Literature and life

Checking the self-study work
p.99 Unit 4 L2
Read the text Open Eurasia 2019 Contest Announced! and answer the questions.
Literature contest
Writers, poets, translators and artists;
2012
In different places
They want to have their books published
Galina Dolgaya
Shahodat Ulug, Hosiyat Rustamova,
Alexey Ulko, Jasur Turaev and
Ashot Danielyan, Said Yanyshev, Isajon Sulton

fiction – художественная литература
manual – руководство; справочник
guidebook – путеводитель
encyclopaedia – энциклопедический словарь
novel – роман
Listen and repeat.
imagine, -ed – воображать, представить
magic – магия
story – рассказ

Answer the questions.
1) How much time do you spend on reading?
2) What kind of books, newspapers and magazines do you prefer?
3) When and where do you usually read?
4) What book did you especially like when you were a young child?

p.32 Unit 4 L3
Activity 1a. Divide types of books into fiction and non-fiction.

Activity 1a. Check your answers.
p.32 Unit 4 L3
Fiction:
Non-fiction:
“Fiction” refers to literature created from the imagination.
While settings, plot points, and characters in fiction are sometimes based on real-life events or people, writers use such things as jumping off points for their stories. Mysteries, science fiction, romance, fantasy, crime thrillers are all fiction genres.

Activity 2. Match types of books with their definitions.
.
1. cookbook
4. travel guide
2. biography
5. science fiction
a book about a person’s life by that person
a book about actual or imagined scientific things
or events
a book with instructions on how to prepare food
a book about words of a language with the information about their meanings, pronunciations, etc.
a book with tourist and travel information
a book about another person’s life
6. autobiography
3. dictionary

Activity 2. Match types of books with their definitions.
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7. encyclopedia
10. crime story
8. Western
a famous book from the past that has
a lot of influence
a story about detectives and police work
a book that gives a lot of information about
different things
a book about American frontier of the 19th century
9. classic novel

Listen and read.
an email, text message, street sign, or even a status on Facebook all require you to read.
many people read to learn information or facts, to be entertained, or to understand other cultures or groups.
to gain a more thorough understanding of the characters or the story. If you are reading for entertainment, you want to fully comprehend the action of the story and the characters.
reading is pointless unless you gain some understanding of the text. Be it for entertainment, learning, or communication, you need to be able to comprehend what you read. The more you read, the more your reading comprehension will improve.
Why do we read?

Activity 3. Read the book reviews. Are they fiction or non-fiction?
B
✔ fiction
✔ non-fiction

Activity 3. Read the book reviews. Are they fiction or non-fiction?
C
✔ non-fiction
✔ fiction
D

Activity 3. Read the book reviews. Are they fiction or non-fiction?
E
✔ fiction
✔ non-fiction
F