side in thego on side
Vvi LES GAMBUSINOS
same term, or should be taken in alternate terms, must
dépend on the time available for thé teaching of
Modem Languages. Whenever possible, it would seem
to read books,advisable two one to be studied care-
fully, and the other to be read cursorily. The présent
séries is an attempt to provide suitable material for
Rapid Eeading. In the Vocabularies toadded each
book will be found, in addition to the more difficult
phrases, severalwords and sentences ilhistrating gram-
matical points. The notes are confined to the elucida-
tion of points bearing on the subject matter found in
texts.the
It is hoped that the books of this séries will also
be given to boys and girls for private reading in the
holidays or as term-extras. The Words and Phrases
at the end will enable pupils to dispense with a Dic-
totionary, and in this way they may be encouraged
acquire taste for French works ont ofa reading good
furnishschool. A book read in this manner should
between teachermaterial for a friendly literary causerie
and pupil, which may do miich to foster a taste for
if it is stimulating and helpful, and does notliterature,
assume the form of an examination.