The goblet of fire breaks records in the u.S. And britain
July 14, 2000
When HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE went on sale at 12:01 a.m., copies began to fly off the shelves like magic. Within a few days, the book had smashed book sales records in the United States and in Britain.
The book's publisher, Scholastic, printed 3.8 million copies of THE GOBLET OF FIRE. Combined with the 2,000,000 copies printed in Britain, 5,000,000 copies were printed, worldwide — a record-breaking number. Even so, many bookstores sold every copy they had during the first weekend the book was on sale. Some were sold out by Saturday morning or even Friday night!
On Wednesday, July 12, Scholastic announced that it would print 3,000,000 more copies of the book, bringing the total number to 6.8 million. That's more than THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN sold, in all of 1999, and more than twice as much as the biggest-selling book of last year, THE TESTAMENT, by John Grisham. So don't worry—if you haven't been able to get your hands on a copy of THE GOBLET OF FIRE yet, there will, soon be plenty more out there!
In Britain. Harry's fans were just as excited about the book's July 8 publication. More than 372,000 copies were sold in Britain on July 8, easily breaking Britain's record for the biggest number of a book has sold on its first day. (The old British record was 110,000 copies in three days, set by Delia Smith, a cookbook writer.) The first day it was available HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE was bought by roughly one in every 150 people in Britain, in 1999, Book 1 was Britain's biggest-selling book, selling 503,000 copies.
Just some facts:
The number of copies sold by Monday morning July 10 was 502,000.
The number of copies sold in the first hour the book was on sale is 14,000 — that's 1,900 books per minute!
The number of copies delivered by Amazon.com on Saturday, July 8 was 250,000.
Altogether these books would weigh 675,000 pounds.
If they were lined up end to end, they would stretch 36 miles.
The total number of books ordered at Amazon.com by Saturday night was 400,000.
The number of copies sold by only one shop by Monday, July 10 was 200,000!
The adjective Semantic Classification
adjectives
qualitative relative
(denote properties of the substance (describe properties of substances
directly) through relations to materials,
e.g. great, simple, places, time or to some actions)
magnificent, etc. e.g. wooden, metal, Hungarian. monthly, initial, etc.
Structural Classification
a djectives
simple derivative compound
new, fresh, musical, messy, colour-blind.
green careless well-known
*TASK 73. Sort out the adjectives given in the box below into the three columns according to their structure.
fresh wonderful intelligent fluent next shy
dark-blue snobbish top-secret cloudless raven-black dark
unique conservative newly-wedded efficient proud simple
green confusing ready-made enjoyable greedy bluish
big worn-out nasty tax-free nice clean
Simple |
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Compound |
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**TASK 74. Study the most typical adjective endings (suffixes) and supply 3 examples for each of the ones given in the table below.
Ending (suffix) |
Examples |
-able |
changeable, |
-ible |
legible, |
-ic |
Heroic |
-ish |
girlish, |
-ive |
expensive, |
-ful |
Careful |
-less |
careless, |
-ous |
dangerous, |
-y |
dirty, |
-ant |
elegant, |
-en |
wooden, |
-al |
medical, |