How to choose a good book?

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How to choose a good book?
Hello, boys and girls from Botovo!
We are the 9-th year students from Klimovskaya school which is 30 km from
the city Cherepovets. Both boys and girls learn in our class. But neither boys nor
girls like to go to the library. They don’t know how to choose a good book. So they
enjoy either sport or computer, but not a book.
Do you have the same problem?
Advise us how to choose a book. Thank you!
Our e-mail: [email protected]

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How to choose
a good book?

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What do books
give us?
− teach us
− broaden our mind
− travel to different countries
− meet different people
− learn a lot
− our friends
− make us feel, laugh and cry

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Proverbs about books
1. The more we read the more we know
2. The book is a mirror of life
3. A good book is the best friend
4. A good book is brighter than a star
5. A book is the best teacher
6. Choose a book s you choose a friend
7. When you choose a friend, ask him “What do you read?”
8. Tastes differ

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The aim
To give an argumentative answer
to the question, asked in the letter

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The tasks
− to review the names of genres
− to learn the ways of choosing
books and recommending them
− to remember the rules of writing
a letter

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Romance
Detective story
Biography
History book
Adventure
Novel
Fantasy
Fairy-tale
Science fiction
Horror story

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Try to guess what genre
the key words belong to
1. The past, characters are not real
2. Pirates, cowboys, ships, faraway islands, treasure, a lot of danger
3. Wizards, witches, magic objects, and words
4. Love, hate, difficulties
5. Vampires, witches, ghosts, scary supernatural events
6. A clever detective, criminals
7. Aliens, spaceships, trips to the moon, star wars
8. Princes and princesses, witches, and magic objects
9. The author herself or himself

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The ways of
choosing a book
Why?
Parents’ advice
It is always worth reading
Friends’ recommendations
It makes you want to read
Title/ name
They are exciting
Blurb
I love fantasy
Genre
My favorite writer is M. Twain
Author
I trust my friends
Pictures
They know more than I do

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A poem
“What are books
for me?”
I love to read books,
It’s my cup of tea.
Books are full of ideas,
Don’t you agree?
Books can teach and excite,
Books can comfort and thrill,
Books can show you the world,
And will make you feel.
Funny books make me laugh,
Romances make me cry,
Adventure books make me happy,
I don’t know why.
Thrillers bore me to death,
Fantasy is good fun.
And I can’t stand science fiction,
Don’t give me one.
All those robots and fights,
And alien ships,
Make me cry at night,
Make me walk in my sleep.
Books will never let down,
Books will never mislead,
When you make a new friend,
Ask him “What do you read?”