Lado English Series Book 3

This is the third of six volumes in a new type of textbook series lor students of English as a second language. For many years I had hoped to apply to just such a series my teaching experience, my linguistic and psychological training, and my insights into how to make the work of both teacher and student more productive and rewarding. But the demands of a busy life — first developing the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan with Dr. C. C. Fries, and then organizing the School of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown University — delayed until now the realization of this project. It was while I was in Spain on a Fulbright grant organizing a new program to train teachers of English in that beautiful country that my friend, Julio Andujar of Simon & Schuster, suggested that the time had come to write the LADO ENGLISH SERIES. After much work and many revisions, here is Book 3. It is intentionally designed to be both clear— unlike the complicated texts of my own high school days — and lively. But it is more than that; for it embraces many features that are new and unique, combined with the best of the traditional in a fully-integrated sequence of dialogues, pattern