UNIT XV

THE WORLD OF BOOKS

Exercises

I.Listen and read. [ r]

free present tree very treat dream

friend principle through sorry try dry

arrest problem throw quarrel true draw

shrill press thread merry trade drive

shrewd prove right forever traffic dress

shrug prisoner bride for instance trolley drop

bring brown red

breath right

1. Rack your brains.

2. Role arrived on the stroke of three.

3. Try to reduce rule to practice.

4. There is neither rhyme nor reason in it.

5. Ruth is hungry.

6. When angry count to a hundred.

7. Truth is stranger than fiction.

II.Remember these proverbs, and quotations. What do you think of them? How do you understand these words.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

A room without books is like a body without soul.

Treat books with care as good friends.

Reading is to the mind what exercise to the body.

Books and friends should be few but good.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

R.Emerson

Tell me what you read and I will tell you what you are.

W.Goethe

Reading is the best learning.

A.Pushkin

Bad books are worse than useless; they are harmful.

L.Tolstoy

Books are great things as long as you know how to use them.

A.Block

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

F.Bacon

III.What genres of books do you know? Complete the spider gram with the words concerning genres of books of types of publications.

Which of them can be found on the shelves of your room?

Which of them do you use very often\seldom\very rarely?

Which of them are very helpful for you?

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