Work in pairs. Interview your partner about books and reading. Take notes of his answers and present in class. Compare them with your own answers.

Student’s A’s questions (do not show these to student B)

1. How important are books to you? 2. What would life be like without books? 3. What kinds of books do you like? 4. Do you prefer paperbacks or hardbacks? 5. If you wrote a book, what would you write about? 6. If you could only have one book for the rest of your life, what would it be and why? 7. Do you think the Internet will make books disappear? 8. What do you think of the idea of E-books? 9. What book would you recommend for children? 10. How many books have you read in English?

Student’s B’s questions (do not show these to student A)

1. Who is your favorite author? 2. What do you think of Google’s idea to put all the world’s books on the Internet, accessible for free? 3. Why doesn’t everybody enjoy reading? 4. Do you prefer to keep the books you read? 5. What’s the most number of times you have read the same book? 6. Which is better, the book or the movie? 7. Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction? 8. Do you spend a long time browsing in bookshops? 9. Do you ever read the last page of a book before you start reading it? 10. How often do you want the story in a book to never end?

3. Fill in the blanks with the word that best fits the meaning of each sentence:foreword, autobiography, protagonists, prose, pseudonym, plays, cover, climax, volumes, characters, fiction, to depict, verse, mystery, novel. Provide a natural conversational context for each of the following remarks.

Model:A book written by oneself about one’s own life is called autobiography. Autobiography is my favourite genre of literature. I like to read about famous people, their life and careers.

1. A book written by oneself about one’s own life is called ... . 2. “War and peace” is the greatest ... by Leo Tolstoy. 3. A. Christie’s stories are full of ... 4. The ... is the most powerful part of a book. 5. I find all the ... in S. Maugham’s novel “Theatre” very real. 6. Eric Blair wrote under the ... of George Orwell. 7. Truth is sometimes stranger than ... . 8. A lot of B. Shaw’s ... were put on (performed). 9. Newspaper articles are written in ... . 10. Not all ... is great poetry. 11. There is a set of Dickens’ works in 24 ... . 12. The writer’s photograph is on the ... of the book. 13. The author ... the events vividly. 14. The ... deals with the main idea of the book. 15. Bill Mor is one the ... in the novel “The Sandcastle” by I. Murdoch.

4. Use the following words and word combinations to comment on your preferences as a reader:

· good, interesting, famous, popular, exciting, thrilling, entertaining, informative, instructive, fascinating, enjoyable, amazing, trashy, dull, boring;

· a novel, a book about travel, memoirs, a detective story, a poem, an essay, science fiction, a play, a historical novel;

· to occupy one’s spare time, to while away an evening, to learn something, to read a few pages, to waste time on reading, not to care a straw, can(not) do with…, to send one to sleep.

Model: I like reading historical novels. They are usually interesting and informative. A good historical novel gives us ideas and teaches us something useful. I haven’t got much spare time, so I do not read trashy crime stories.

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