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Contents₁

• Preface: Link
• Introductory Section: Link
  Introduction
  Organisation and use of this course
  Instructions to the student on use of programmed introduction to Thai phonology
  Programmed introduction to Thai phonology₂
  Reference chart of special symbols used in Thai basic course
• Lesson 1: Link
  Basic dialog : Greeting someone
  Notes on the basic dialog
  Grammar notes
  1. The personal pronouns
  2. สบายดี /sà-baai dee/
  3. Word order in the sentence
  4. Changing statements into questions
  5. The question word หรือ /rĕu/
  6. Final Polite Particles
  7. แล้ว /láew/
  Drills
  → Transformation drill (change into questions with หรือ /rĕu/)
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 2: Link
  Basic dialog
  Notes on the basic dialog
  Grammar notes
  1. The question word อะไร
  2. Use of ‘ใช่ไหม’ in confirmation
  3. Use of ‘ไม่ใช่’ in disagreement
  4. Responding to questions with ‘หรือ’
  Drills
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
  Classroom expressions
• Lesson 3: Link
  Basic dialog
  Notes on the basic dialog
  Grammar notes
  1. Stative verbs
  2. Omission of the subject
  3. Negation of the verb
  4. Use of the question word ‘ไหม’
  5. ‘Plurality’ in the noun
  6. ‘อย่า’ in negative request
  7. ‘นี่, นั่น, โน่น’ verbless sentences
  8. ‘หรือ’ in negative questions
  Drills
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 4: Link
  Basic dialog
  Grammar notes
  1. Use of unit classifiers
  2. The classifier phrase as a noun replacement
  3. ‘ของ’ used to indicate ‘possession’
  4. The position of ‘ใคร’ iin the sentence
  5. How to express ‘being’
  Drills
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 5: Link
  Basic Dialog
  Notes on the basic dialog
  Grammar notes
  1. Ways of expressing negation
  2. ‘เป็นยังไง’ meaning ‘What is is like to…?’
  Drills
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 6: Link
  Basic dialog
  Grammar notes
  1. จัง as an intensifier of stative verbs
  2. เก่ง with noun phrases and verb phrases
  3. Verbs with obligatory complements
  4. Terms used to refer to people
  5. Words relating to names of cities and countries
  6. Another use of ใคร
  Drills
  Exercises
  Comprehension test
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 7: Link
  Basic dialog
  Notes on the basic dialog
  Grammar notes
  1. Xxx to indicate past experiences
  2. Xxx + place expressions
  3. Lack of verb inflection
  4. Omission of subject pronoun
  5. Sentence + xxx to indicate ‘possibility’ or ‘suitability’
  6. Sentence + xxx to indicate ‘ability to perform some activity’
  7. Use of xxx + xxx / xxx
  Drills
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
  Map of Thailand showing some provinces
• Lesson 8: Link
  Basic dialog
  Grammar notes
  1. Compounds
  2. Xxx + place expressions
  3. Responses to xxx xxx
  4. Difference between xxx xxx and xxx axxx
  Drills
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 9: Link
  Basic dialog
  Grammar notes
  1. Means of indicating ‘time’ and ‘aspect’ of the verb
  2. Function of the question words
  Grammar drills
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 10: Link
  Basic episode
  Questions on basic episode
  Drills
  Exercise
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 11: Link
  Basic dialog
  Grammar notes
  1. Use of xxx to indicate ‘mutuality’ and ‘plurality’
  2. Xxx, xxx, and xxx and indefinite pronouns
  3. Numerals
  4. Xxx with included modifiers or specifiers
  5. Xxx xxx as a pluraliser
  Drills
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 12: Link
  Basic dialog
  Notes on the basic dialog
  Grammar notes
  1. Ordinal numbers
  2. Xxx as a number
  3. Ordinal numbers after classifiers
  4. Expressing ‘age’
  5. Xxx and xxx to express state of an action
  6. Xxx… versus xxx xxx xxx
  7. Position of classifier phrases referring to pronoun subject
  Drills
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 13: Link
  Basic dialog
  Notes on the basic dialog
  Grammar notes
  1. Xxx… xxx for future time
  2. Xxx as an indicator of excess with xxx and xxx
  Drills
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 14: Link
  Basic dialog
  Grammar notes
  1. Xxx and xxx
  2. Extent of distant constructions
  3. Xxx indicating ‘existence’
  Drills
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 15: Link
  Basic dialog
  Questions on the interview
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 16: Link
  Basic dialog
  Drills
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 17: Link
  Basic dialog
  Grammar notes
  1. Xxx / xxx used to indicate direction of motion
  2. Prepositions in compounds
  Drills
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 18: Link
  Basic dialog
  Notes on the basic dialog
  Grammar notes
  1. Sentence embedding
  Drills
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 19: Link
  Basic dialog
  Grammar drills
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
• Lesson 20: Link
  Basic episode
  Questions on the basic episode
  Exercises
  Vocabulary
• Text glossary