“LIFE WITHOUT BOOKS IS AS
A TREE WITHOUT LEAVES”
Roald Dahl
"Someone Like You“
"Sweet Mystery Of Life“
"Kiss Kiss"
"Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost
Stories“
"James and the Giant
Peach"
"Fantastic Mr. Fox"
Change the underlined part of the
sentences:
1. Old Tom is always careful and notices everything that
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
is happening.
Little Robin couldn’t cope with the huge plateful of
soup.
He looked around trying to find a place to sit.
I looked at the strange box and couldn’t guess what it
held.
These two girls talk too much.
I don’t know what the book is about.
She is fond of reading and reads a lot and very fast.
This book was published seven times.
Choose the correct variant:
1)Reading … .
a) is a favourite pastime of everybody
b) gives us a unique chance to educate and
entertain ourselves
c) is always interesting
d) makes a very deep impression on us
2)What statement is not true?
a) Tastes differ, different people read different
books
b) It is very easy to recommend books to other
people
c) Reading is an interesting and useful pastime
d) Not all the books are interesting
3)What books are read by many people?
a) detective stories
b) fairy tales and fantasy
c) novels and short stories
d) adventure stories
4)What statement is true?
a) People read poetry for consulting
b) Textbooks and scientific articles are read for
information.
c) Scientific articles and historical books are read
for entertaining.
d) Books don’t help us with our lessons and work.
5)If we have little time to spare we prefer …
a) books with hard cover
b) rare editions
c) an amusing story for light reading
d) handbooks
6)When did detective literature first appear?
a) in 1950 s
b) in the 18 th century
c) at the beginning of the 19 th century
d) in the middle of the 18 th century
7)We read the book at a sitting from cover to
cover when …
a) the book is illustrated
b) the book is adapted
c) it’s a milk-and-water book
d) the book is so moving that we can’t
tear ourselves from it
8)We skip a book when …
a) it’s thrilling
b) it’s true-to-life
c) it’s fascinating
d’) it’s badly-written
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Walter Scott
Charlotte Brontё
Daniel Defoe
Rudyard Kipling
Lewis Carroll
Arthur Conan Doyle
Jack London
Jerome K. Jerome
The Prince and the Pauper”
Charles Dickens
“Three Men in a Boat”
Mark Twain
“Alice in Wonderland”
Walter Scott
“Robinson Crusoe”
is written by
Charlotte Brontё
“Jane Eyre”
Daniel Defoe
“Oliver Twist”
Rudyard Kipling
“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”
Lewis Carroll
“The Jungle Book”
Jack London
“Ivanhoe”
Arthur Conan Doyle
“Martin Eden”
Jerome K. Jerome
“
Thomas Jefferson
without / live / cannot / I / reading
•
Thomas Jefferson
I cannot live without reading
Confucious
the voice / Words / are /
heart / of the
Confucious
Words are the voice of the heart
Richard Steel
to the body / Reading /
is / to the mind /
what exercise / is
Richard Steel
Reading is to the mind what
exercise is to the body
Logan Pearsall Smith
People / reading / say /
prefer / that / I / life / but /
is / the thing
Logan Pearsall Smith
People say that life is the
thing but I prefer reading
Gustavo Flaubert
in order to / Read / live
Gustavo Flaubert
Read in order to live
A. Pushkin
is / learning / Reading /
the best
A. Pushkin
Reading is the best learning
F. Bacon
to read / Old wood /
old authors / is / and / best /
to trust / to burn / old friend /
old wine / to drink
F. Bacon
Old wood is best to burn, old wine
to drink, old friend to trust, old
authors to read
Choose the right variant
1.In one of the cities of Japan there once lived a poor woman.
a) True
b)False
c) Not stated
2. When Aladdin became a teenager a rich man came to their house.
a) True
b)False
c) Not stated
3. Aladdin’s uncle had brought them money.
a) True
b)False
c) Not stated
4. The man asked his nephew to take him to the mountains.
a) True
b)False
c) Not stated
5. The uncle decided to stop at a certain rocky place because he was tired.
a) True
b)False
c) Not stated
6. Aladdin was surprised when a hole opened in front of them.
a) True
b)False
c) Not stated
7. The boy’s uncle asked him to keep a watchful eye on all the trees in the
garden.
a) True
b)False
c) Not stated
8. The boy’s uncle asked him to rub the lamp.
a) True
b)False
c) Not stated
9. The uncle gave Aladdin the ring to keep him brave.
a) True
b)False
c) Not stated
10. The lamp was under the spell.
a) True
b)False
c) Not stated
Do We Really Need Poetry?
The (1) ___ English person considers that poetry is
“nice’ for children, becoming for girls, and (2) ___ for
women teachers. Few people read poetry and fewer still
pay for it.
The (3) ___ for disliking poetry is that most people
believe poetry should (4) __ only with certain “nice’
themes and topics such as birds, flowers, trees and love.
But the (5) ___ is that life in all its forms can be the
theme of poetry. The so-called ugly and ordinary things
are as remarkable in their way as the beautiful. Modern
poets have (6) ___ this and given as many fine poems
on unpoetical subjects.
We must (7) ___ that when we wish to (8) ___ some
tender emotion we turn to poetry. We may not normally
like the poetry; we may know very little about it, but we
recognize that it is the (9) ___ way to express the best
that is (10) ___ us.
Key
1. c
2. a
3. a
4. b
5. d
6. c
7. c
8. a
9. b
10. b
0 - 1 mistake is “5”
2-3 mistakes is “4”
4-5 mistakes is “3’
Charles Kingsley
“Except a living man, there is
nothing more wonderful than a
book”.