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First Thousand Words In English
First Thousand Words In English is the classic picture dictionary of children’s English: one thousand everyday words — the thousand that open the language — each one living inside a big, busy, seek-and-find picture.
The words are not listed but placed: the kitchen’s words in the kitchen, the farm’s on the farm, the body’s on the body, so the child learns vocabulary the way they learned their first language — by seeing the thing in its world and hearing its name. Every scene hides its small games, and the word list at the back turns the book into a dictionary the child can search.
It is written for young beginners of English — and the parents and teachers who read with them — the first English book very many children ever own, and the standard by which first word books are still judged.
A thousand words is not an arbitrary count: it is roughly the vocabulary of daily life, the set that lets a beginner name their world. This book’s genius is its delivery system — the picture scene. Where a list gives a word and a translation, the scene gives a word, a picture, a context, and a reason to keep looking: children hunt the labelled objects, find the hidden character, invent stories about the crowd on the page, and absorb two hundred words in an afternoon they thought was play. The scenes range across home, school, town, country, seaside, and celebrations, so the vocabulary is the whole child’s world, and the closing word index teaches dictionary skills without a lesson ever being announced. Parents treasure it because no English is needed to use it well — point, say, find, repeat — and teachers keep classroom copies because the scenes generate talk the way a tap generates water.
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About This Book
First thousand words books are a genre, and this is the one that defined it: the picture-scene dictionary in which a child’s first English vocabulary arrives attached to the visible world. Its thousand words are chosen for frequency and usefulness, and its pictures have taught more beginners than any wordlist ever printed.
What Children Will Find
A Thousand Words in Their Worlds
Each double-page scene is a place — home, school, farm, high street, seaside, party — crowded with the objects and people that belong there, every one labelled: the vocabulary of the place learned inside the place, with the relations between words visible at a glance.
Games Hidden in the Pictures
The scenes reward hunting: objects to seek, details to spot, stories to invent about the pictured crowds. The play is the pedagogy — a word found by the child in a picture is remembered as a discovery, not a duty.
The First Dictionary Skills
The closing index gathers all thousand words alphabetically, turning the picture book into a first dictionary: look it up, find its page, see it in its scene — the reference habit, learned years before reference books are usually survivable.
Key Features
The scene method is the feature: vocabulary in context, never in lists. The selection is the second — the genuine thousand of daily life — and the density of talk the third: every page generates questions, pointing, and naming, which is to say, language.
Who This Book Is For
It is for young learners of English from preschool to early primary, bilingual families building a first English vocabulary, ESL/EFL teachers of the youngest classes, and parents who want a first English book that works even if they speak no English themselves.
How to Use This Book
Sit with the child and point: name, repeat, hunt, find. Ten unhurried minutes with one scene teaches more than an hour of drilling, because the child’s eyes lead. Return to favourite scenes — the second visit, when the child names before you do, is the book working. Older beginners can write the words from the index; classes can use scenes as speaking prompts, each child describing one corner of the crowd.
Related Books
The grammar that follows this vocabulary is Grammar Way Book 1. The German equivalent for young learners is Duden Bildworterbuch Fur Kinder.
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