1. These kids do not like reading for different reasons.

• In the list below find the best piece of advice for their parents in each case.

Most books are so thick that they make me frightened.

I don’t like reading!

It’s difficult and boring.

1. c

   don’t like to read what my parents want me to read!

   

   3;

   an’t find time for reading. I’m too busy.

Consider a later bed time. Say: “ I expect you to be in bed by 9 p.m. If you are not tired you can read until you are ready to sleep.”

Find out what your kid’s friends are reading. Don’t be too negative. Try to understand his interests.

Read a book aloud to your child. This is a great way to communicate your own enthusiasm for reading.

Try magazines. They are visually attractive and the texts are shorter.

UNIT 9 Lessons 1-2

2. In the box find the word for every line of the poem to make it rhyme

• b

  (6)

  ■(

  7)
  irds end friend hide kings things wide words

WHAT IS A BOOK?

A

(1)

-(2)

_(3)

book is pages, pictures and. A book is animals, people and.

A

J (4) - (5)

book is stories of queens and. Poems and songs — so many _ Curled in a corner where I can _

W

-(8)

ith a book I can journey far and. Though it’s only paper from end to.

A book is a very special

Lora Daunt

3A Read the extracts from literary texts and find the reasons each character has for reading.

• Put a tick in the right space in the table below.

WILKIE COLLINS

The Moonstone

From then on Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the old ones. [...] It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoon. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went in olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

From Matilda by Roald Dahl

Reasons for reading	Text A	Text В
to get advice for life
to escape reality
to raise their spirits
to get to know new things

I

am not superstitious; I have read a heap of books in my time; I am a scholar in my own way. Though turned seventy, I possess an active memory, and legs to correspond. You are not to take it, if you please, as the saying of an ignorant man, when I express my opinion that such a book as Robinson Crusoe never was written, and never will be written again. I have tried that book for years — generally in combination with a pipe of tobacco — and I have found it my friend in need in all the necessities of this mortal life. When my spirits are bad — Robinson Crusoe. When I want advice — Robinson Crusoe.

From The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins