For years people mention the same Streamline English units …
We have often thought of redoing them, using retro pictures or AI. We have done one.
FOLLOW THIS LINK TO “I LOVE YOU FIONA.”
This one was variously called I Want You, Fiona or I Love You, Fiona or Love Isn’t Everything in different editions. This longer version is how we planned it for an abortive new edition in 2005. Teachers can put it up on a white board and try a popular retro lesson. There is audio.
We are mindful of who owns what. We own the text but not the illustration. This version is redone using two retro illustrations from 1932 and 1955, which is exactly how we planned to do it twenty years ago. We think they’re fun.
We don’t own the audio, so we are using the pilot edition audio, recorded in 1976 (Yes!) as English in England two years before OUP published it. You may recognize the voices. We did it later at Anglo-Continental, and much better, on videotape which we then used in class rather than audio, but we don’t have access to that. I apologize for sound quality. This is taken from a nearly fifty year old cassette, and one which had been much used in the classroom. Again, we don’t have the original Revox open reel recording..
If you know it by heart, as many teachers tell me they do, you will notice a couple of different lines. These match the 1976 audio and are in fact the version before OUP decided that ‘He’s married!’ was too problematic. It’s the version we taught for two years before publication. I’m happy to say the changes to the published version are minimal.
The 2005 version was to be two pages per unit not one. We adapted material from Workbook A. We have updated it from 2005 to now.
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