Welcome to our class!
April 2020
Chu Van An High School
They are made of paper.
You can get much information from them.
Love story, novel… are among them.
Guessing: What are they?
Books
Unit 11: BOOKS
Reading
I. Before you read
Reading
1. Do you often read books?
2. What kinds of books do you enjoy reading most/least?
3. How do you read books?
II. While you read
II. While you read
3. chew:
5. digest:
4. swallow:
2. dip into:
1. taste:
7. hard-to-pick-up-again:
6. hard-to-put-down:
Task 1: The following words and phrases all appear in the passage. Find the Vietnamese equivalent for each of them.
đọc nghiền ngẫm
đọc và suy ngẫm
đọc nghiến ngấu
đọc qua loa
đọc thử
không thể đọc tiếp nữa
không thể đặt xuống
/teist/
/tʃu:/
/`swɒlǝʊ/
/dai`dƷest/
nếm
chấm
nhai
nuốt
tiêu hóa
Eating
Reading
Food
Physical development
Spiritual development
Fill each gap with suitable word(s) from the box
a. hard-to-pick-up-again, b. dip into, c. swallow, d. digest, e. chews and digests, f. hard-to-put-down
1. It often takes a long time to ………………………….....… new ideas.
2. I have only had time to ………………………………. the report. I couldn’t read it thoroughly.
3. It is a good book. I think it is interesting enough for you to ………………………………. .
4. When a reader reads an interesting book slowly and carefully, he ……………………………………. it.
5. When you have an interesting book, you want to read all at a time, you can describe the book as …….……….………………........... .
6. This is such a boring book that I don’t want to read it again. This book is ……..……………………………….. ….....
(d) digest
(b) dip into
(c) swallow
(e) chews and digests
(f) hard-to-put-down
(a) hard-to-pick-up-again
Checking vocabulary
1. You can’t read different types of books in the same way.
T
F
NM
2. When you “taste” a book you read it carefully from the beginning to the end.
3. Many people only have time to read when they are travelling.
4. Books with good stories are often described as “hard-to-put-down”.
5. Television has replaced books altogether.
Task 2: Read the passage again and decide whether the statements are true (T), false (F) or not mentioned (NM).
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Task 3: Answer the questions according to the information in the passage.
1. How many ways of reading are there?
2. When might you “swallow” a book?
3. What should you do before starting to read a book carefully and slowly?
4. What are the advantages of television over books?
5. What are the advantages of books over the television?
Paragraph 1
1. How many ways of reading are there?
On the subject of reading, Francis Bacon, who lived at about the same time as Shakespeare, wrote these words, "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." This good advice shows how it is possible to read different types of books in different ways. For example, you might pick up a travel book and read a few pages before going to sleep. It is enough to dip into it and read bits here and there. In a word, this is "tasting".
1. How many ways of reading are there?
- There are three ways.
Chewing & digesting
Tasting
Swallowing
Paragraph 2
Some stories are for "swallowing". Imagine that you have found a good story, and, what is even more important, the time to enjoy it. You might be on holiday, or on a long train journey. If it is a good book, you might say, "It`s so good I can`t put it down". But not all stories belong to this class. Reviewers sometimes describe books as "hard-to-put-down", or "hard-to-pick-up-again".
2. When might you “swallow” a book?
2. When might you “swallow” a book?
- When you find a good story and have time to enjoy it.
Paragraph 3
Other books are for reading slowly and carefully. If it is a book on a subject that you are interested in, you will want to "chew and digest it". That does not mean reading it too slowly. When you pick up a book for the first time, check that it is not too difficult. Do not start a book unless you can see from the first few pages that it is one you can easily read and understand.
3. What should you do before starting to read a book carefully and slowly?
3. What should you do before starting to read a book carefully and slowly?
- You should read a few pages to see if it’s the one you can easily read and understand.
Paragraph 4
4. What are the advantages of TV over books?
4. What are the advantages of television over books?
- T.V can bring you all the information and stories with colour, picture and action.
Paragraph 4
4. What are the advantages of TV over books?
5. What are the advantages of books over the television?
5. What are the advantages of books over television ?
- Books are still a cheap way to get information & entertainment and can be kept forever and read many times.
Craft book
Novel
Some kinds of books
Comic book
Romance
Science book
Biography
Thriller
Fiction
Text books
Match the book types with their names.
1
Tiểu thuyết
3
Truyện trinh thám
5
Sách giáo khoa
6
4
Khoa học viễn tưởng
Nghề thủ công
2
Truyện/kịch/phim giật gân, ly kỳ
a. Text book
b. Craft
c. Detective story
d. Thriller
e. Novel
f. Science
fiction
III. After you read: Find the names of types of books in the square. The words may go across, down, up, backwards, or an angle.
a. If you like books with an exciting story especially one about crime or spy, read a t..........
b. If you enjoy reading stories about love affairs, a r....... is the right book for you.
c. A n...... is a story long enough to fill a complete book, in which the characters and events are usually imaginary.
d. A s..............fiction is a type of book that is based on imagined scientific discoveries of the future.
e. If you want to learn how to knit or work with wood, you should buy a c....... book.
f. F...............books tell stories from the author’s imagination.
g. A c........... books tell stories through pictures.
h. A b........... is about a person’s life written by somebody else.
Complete the chart below based on the content of the reading passage and what you’ve learnt in this lesson.
BOOKS
How to read books
Advantages of books
Kinds of books
Thriller
A cheap way to get information and entertainment
Can be kept forever and read many times
A wonderful source of knowledge and pleasure
Tasting
Chewing & digesting
Swallowing
Comic
Science fiction
Text book
Novel
Craft
Romance
Biography
. Homework:
Learn by heart new words & the names of types of books.
Prepare Language focus.
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