You.
The question form is easily learned and should be introduced in the early lessons. Combine familiar words in new relations:
| Can you run? | ||
| Can you sing? | ||
| You can jump. | ||
| Can Kitty hop? | ||
| Can you hop and sing? |
| XI. XII. | XIII. XIV. XV. | XVI. XVII. |
Write upon the blackboard in a vertical row several I see sentences. Have the children read them. Erase I see in each sentence, leaving Rover, Kitty, you. Again, place several I see sentences upon the blackboard. Erase Rover, Kitty, you, leaving I see, I see, I see. Erase I, leaving the single word see.
Continue in this way with the phrases I can see, I have, I like, I love.
Children are interested in home life, therefore introduce the words father, mother, brother, sister, baby in the early lessons.
Teach the articles a, an, the in connection with their nouns in order to secure natural expression.
Review these words in new sentences which combine familiar words in new relations. Ex.:
| XI. | XII. | |
| I see. | I can see. | |
| I see Rover. | I can see Rover jump. | |
| I see Kitty. | I can see Kitty run. | |
| I see you. | I can see you run and jump. | |
| XIII. | XIV. | |
| The bird. | I have; a dog. | |
| Can you see the bird? | I have a bird. | |
| The bird can hop. | I have a dog. | |
| The bird can sing. | I have a kitty. | |
| The bird can jump. | Have you a bird? | |
| Can the bird jump? | Have you a kitty? | |
| Have you a dog? | ||
| XV. | XVI.XVII. | |
| I like; to. | I love; mother; father; baby | |
| I like Rover. | I love Mother. | |
| I like Kitty. | I love Father. | |
| I like to sing. | I love you. | |
| I like to run. | Mother loves Baby. | |
| I like to see the bird hop. | Baby loves Kitty. | |
| I like to see a dog jump. | I love Mother and Father. | |
| I like to see Rover run. |