6. Work in groups

Group #1.

Match the words with their definitions

1. A library

2. A librarian

3. A reading room

4. A teenager’s romance

5. Grown-up books

a) is a place where you can read books and newspapers

b) is a story of love, adventure, mystery with happier events than those of real life

c)is a person who works with books in the library

d) is a place where you can borrow books

e) are the books written for adults

Key: 1d, 2c, 3a, 4b, 5e.

Group #2. You have some information about writers. Your task is to write down their names.

An English writer who was born in Ireland in 1667. His novel “The Gulliver’s Travel” is known all over the world (Jonathan Swift).

A famous English children’s writer. His first book appeared in 1865. It was a fairy-tale about a small girl and her adventures in wonderful land (Lewis Carroll).

An English writer, he was born in India. One of books was called “The Jungle Book” where the main hero is Mowgli. (Rudyard Kipling)

The main hero of his book is Robinson Crusoe. (Daniel Defoe)

A British writer. He was born in Scotland and created a famous character – the detective Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).

A modern English writer, she was born 1965, she wrote her first book at 5 or 6 years old, her first book about Harry Potter was published in 1997 (J. K. Rowling).

Group #3.

Open the brackets

His favourite book Robinson Crusoe .... ......(to write) by a famous writer Daniel Defoe. It ...... ........(to publish) in 1719. Its main character…. (to live) on an island after his ship sinks. They say the book…. .… (to base) on a true story. No wonder, it …. ….. (to translate) into many languages.

7. Presentation of pupils’ projects “My Favourite Book”

You had to prepare your project about writers and their books. We hope that they are very interesting. Let’s start.

8. Summing-Up

Today we have got a lot of information about books and now we have to sum up. So, why do we need books? Express your ideas.

I hope you understand that without books our life will be empty and boring. Read good books and enjoy them.

9. Hometask

Your hometask will be to write a composition “Books in my life”.