- •Unit I What to Read? How to Read?
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •Types of Books
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •Reading
- •Listening
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •Reading
- •How One Should Read a Book
- •Writing
- •Have your say
- •Reading Is Interaction
- •Act it out
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •Reading
- •Writing
- •II. Adjectives applied to books
- •III. Aspects of a novel or a story
- •1. Subject, Theme
- •3. Setting, set
- •4. Characters
- •6. Ideas, views, attitudes
- •7. Style
- •8. Spirit, atmosphere, mood, feeling
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •In each set, find the odd-one-out, explain your choice.
- •My Favourite Escape: Books
- •Listening
- •Reading
- •The queen of crime
- •Act it out
- •Interview with an author
- •Have your say
- •Listening
- •Reading
- •Writing
- •An appraisal of a book
- •Have your say
- •II. Read books, rather than about books
- •IV. Read rapidly
- •V. Read by snatches
- •VI. Read what you like
- •VII. Read what you do not like
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •Read the Better Magazines and Books
- •Reading
- •What Does it Take to Be a Good Reader?
- •Listening
- •Writing
- •Familiar Quotations
- •Have your say
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •Reading
- •Why Trashy Books Are So Good for Little Boys
- •Writing
- •A letter
- •Act it out
- •Have your say
- •Interview 10 people (first-year students, your relations, friends, etc.) to find out how they select books.
- •Unit 4 how to develop the habit of reading
- •My several worlds
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •Reading
- •Listening
- •Writing
- •Act it out
- •Have your say
- •How Shall The Habit of Reading Be Cultivated?
- •Unit 5 will books survive?
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •Reading
- •Writing
- •Read a good powerbook lately?
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •In each set find the odd-one-out; explain your choice.
- •Reading
- •In the article, find the words that mean approximately the same as the following definition.
- •Death of the book or a novel way to read?
- •Act it out
- •Birth of the book to end all books
- •Have your say
- •III books shall survive
- •Reading
- •Burn them or bury them, you can’t beat books
- •Writing
- •Have your say
- •Brush up everything you have done and get ready for a round-table talk about books and reading.
Focus on vocabulary
Transcribe and read out these words.
adequate, compatible, diverse, converse, proviso, momentary, multitude, prejudice, artificial, reciprocal, absorb, involuntary, resolve
Explain the meaning of the following words.
1. sturdy 6. checkmate (v)
2. command (n) 7. condemn
3. encounter (v) 8. proviso
4. accomplish 9. lead up to sth
5. converse 10. extensive
Give synonyms.
1. unaware 6. various
2. fast 7. irregular, occasional
3. satisfactory 8. limited
4. ordinary 9. turn down
5. force (v) 10. engrossing, gripping
Read the definitions and work out the words.
give variety to
(cause to) be in a suitable or harmonious relation with
complete control or knowledge of
pay no attention to
take hold of
sth that is decided
person with much knowledge
be easily seen above or among others
a great number
sth needed
Give the opposites.
1. voluntary 5. out of reach
2. compatible 6. artificial
3. profound 7. adequate
4. accept 8. commonplace
Fill in the correct prepositions.
A well-disciplined mind can work … compulsion.
True scholarship is compatible … freedom and delight.
Memory of language is … association.
To construct phrases … an author’s pattern.
Read some snatches … odd moments of waiting and resting.
We should learn to act … resolve and determination.
… no means confine yourself … one subject, still less … one author.
If the book is your own, mark freely … the margin any passage that especially interests you.
A book that has lived 50 years is sure to be … the ordinary standard.
Read in quantities, just as much as you can master … one stretch.
Explain the difference in meaning between the following words and choose the right word to fit into each of these sentences.
1. intelligent – intellectual
a. She isn’t interested in … things.
b. Human beings are more … than animals.
c. Philosophy interests … but not ordinary people.
2. continuous – continual
a. The trees formed a heavy … line on the horizon.
b. Stop that … hammering!
3. content – contents
a. Look at the list of the … in the book.
b. The … of the book is very good but I don’t like the pictures.
c. The police were interested in the … of the murdered woman’s bag.
Paraphrase the extract replacing the underlined words and expressions.
The first requirement for a sufficient vocabulary is general reading. This reading for building up one’s vocabulary is different from reading for mastery of any particular subject. To acquire a large supply of valuable words, one should make one’s reading as wide and as various as possible, but it must be in really good English, worth being influenced by.
With the great number of books now constantly appearing, one who would read for intellect and style can seldom afford to read a new book “to see if it is good”. There are some books of sudden popularity that a good mind may turn down at once. The ordinary person will do best to take the opinion of good judges and pay no attention to any book not recommended by them. On the other hand, a book that has lived 50 years is sure to be first-rate; otherwise it wouldn’t have lived.
Read in quantities, just as much as you can manage without stopping. By such continuous reading your mind becomes influenced by the author’s style and you will find yourself unconsciously constructing phrases or sentences after the author’s pattern.
The opposite is equally true. Read by snatches, keep some first-class book within reach where it can be picked up and read in odd moments of resting and waiting.
Say it in English.
содержание книги
делать выводы
недостатки и предубеждения
необычно богатый и элегантный стиль
отметить отрывок на полях
Complete each of the following sentences in three different ways.
1. To develop the instinct of language one must …
2. In reading for command of words …
3. Make your book a companion and …
Fill in the gaps to make as many word combinations as possible. You should get at least a dozen phrases.
to __________ vocabulary
an __________ vocabulary
Could you explain what “an adequate vocabulary” is?
Can you explain what the following sentences mean?
The first requirement for an adequate vocabulary is general reading.
Vocabulary building should go beyond commonplace words and momentary interests.
We must get over the illusion that “a book is a book”.
Memory of language is by association.
By continuous reading you will develop the instinct of language.
We may checkmate necessity by doing what we can.
By following one’s likings limitlessly there is danger of developing mental one-sidedness.
As you read the following passage, try to decide what the missing words might be.