Một vài loại tiếng Anh đơn giản đã được dùng bắt đầu từ thập niên 1970 trong các giao dịch quốc tế. Trong đó có loại của Đài Phát thanh Hoa Kỳ (Voice of America) tự giới hạn chính họ với một bộ từ vựng gồm từ | I I This is an instrument for measuring heat. This is a dock. A dock is an instrument J for measuring time. I I I I t ------------ Very warm Warm Cold This is a measure. It is a yard measure. There are three feet in a yard. i I I I There are twelve inches I I I I These are her feet. 1 . . . This is John s foot. It is ten inches long. 97 The walls and floor of the fridge are thick. I rjzzzzzzzi J Warm IflCold Warm air M air w a f This is a thin line. This is a thick line. I The thick walls keep the heat of the room out of the fridge. i They keep the heat from the milk. Ỉ The cold air in the J fridge keeps the milk pood. I I I John is having a drink. Í He is having a drink of milk from a glass. j The milk is good. John is happy. This milk Is not good. It is bad. John Is not happy. 98 This is meat. This is bread. Mary keeps the meat in the fridge. Mary does not keep the bread in the fridge. She keeps it in a bread-box. This is butter. This is cheese. We make cheese from milk. We get milk from cows. We make butter from milk. Mary keeps the butter with the milk in the fridge. She keeps the cheese there. .
