Excerpt from Primer for Foreign-Speaking Women, Vol. 2In teaching English to adult foreigners, one discovers that pupils, who can read at all, have an inordinate desire to stumble over pages and pages of words and phrases which they can not use for self expression.This tendency must be tactfully held in check, and each of these reading lessons must become the personal property of the pupils. The words and phrases must not only be read, but used in conversation.The subject matter is intended to cover the most essential elements in the home teaching curriculum. Every endeavor must be made to have the lessons actually absorbed, and connected with the pupils' own lives and affairs. Home visiting will be a powerful factor in uniting theory with practice.In teaching the various lessons dealing with cleanliness, the teacher must work hard to inculcate the ideal of cleanliness as a continuous state - not merely a recurring spasm.These reading lessons are intended to be followed by an hour of manual work. This may consist of mending, garment-making, em broidery, crochet or laundry.Cooking should be taught with careful consideration of the needs of the neighborhood.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.