A Programme of Reading for Forms One and Two

Abstract

Soon after I arrived in Malaysia, one of the teachers in Kolam Air told me how he had managed to improve his English. He had changed to an English-medium school and was finding it very difficult to understand what he was being taught. So he decided to spend time each day reading English on his own. But he found this very boring. All the articles in newspapers and magazines contained very many words that he did not know. Looking up a dictionary took a lot of time and he could not always decide which meaning of the word fitted the context. He had the same trouble with books, and after a few weeks he was about to give up in despair. But then he saw a simplified reader. He bought it and read it. He found it easy to read and very enjoyable. He read as many as he could and before long his standard of English improved greatly.