30. Answer the following questions:

What do generally students go to the library for?

Have you ever taken any information from the library for a specific purpose? When did you last go to the library?

What kind of information did you get there?

31. Are you a book expert? Check up yourself. Put each extract into one of the categories.

1. A Parliament however, was still in existence, and was not to be won. On the twentieth of January, 1629, Sir John Eliot, a great man who had been active in The Petition of Right, brought forward other strong resolutions against the King’s chief instruments, and called upon the Speaker to put them to the vote.

a) fiction

b) science fiction

2. As they came to the fisherfolk’s village they saw why it was so silent. Every last villager had been slain, hacked down by swords or axes. Some of the blades were still buried in skulls of men and women alike. “The Dark Empire!” said Hawkmoon. But the Warrior in Jet and Cold shook his head. “Not their work. Not their weapons. Not their way.” “Then … what?” murmured Oladahn, shivering. “The cult?” The warrior did not answer. Instead, he reined in his horse and dismounted, walking heavity toward the nearest corpse. “The power of the Runestaff”, Moorcock

3. “Polotsky chronicles” – 14 hours The cathedrals, churches, museums, houses and streets of the old time Polotsk, the native place of St. Efrasinia Polotskaya, have preserved our country’s thousand-year-old culture. This city gave to the world such geniuses as Francisk Skaryna, Simeon Polotsky, Kirill Tyrovsky. You will visit the museum of Belarusian book printing, Sophiisky Cathedral, the nunnery and enjoy organ music.

“Beresinsky reserve” – 8 hours You will have an opportunity to learn about various representatives of Belarusian flora and fauna. You will hear about the ways of protecting endangered animals and plants, visit the museum and walk along the ecological trail.

c) biography

d) fantasy

4. It was just a smooth round metal ball, less than a metre in diameter. Although it was still hot from its journey through the huge nothingness of space, it looked quite harmless. But what was it, exactly? “Meteor”, J. Wyndham

5. Altering a programme You can alter the programme has started, you can only reset it by turning the programme selector dial to O and then you can select the new programme. Start it by depressing the START/PAUSE button.

e) guidebook

f) instruction booklet

6. “The car was a white Mercedes with white leather upholstery. Emma said it looked like an ambulance. “Well, pick another color, then,” said Claire. And when Emma put an admiring hand on the hood of a cherry-red, two-seat Mercedes sportscar with black leather opholstery, Claire nodded casually to the salesman, “We’ll take that one, too.” “Pot of Gold”, J. Michael

Leisure W.H.Davies What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty’s glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. A poor life this is if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

g) non-fiction

h) poetry

Mozart, who was born on January 27 1756 in the Austrian city of Salzburg, was neither the first nor the last child prodigy, but he was certainly the greatest.