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Explain the meanings of these statements. Pay attention to the words in italics




Scan the passage and answer the following questions.

 

1 What proves that children read more today than ever?

2 What proves that children’s books have become

extremely popular?

3 Which age group makes the largest readership?

4 What caused the unheard-of interest in children’s

literature?

5 Contrary to a popular opinion, what kind of readers are

children?

6 What kind of ‘food’ is books for them?

7 Children are demanding readers, aren’t they?

8 What proves that children’s writers are no longer

regarded as inferior to adult writers?

9 How do children contribute to ‘promoting’ a writer’s

books?

10 What areas do children’s books cover?

11 What makes the list of themes covered in children’s books inexhaustible?

12 What efforts are now being made by the publishers?

 

 

53 Who is who? What is what? Identify the names from the passage.

Model: Books Marketing

Books Marketing is the organization that conducted the survey mentioned in the passage.

 

Wendy Cooling

Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling

David Almo

Skellig

Juia Eccleshare

Orion

Scholastic

The Seeing Stone

Kevin-Crossley-Holland

Jacqueline Wilson

Ann Fine

Bologna

The Frankfurt Book Fair

 

 

 

1 … doom merchants were predicting that the growth in video games and the rise of the Internet would sound the death knell for children’s literature.

2 …the children’s book market, which traditionally was seen as a poor cousin to the more lucrative and successful adult market…

3 Children’s books are going through an incredibly fertile period. There’s a real buzz arousnd them.

4 … there is little doubt that the boom has been fuelled by the bespectacled apprentice Harry Potter.

5 The current buzz around the publication of the fourth Harry Potter beats anything in the world of adult literature.

6 … it seems as though children find a special kind of mental nourishment within the printed page.

7 Children are demanding readers, if they don’t get it in two pages, they’ll drop it.

8 Some feted adult writers would kill for the sales.

9 UK publishing outfit Orion recently negotiated a six-figure sum from US company Scholastic for the Seeing Stone.

10 It helps that once smitten, children are loyal and even fanatical consumers.

11 Children’s books are surprisingly relevant to contemporary life.

12 But Anne Fine … is concerned that the British literati still ignore children’s culture.

13 It feels as if you’re able to step into the store of mythology and ancient stories that run through all societies and encounter the great themes: love and loss and death and redemption.

14 At the moment the race is on to find the next Harry Potter.

15 …and for children’s authors, who have traditionally suffered the lowest profile

55 How would you interpret the title of the passage? A twist in the tale means an unexpected feature or change in a situation or series of events.

² Listening Comprehension

56 Listen to the beginning of 2 fairy tales. One is an English tale and the other is Russian. Can you identify them? Write their names in the blanks below.

1 …………………………………………..

2……………………………………………

 

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57 Text structure and division




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