III. A) Say whether you enjoy reading:

fairy tales – сказки

adventure stories – приключенческие книги

detective stories – детективы

spy thrillers – книги “про шпионов”

classics – классика

contemporary novels – современные романы

poetry - поэзия

non-fiction – документальная проза

biographies – жизнеописания / memoirs – мемуары

travel books – книги о путешествиях

fiction – беллетристика, художественная литература

science fiction – научная фантастика

literary/ musical criticism – литературная/музыкальная критика

b) Arrange them according to their importance to you.

IV. Read the text and say why the author never travels without books.

“The Book-bag”

Some people read for instruction, and some for pleasure, but not a few read from habit. I belong to that company. Let us admit that reading with us is just a drug that we cannot get along without.

Books are necessary to me and I never travel far without enough reading matter. But when I am starting on a long journey the problem is really great. I have learnt my lesson. Once I fell ill in a small town in Java and had to stay in bed for three months. I came to the end of all the books I had brought with me and knowing no Dutch had to buy the schoolbooks from which intelligent Javanese, I suppose, got knowledge of French and German. So I read again after twenty-five years the plays of Goethe, the fables of La Fontaine and the tragedies of Racine. I have the greatest admi­ration for Racine, but I admit that to read his plays one after the other requires a certain effort in a person who is ill. Since then I have made a point of travelling with a large sack full of books for every possible occasion and every mood.

There are books of all kinds. Volumes of verse, novels, philosophical works, critical studies (they say books about books are useless, but they certainly make very pleasant reading), biographies, history; there are books to read when you are ill and books to read when your brain wants some­thing to work at; there are books that you have always wanted to read but in the hurry of life at home have never found time to; there are books to read at sea; there are books for bad weather; there are books chosen solely for their length, which you take along when you have to travel light, and there are the books you can read when you can read nothing else. (After S. Maugham)

V. Make your own list of books to read

a) when you are ill;

b) when you want to relax;

c) when you are travelling;

d) for bad weather;

e) when you need some particular information.

VI. A) Read and discuss.

Books, I believe, may be divided into three classes:

1. books to read;

2. books to re-read;

3. books not to read at all.

The third class is the most important. To tell people what to read is, as a rule, either useless or harmful. But to tell people what not to read is a very different matter.

It is indeed necessary in this age of ours, an age that reads so much, that it has no time to admire, and writes so much that it has no time to think. Whoever will select “The Worst Hundred Books” and publish a list of them will give the rising generation a real and lasting service. (After O. Wilde)

1. Do you agree that there are three classes of books: books you must read, books you must re-read and books you must not read at all?

2. Which is the largest and the smallest class?

3. How do you choose a book to read?

4. What books do you re-read?

5. How do you know what books not to read at all?

6. Do you agree that the list of the “Worst Hundred Books” may be useful?

b) From a book review (рецензия): “It is not a book to throw aside lightly, it is a book to throw away with great force.” Have you ever read such books? What are they?

c) Make your own list of best books to read and speak about your choice.

1. for children of 5 2. for teenagers

3. for women 4. for men

5. for old people

Time expressions used with the Present Perfect:

For, since, already, always, just, ever, never, today, this week / month, how long, lately, recently, still (in negations), etc.

Note:

• already is used in statements after the auxiliary verb and in questions after the main verb.

E.g.: I have already finished. Have you finished already?

• yet is used in negative sentences after a negative contracted auxiliary verb or at the end of the sentence.

E.g.: She hasn’t yet finished the report. She hasn’t finished the report yet.

• still is used in statements and questions after the auxiliary verb or before the main verb.

E.g.: I am still painting the house. He still lives in Hong Kong.

However, still comes before the auxiliary verb in negations.

E.g.: She still hasn’t finished her homework.