Bibliography, bookworm, reviews, illustrations, borrow, published

Exercises

THE WORLD OF BOOKS

UNIT XV

I. Listen and read. [ r]

free present tree very treat dream

friend principle through sorry try dry

arrest problem throw quarrel true draw

shrill press thread merry trade drive

shrewd prove right forever traffic dress

shrug prisoner bride for instance trolley drop

bring brown red

breath right

1. Rack your brains.

2. Role arrived on the stroke of three.

3. Try to reduce rule to practice.

4. There is neither rhyme nor reason in it.

5. Ruth is hungry.

6. When angry count to a hundred.

7. Truth is stranger than fiction.

II.Remember these proverbs, and quotations. What do you think of them? How do you understand these words.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

A room without books is like a body without soul.

Treat books with care as good friends.

Reading is to the mind what exercise to the body.

Books and friends should be few but good.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

R.Emerson

Tell me what you read and I will tell you what you are.

W.Goethe

Reading is the best learning.

A.Pushkin

Bad books are worse than useless; they are harmful.

L.Tolstoy

Books are great things as long as you know how to use them.

A.Block

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

F.Bacon

III.What genres of books do you know? Complete the spider gram with the words concerning genres of books of types of publications.

Which of them can be found on the shelves of your room?

Which of them do you use very often\seldom\very rarely?

Which of them are very helpful for you?

IV.Fill in the table:

Books can tell us a lot about	Books help and teach us to
lives of famous people	discover new things
politics	Explore new ideas

V.Match the words with their definitions:

1) an article

2) an atlas

3) an encyclopedia

4) a magazine

5) a biography

6) a novel

7) a poem

8) a dictionary

9) a paperback

10) a textbook

11) a bookworm

12) bibliography

13) review

14) fiction

15) a cookery book

a)a book that is used to study a school subject

b) a publication that comes out weekly or monthly

c)a reference book with maps of the world

d) a book of word definitions

e)a book or set of books giving information about every branch of knowledge with articles in the ABC order

f) usually a cheap book in a soft cover

g) a story about a real person

h) a piece of writing in a newspaper

i) a list of books on one subject

j) a short piece of writing (usually rhymed) expressing a deep feeling or thought

k) an article that critically examines a new book

l) stories, novels and romances about imaginary people and events

m) a book with recipes of dishes

n) a story about people who are not real

o) a person who is very fond of reading

VI.Fill in the following sentences with the give prepositions:

By, in, with, from, of, to, on

1. I borrow this book ______ the library.

2. I read it_____ a book.

3. You’ll have to look ____the meaning ___ a dictionary.

4. “Hamlet” is a tragedy ____Shakespeare.

5. Books are wonderful source ___ knowledge.

6. I’d like to relax ____ a good book for the rest of the day.

7. I believe that reference books should be ___every home.

8. Nowadays books are sold ___ large numbers.

9. The librarians said the book was ___ the top shelf.

10. Do you like to lend books __your friends?

V.Which is the odd word in each group and why?

1. book novel short story poem

2. atlas dictionary paperback encyclopedia

3. textbook article dictionary guidebook

4. magazine biography newspaper booklet

VI.Put each of the following words in its correct place in the passage below:

I love books. I love to read. I am a real (1) _____, and I love to visit book shops, just looking briefly at one book after another. I look at the (2)____, the photos or drawings. I sometimes look at the (3) ____back, which is a list of other books on the same subject. And I use the library a lot. I (4)____ two or three books a week. Friends often recommend books to me, and I also read (5)___ in the newspapers. I don’t always agree with them, but anyway they let me know what new books are being (6) ___.

VII.Match the following works to their authors. Use Passive Voice.

Example: “Martin Eden” was written by Jack London.

1) “Treasure Island” a) Charles Dickens

2) “The Happy Prince” b) W. Shakespeare

3) “Oliver Twist” c) Beecher-Stove

4)”Robinson Crusoe” d) Oscar Wilde

5) “Tom Sawyer” e) R. L. Stevenson

6)“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” f) Daniel Dafoe

7) “Gulliver’s Travels” g) Mark Twain

8) “Martin Eden” h) Herbert Wells

9) “Hamlet” i) Jack London

10) “The Invisible Man” j) Jonathan Swift

11) “My Heart’s in the Highlands” k) Robert Burns

12) “Mary Poppins” l) Lewis Caron

13) “Alice in Wonderland” m) Rudyard Kipling

14) “Jungle Book” n) Alan Milne

15) “Winnie-the-Pooh” o) Pamela Travers

VIII.What kind of writes were these people?

1) Lewis Carol a) a playwriter

2) William Shakespeare b) a children’s writer

3) Agatha Christie c) a poet

4) Alexander Pushkin d) a novelist

5)Anna Akhmatova e)a humorist

6) Charles Dickens f) a poetess

7) Robert Burns g) a detective story writer

8) M. Zoshchenko h) a scientific writer

9) Herbert Wells i) a poet

IX.Speaking. Books teach us a lot of different things. What are your ideas about it? Fill in the chat.

books	about	teach us to
	travelers	be true friends
	on history	understand each other
Fairy tales	About nature	be noble and hardworking
Fables		love nature and take care of it
Novels		help animals and birds
Adventures		understand what is wrong and what is right
Poems		be serious and industrious
Thrillers		be polite with people
Fiction books		be attentive to people
Classics		be kind and clever, honest and modest
Science books		love Homeland
		understand he beauty of nature, protect nature
		develop our imagination

X.Literary heroes can teach you a lot, too. What do they teach you? Fill in the chat.

Heroes\Characters	from	teach us to be\not to be
		kind-hearted, generous
		greedy, rude
	fables	boastful, inactive
		unskillful or undisciplined
	fairy tales	unkind, inattentive
		unfriendly or cruel

XI. Read an example of book review.

Harry Potter

J. K. Rowling's books about Harry Potter have been one of the most sensational successes of recent years, and judging by the first volume, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, they are a fine addition to English children's fantasy literature.

The central character, Harry Potter, is orphaned when his parents are killed by the evil wizard Voldemort, and is taken in by his aunt and uncle, who are Muggles (ordinary, non-magical people). Harry is rather out of place with his relations, but things improve greatly for him when he goes to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - except that one of the staff is in league with Voldemort. The miror characters such as Ron and Hermione are very clearly drawn, and the three form a closely-knit team of friends.

The plot centers on Harry's struggles to save the world, and part of the attraction of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone comes from the setting of an English public school, complete with houses and schoolboy adventures. Rowling adds some delightful novelties of her own, such as Quiddich, a seven-a-side ball game played on broomsticks, and the whole book is pulled together by some excellent story-telling.

The Potter books, however, are by no means perfect. The limitations of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone become clearer when it is compared with another children's novel in which a neophyte wizard attends a school for wizards - Ursula Le Guin`s A Wizard of Earthsea. This works just as well as a story, but is far more imaginative. Where Rowling simply re-uses superficial popular ideas about magic, Le Guin constructs a complete new world of her own. Le Guin also deals with subjects such as coming of age, and her hero is rounded in places where Harry Potter is no more than one-dimensional.

So Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone would be a great Christmas present for children who haven't read it yet. Mum and Dad will enjoy it too. But A Wizard of Earthsea is all that and more, and should not be overlooked simply because it is less well known.

XIII. Use the given tips to retell the book\story you have read.

Some Tips on How to Work with the Book\Story

1. Here is the title of the story. What do you think the story is about?

2. Skim the text very quickly and find the answers to the questions.

3. Give a short summery of the story.

4. Divide the text into 3, 4 etc. parts, give the title to every part.

5. Find the word(s) in these sentences that do(es) not refer to the text.]

6. Answer the questions to the text.

7. Find the key sentences in the text (in each part).

8. Can you give another title to the story?

9. Prove the fact that…

10. Tell your classmates what you think about the main character of the story.

11. Describe the hero’s appearance.

12. Read the story and formulate its main idea.

13. Read the story and try to retell it using the given words and word combinations.

14. Pick out the sentences in the text which might explain the title.

15. Say which of the proverbs following the story makes the best nding to it.

16. Look at the pictures, choose the one which describes the episode from the text.

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