The Silent Way: Word Charts
These 12 wall charts present most of the functional words of the language: about 500 of them.
There is very little "luxury vocabulary". This means pronouns, articles, prepositions, common adjectives and adverbs, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs and a few other common verbs have their place, but only a very limited number of nouns.
The order of the words is roughly that used in a beginners' class learning English with the Silent Way.
The color code is the same as that of the Sound/Color Rectangle Chart and the Fidel (spelling charts). The use of color enables students to read directly in languages with a different alphabet or characters and to pronounce correctly what they read.
This is the first in the set of American English charts:
