Reading In this section, you will learn how to: •
understand the structure of review texts;
•
understand the main and supporting ideas of the texts.
Activity 1
Read the following rules and then answer the questions. Rules for Choosing Books to Read The three practical rules which I have to offer are i.
Never read any book that is not a year old.
ii. Never read any but famous books. iii. Never read any but what you like. -Ralph Waldo Emerson-
Sources: The World Book Encyclopedia, 1996; The Brothers Karamazov, 1992; Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories,1997
1.
Do you agree when Emerson tells us never to read a new book?
2.
What famous books do you know? Find out which books everyone in class has heard of.
3.
Have you read any of these famous books? Do you think you would like them? How do you know?
4.
The writing on the back of a book is called the blurb. Usually it gives you information about the book or tells you what some people think of the book. The aim of the blurb is to sell the book. Read these two blurbs. How do they try to persuade you to buy the book? "Heartily recommended to any reader who wishes to come as close to Dostoevsky’s Russian as it is possible." - Joseph Frank, Princeton University -
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Developing English Competencies for Grade XII of Natural and Social Science Programmes