I. Look at the words in the box, make sure you know all of them.

II. Who writes what? Arrange the words like this:

A poet writes poems.

a playwright	novels
an essayist	plays
a critic	humour stories
a short-story writer	essays
a novelist	short stories
a humorist	reviews

III. Cross out the odd word.

1. poet – promising – critic

2. episode – setting – character – well-known

3. to adopt a pseudonym – to be famous all over the world – to achieve

success

4. dreadful – author – moving

IV. There are two lists – the left one contains the names of authors and the right one – the genre of literature which we usually associate with them:

Agatha Christie    William Shakespeare Robert Burns                      O’Henry Somerset Maugham Bernard Shaw   John Galsworthy       Margaret Mitchell Stephen King  Danielle Steel Isaak Azimov

poems (verses) historical novel plays (drama) science fiction (sci-fi) novels detective stories (whodunits) thrillers short stories love stories