- •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.
Writing
Write an essay arguing for or against the following statement: “Books will never disappear”.
Have your say
Choose one quotation and comment upon it.
“If people stop reading they will stop thinking.” (Voltaire)
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” (Ray Bradbury)
Take part in the class discussion “Books Shall Survive”.
Before preparing for this discussion consider the following arguments for and against the survival of books; use them as theses in your discussion. Choose the side you are going to support. Do not use only the arguments given below. Provide your arguments with illustrations. At the end of the discussion with the help of the discussion leader, work out a conclusion about the future of books.
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1. Books are the memory of mankind which retains the wisdom and experience of the past. |
1. We should live in the present, not in the past. |
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2. Books enrich our experience with that of other people and so broaden our outlook. A reader lives a richer life than a non-reader. |
2. We should not substitute the imaginary experience of non-existent people for real living. We should live, not read. |
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3. The time spent on a good book is never wasted. Reading is a rewarding pastime, and it’s more than can be said about some other entertainments. |
3. The pace of modern life is too fast to waste time on reading. |
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4. An active spiritual life is inconceivable without constant reading. One must make a habit of it. |
4. There are lots of other ways to occupy one’s spare time: sports, films, music, TV. Why read? |
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5. Books are an indispensable source of information and self-education. |
5. With the development of science and teaching films, books as a source of information and self-education are no longer needed. |
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6. Loss of books will mean for humanity loss of all intellectual life. |
6. Reading is a kind of intellectual work requiring a certain effort. People want a good time and a nice rest after their work, not more effort. |
Brush up everything you have done and get ready for a round-table talk about books and reading.
Memorize the given quotations. Write a 3-page essay stating your reaction to the one you like best.
“Tell me what you read, and I will tell you what you are.”
J.W. Goethe (1749-1832)
“No furniture is so charming as books; even if you never open them and read a single word.”
Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
“I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all.”
S. Maugham (1874-1965)
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
J. Addison (1672-1719)
“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”
Edward Phelps (1822-1900)
“Some books leave us free, and some books make us free.”
Ralph W. Emerson (1803-1882)
“Every burnt book enlightens the world.”
Ralph W. Emerson (1803-1882)
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
“A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it you can't expect an apostle to look out.”
George Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”
Theodore Parker (1810-1860)
Look at the pictures. What message are they trying to get across?