The first page of the _English Through Pictures_ Book 3 gets me singing this song by The Who...
A few years ago (well 12 or 15?) I played it for a class expecting the sorts of faces and reactions my Dad got from us kids when he played Frank Sinatra or Big Band music for his in-laws of parents.. But the receptions for "Who are you" was surprisingly positive. At the time some university students may have been watching CSI, the series that had the song at the start of every show.

https://youtu.br/PNbBDrceCy8
https://youtu.be/LYb_nqU_43w

https://hermit123arata.livedoor.blog/archives/23122144.html
https://neverendingmusic.blog.jp/archives/20709225.html
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I made a worksheet page to drill "a" and "the" and a background reading page to stress a special view of the thumb. Page 10 of English Through Pictures(Richards and Gibson, 1945) is hard for veteran Japanese teachers. Maybe because "the thumb" is nothing special in their native language so it's not as much a help as it should be for learning "the" even after decades of experience.
https://bsmall2.codeberg.page/pages/opposable-thumb/EP1-p10-s4-hand-thumb.html
https://bsmall2.codeberg.page/pages/C3-a-hand-the-thumb/sentences.html
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A Start Page search for the Japanese translation of a #MikeDavis interview on #TomDispatch turned up a writing I did about the #EnglishThroughPictures books. I wish I could find that org-file again, but I've been thinking of recreating the quote and source pointers with #racket 's #scribble for a while. But it was hard for me to focus on writing while using scribble. https://www.gdm-japan.net/uploads/yearbooks/yearbook_68.pdf
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