- •Unit I What to Read? How to Read?
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •Types of Books
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •Reading
- •Listening
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •Reading
- •How One Should Read a Book
- •Writing
- •Have your say
- •Reading Is Interaction
- •Act it out
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •Reading
- •Writing
- •II. Adjectives applied to books
- •III. Aspects of a novel or a story
- •1. Subject, Theme
- •3. Setting, set
- •4. Characters
- •6. Ideas, views, attitudes
- •7. Style
- •8. Spirit, atmosphere, mood, feeling
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •In each set, find the odd-one-out, explain your choice.
- •My Favourite Escape: Books
- •Listening
- •Reading
- •The queen of crime
- •Act it out
- •Interview with an author
- •Have your say
- •Listening
- •Reading
- •Writing
- •An appraisal of a book
- •Have your say
- •II. Read books, rather than about books
- •IV. Read rapidly
- •V. Read by snatches
- •VI. Read what you like
- •VII. Read what you do not like
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •Read the Better Magazines and Books
- •Reading
- •What Does it Take to Be a Good Reader?
- •Listening
- •Writing
- •Familiar Quotations
- •Have your say
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •Reading
- •Why Trashy Books Are So Good for Little Boys
- •Writing
- •A letter
- •Act it out
- •Have your say
- •Interview 10 people (first-year students, your relations, friends, etc.) to find out how they select books.
- •Unit 4 how to develop the habit of reading
- •My several worlds
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •Reading
- •Listening
- •Writing
- •Act it out
- •Have your say
- •How Shall The Habit of Reading Be Cultivated?
- •Unit 5 will books survive?
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •Reading
- •Writing
- •Read a good powerbook lately?
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •In each set find the odd-one-out; explain your choice.
- •Reading
- •In the article, find the words that mean approximately the same as the following definition.
- •Death of the book or a novel way to read?
- •Act it out
- •Birth of the book to end all books
- •Have your say
- •III books shall survive
- •Reading
- •Burn them or bury them, you can’t beat books
- •Writing
- •Have your say
- •Brush up everything you have done and get ready for a round-table talk about books and reading.
Unit I What to Read? How to Read?
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Study the table "What to Read and How to Read?" and the Vocabulary Notes. Learn the new vocabulary.
Explain why different people (children, teenagers, young people, students, elderly people, business people, etc.) read, what they read and how.
WHAT TO READ
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If… |
read…, |
they choose… / pick out… | |||
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people children grown-ups housewives students teachers |
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fiction: |
prose: |
a historical a psychological an adventure a travel a mystery/ crime/horror a love a humorous a detective a fable a fairy tale a thriller science-fiction |
novel short novel long story story short story novelette |
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for pleasure for instruction from habit from curiosity in search of some information to learn something to find talk and discourse to see if a new book is good out of snobbery to kill time to escape from reality
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non- fiction: |
poetry:
drama:
periodicals:
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a poem a book of verses rhymes limericks
a play a comedy a tragedy
a newspaper a magazine a journal
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they… |
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memoirs an autobiography an essay a diary a piece of satire a do-it-yourself manual a book about politics | |||
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pore over a book skim through a book leaf/thumb through a book dip into a book glance over a book browse through a magazine read bits here and there in quantities by snatches slowly carefully with pencil in hand making notes fixing important items quickly rapidly freely silently to themselves deep into the night are lost in a book | |||||
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a best-seller a second-hand book a rare book a classic a manuscript | |||||
AND HOW TO READ
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because it… |
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enlightens people’s thinking develops mental ability good memory broadens their outlook improves/enriches their mind gives them fresh ideas has educational value makes them think = sets them thinking helps to understand other people better to take their bearings in life situations enriches/expands their experience reflects wisdom and experience of many generations |
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because it is… |
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thrilling interesting entertaining amusing useful exciting pleasant the best way to spend spare time a rewarding pastime a good relaxation a refuge from all the distress of life a source/a means of information and self-education a guide and adviser on the difficult path of life the memory of mankind which retains the wisdom and experience of the past |