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MORE KEYWORDS INENGLISH

byNirmali Hettiarachchi

andRajiva Wijesinha

Illustratedby

Sybil Wettasinghe

pubtished byWijeya publications Ltd.

for theEnglish Association of Sri la.nka

Junior Readers project

@ English Association of Sri LankaJunior Readers project

lst Edition, l9g2

Chi'ef Editor:Nirmali Hettiarachchi

Editorial Assistants:Rushika GunasingheM alathi Thalgo dapitiya

Editorial Board:Nihal CoorayNirmali HettiarachchiRajiva Wijesinha

rsBN 955 - 9067 _ 03 _ 6

More Key words in English'is at the second rever of theLearning English series prepare.l by the Junior ReadersProject of the English Association ol sri Lanka, with theassistance of a grant from the canadian InternationalDevelopment Agency.

The first three Readers in the Learning English serieshave proved very successfur. Folrgfrrg o., [ri", ihe EnglishAssociation has been ablc, with finan"cial assistance fromthe c anadian International D everopment Agency, to pro duceseveral more readers in the series and mike

-trr"* widety

available at readily affordable prices.

The Learning English series has been designed espe-cially for Lankan students with words and picturis thaf arefamiliar to them. This is because learning is made easierwhen confidence is built up and this iJ best developedthrough material that is not strange or totalry arien to thelearner's culture. Accordingly, me gieater number of booksa student is giv:n the opgortunit5r of reading, the lessalienated he or she will feer. For tii" ,".son we hope allstudents will have access to a number of books at each levelincluding the workbooks.

As planned at the outset, five revels of Readers have nowbeen made avairable. They are carefully graded and adoptdifferent approaches. rt i" not essentiallhat students gothrough all of them in order. students at varying degrees ofproficiency may begin at ilre level which suits them best.Qrrick students will be able to progress on to the next level*":

reading just a single Reader it o.re lever. However, asthe books have been produced primarily to educate througtrenjoyme't, we hope that students "ritt

t te pleasur"'i.,reading through as many books as possible atlach level.

GENERAL PRENACE

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