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- MATURITA!!!
- Užitočné stránky
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- 1 Family
- 2 Culture and art
- 3 Sports
- 4 Housing
- 5 Shopping and services
- 6 Health care
- 7 Travelling
- 8 Education
- 9 Jobs and Employment
- 10 Human Relations
- 11 Man and Nature
- 12 Development of Science and Technology
- 14 Communication and Its Forms
- 16 Young People and Society
- 17 Food
- 18 Hobbies, Free Time and Lifestyle
- 19 Multicultural Society
- 20 Towns and places
- 21 Clothing and fashion
- 22 The Book
- 23 Role-models and Ideals
- 24 The Country Whose Language I am Learning
- 25 Slovakia - My Homeland
- FCE
22 The Book
22 The Book – a Person’s Friend
a) Books – the choice, reading
- Compare the importance of reading books in the past and now.
- Books accompany people from their childhood. What kind of books do people read throughout their lives?
- What positive effects on people does reading have?
- How can we divide books/literature? (fiction/non-fiction).
- Where can people get books?
- Books are expensive today – do you agree/disagree?
- The Lord of the Rings were made into successful movie. Which is better – reading a book or watching a movie? Explain.
- Why is reading books on decline nowadays?
b) My favourite writer and genres
- What is your attitude to books?
- What is your favourite writer? Speak about his life and work.
- What sort of books do you like reading? Why?
- How do you choose the books you read?
- What books would you recommend for children in our country? Give reasons.
c) The life and work of an English speaking writer
- Choose a representative of the English or American literature and speak about his life and work. (e. g. E. A. Poe: Maelstrom, W. Shakespeare: Hamlet, O. Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, A. C. Doyle: short stories, or any other author)
Writing suggestion:
An Article (150 -180 words)
Write an article to a magazine explaining reasons why reading books is no longer popular among young people.
Vocabulary:
POEM – deep feelings and desires of poets
FAIRY TALES – folk heroes who perform incredible deeds
SCIENCE FICTION – scientific theories and worlds depicting the future of life on Earth
ROMANCECS – passionate love, exotic subjects, supernatural experience, knights
NOVELS – real life, real characters in a continuous plot
DETECTIVE STORIES – specific problems (e. g. murders) which are solved by the intelligence of an investigator
HISTORICAL NOVELS – events and characters from the past
COMIC BOOKS – cartoon characters in a dynamic story
BIOGRAPHIES – somebody’s life
SCIENTIFIC PAPERS - scientific of philosophical theories and research
BOOKS OF TRAVEL - experiences and adventures from journeys
Book, author, writer, dramatist, poet, literary representative, literary movement, literary work, masterpiece, library, bookshop, e-book, social/historical background, talent
Main characters, plot, scene, background, story, hero/heroine
Fiction, poems, verse, drama, play, comedy, tragedy, historical drama, novel, short story, novella, sci-fi, fantasy, fairy tales, chapters, episodes, dialogue, monologue, happy ending
Non-fiction, encyclopaedia, text book, dictionary