- •Introduction
- •Thematic vocabulary focus
- •1.1. Study the thematic vocabulary, be ready to answer the questions about books and reading.
- •1.2. Study the idioms. Get ready to give their Ukrainian equivalents. Make up your own examples with the vocabulary.
- •1.3. Paraphrase the sentences using the idioms.
- •1.4. Fill in the gaps in the following sentences.
- •Reading and speaking section 1. Reading in your life
- •1.1. Read the poem “Unfolding Bud”. How does the author show that a poem “at a first glance” is like a tiny bud?
- •1.2. Express in your own words the idea of the poem.
- •1.3. Read the article below and be ready to give concise answers to the highlighted questions. EnJoying literature
- •2.2. Read the article quickly to find out what the following numbers refer to.
- •The Joy of Reading Leaves Men on the Shelf
- •2.3. Now read again more carefully and answer these questions.
- •2.4. Read the extract about oral reading and summarize each paragraph in one sentence.
- •2.5. Read the extract and answer the questions. How fast can you read?
- •3.2. The text on Literacy has six paragraphs, labelled a-f. Read the text and choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below.
- •Literacy
- •Section 2. Books and children
- •1.1. You will read an article written by a mother whose child started reading later than others. Before you read, in groups discuss the following.
- •1.2. The following words and phrases appear in the passage. Look at the title, then in pairs discuss how they might be connected with the subject of children learning to read.
- •1.3. Read the first and the last sentence of each paragraph. Can you guess what each paragraph is about? Now, read quickly and check. You can make me do it, but you can’t make me like it
- •1.4. Read the article. Six paragraphs have been removed. Insert them from the paragraphs (a – g). There is one paragraph you don’t need to use.
- •1.5. Match the words from the article with the definitions below, then use them in your own sentences. You may change the form of the verbs if you wish.
- •1.6. Explain the meaning of the following phrases taken from the article.
- •2.2. In groups, discuss the following problems.
- •2.3. Read the following tips for parents. Tick those ones which you think are the most important / helpful. What tips for parents would you add to encourage a child to read? Reading Tips 4 Parents
- •Section 3. Literature
- •1.1. Read the article, learn the literary terms. Forms ot literature
- •1.2. Fill in the appropriate word in the passages below.
- •Types of Books
- •Literary Elements
- •2.1. Read the text. Then circle the best answer: a, b, or c.
- •2.2. What do the underlined words from the text refer to? Circle a or b.
- •Section 4. Great writers
- •If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
- •A love story
- •Sonnet 43
- •2.1. Read the article about the great English writer Charles Dickens and highlight the most important facts in his biography. Charles Dickens
- •2.2. Answer the questions based on the information from the article.
- •2.3. Recall one of Charles Dickens’ books that you have read and write a blurb for a publishing company (a short description by the publisher of the contents of the book).
- •3.1. Read the article about Washington Irving and highlight the most important facts in his biography. The first american classic
- •3.2. Look through the article about w. Irving again and find equivalents for the following.
- •3.3. Answer the questions about the first American classic.
- •Borrowing Books
- •1.2. Choose the right word or words.
- •1.3. Read the following library rules and give a foreign student some advice concerning borrowing books from a University library in Ukraine. How to borrow books
- •2.1. Look at this list of topics.
- •2.2. Answer the following questions.
- •Section 6. What makes a best-seller?
- •1.1. Read the article. Put the tips about writing a bestseller in the correct places 1-9 in the text.
- •So you want to write a best-seller?
- •1.2. Read the article again. Are these statements true (t) or false (f), according to the article?
- •1.3. The three boxes below contain useful vocabulary for writing about a book. Match each title to a box.
- •Harry Potter’s magician
- •2.2. Without looking back at the text, match the two halves of the phrases. Then read again and check.
- •3.1. Read the article. Which of these superheroes are being described?
- •Greatest superheroes of all time
- •3.2. Read the article again and answer the questions.
- •3.3. Read the text and the following statements on its content. Mark whether they are true (t) or false (f). My first book
- •Writing
- •Coherence and Cohesion
- •1.1. Which of these paragraphs has a problem with coherence? Which has a problem with cohesion?
- •1.2. Find three linking devices from the following list to match each of the headings below.
- •1.3. Rewrite Text a using reference words and linking devices to link the sentences more successfully and avoid unnecessary repetition.
- •Book reviews
- •2.1. You are going to read five reviews of popular science books. Answer the questions by choosing from the reviews (a-e). The reviews may be chosen more than once.
- •2.3. Which words and phrases in the reviews are used to describe plot, writing style and characters? Explain the following expressions in your own words:
- •2.5. Write a review (200-250 words) of your book. Before you start writing:
- •Supplementary materials
- •Pronounce the following words correctly.
- •Prove that:
- •3. Give your arguments for and against eBooks.
- •Charlotte Bronte
- •Oscar wilde
- •Oscar Wilde’s maxims
- •Library Collections
- •The British Library
- •1.1. Listen to three people talking about a book they have read recently. Take notes about it under the following headings.
- •2.1. Listen to Jerry talking about a book he enjoyed reading, the novel ‘How to be good’ by Nick Hornby. Which sentence best summarizes the story in the book?
- •2.3. Choose the correct answer. Fill in the blanks and write the exact words that Jerry uses.
- •Task 3. ‘After the lunch…’ (08 – 8.Mp3)
- •3.1. Four lines of the following poem are left out. Write the missing lines. After the lunch ...
- •4.4. Listen again to the excerpt from the radio play and write down the modern equivalents of the phrases and sentences in Task 3. Task 5. Smithereens (Recording 3.2.Mp3)
- •5.1. Read the poem “Smithereens” by Roger McGough, a popular modern poet.
- •Self – Study Assignment № 2 Suggested Topics for Project Work
- •Original passage from ‘Pride and Prejudice’
- •In a library
- •Bibliography
- •Contents
3.2. Look through the article about w. Irving again and find equivalents for the following.
e.g. to begin to like smth – to develop a lasting fondness for the theatre, music, art.
- to leave school;
- to fall in love with smb;
- not to be married;
- to write essays for a journal;
- to take exams to become a barrister;
- to promote one’s literary success;
- to start one’s business again;
- to lose money and to be broke;
- to buy smth;
- to be offered to become a mayor;
- not to agree to become a mayor.
3.3. Answer the questions about the first American classic.
Why is Washington Irving remembered?
Why was he named Washington?
What were his likes and hobbies in the childhood?
Why did Irving remain a bachelor?
What was his first literary experience? What pseudonym did he choose?
What are his most famous stories?
How long and in what countries did he serve as a diplomat?
What nominations was he offered but declined in his home country?
Where did he live the rest of his life?
What’s the literary heritage of Washington Irving?
3.4. Get ready to speak about Washington Irving’s personal life, his career as a writer and one of his stories. You can analyse “Rip Van Winkle” or “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”.
SECTION 5. BOOKS AND LIBRARIES
Task 1
1.1. Read the article focusing your attention on the vocabulary to the topic ‘Library. Borrowing books’.
Borrowing Books
“Just stop buying books! We haven’t got the room and besides, it’s a waste of money,” said practical Mrs Johnston to her son David. “Why don’t you borrow books from the local lending library? There you can obtain everything under the sun — fiction, non-fiction, science fiction, detective stories, classics and even the latest bestsellers if you get on the right side of the librarian in charge of that particular section.”
Life is hard for a bookworm, who loves to read quietly and hates being nagged. The solution to this problem, David thought, is more frequent visits to the local library reading room, where you can browse among all kinds of periodicals: professional journals, weekly magazines, daily newspapers, comics, film reviews, even children’s magazines and art books. He had to admit that there was something in what Mother kept saying. There’s no sense in amassing expensive books like fat dictionaries, forty-volume encyclopedia, ‘Who’s Who’, various manuals, handbooks and reference books covering a vast range of subjects, when they are available in the reference library on open shelves. The trouble is that you can only look up general information but you can’t take these books home. If you want to borrow professional literature, they can order it for you through the inter-library lending scheme.
The main part of the library is, of course, the general section. Here you can look up the index number in the authors’ or subject catalogues and the librarian will lend you the book after you have filled in a slip. David soon found that Sheila O’Connor, the young librarian, who showed him how to fill in the form to obtain his membership card, was an additional excuse for going to the library and that is why he took his mother’s advice quite seriously.
He began to pay the librarian slight compliments to butter her up. He developed a new system. First he borrowed three thick novels at a time to save her bother. Later he found it more convenient to drop in more often and borrow one book only, not to be put to shame by receiving reminders from this attractive girl. Then somehow he found he had much less time to read.