- •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. 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.
List of Headings
Early mention of the problems
The link between adult and child literacy
A new attempt to improve literacy
The great variety of reading material
Present levels of adult illiteracy
Lack of progress
Write the correct number І-VI for each paragraph.
Paragraph Heading
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D
E
F
Literacy
(A) We live in an age when we are surrounded by information. Apart from information in notices, books and newspapers, we receive information in our email, from the Internet, and from text messages on our mobile phones. So it is ironic that with so much information available to us, more people than ever before are unable to access it because they are not able to read and write.
(B) Adult literacy is a very important, but often overlooked part of any basic education programme. Most programmes focus on children, but research and experience show that if children come from homes in which the adults have low literacy skills, those children will have a very high chance of becoming low-literate adults themselves.
(C) The number of illiterate adults in the world is now over 900 million, nearly equivalent to the population of India. Two out of every three of those adults are women. That shocking figure gets worse if you include individuals who are not completely literate, so they lack the level of skill required to be successful in the family, at work, and in the community.
(D) The international community has been calling attention to the problem of illiteracy for a long time. As early as 1948, education was among the basic human rights included in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. More recently, at a meeting of the World Conference on Education in 1990, it was stated that ‘illiteracy is a significant problem in all countries, industrialised and developing’. Delegates to the meeting agreed to try and reduce the adult illiteracy rate to one-half of its 1990 level by the year 2000, and to reduce the difference between male and female illiteracy rates. The goal was repeated at various conferences throughout that decade.
(E) However, by the end of the century statistical evidence showed that efforts to improve literacy were still failing. Although some progress had been made, 113 million children still remained out of school and although the overall numbers of literate adults had risen, many remained illiterate.
(F) At the beginning of the new millennium, an organisation called the World Education Forum published six education aims. These range from providing care and education in early childhood, to improving the quality of all aspects of education. One of its goals was a 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women. In addition, in 2001 every member of the United Nations General Assembly voted to call the years 2003 to 2012 ‘the Literacy Decade’.