READING BOOKS
Do you prefer reading fiction or non-fiction?
(What’s the difference between them?)
Who’s your favourite Czech/foreign writer?
What’s your favourite historical period in literature?
Do you regularly read a newspaper/magazine? If so, which one?
What do you think of reading comics?
Do you like poetry and why?
TYPES OF LITERATURE
Literary forms:
PROSE
DRAMA
POETRY
• say an example of each
What do these people write / do with the books?
• writer
• author
• journalist
• poet
• playwright
• publisher
• illustrator
• bookseller
GENRES OF LITERATURE
FICTION
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novel
tale / short story
detective story
historical novel
romances
• western
• mystery
• sci - fi
• adventure story
• true life story
• war novel
• psychological novel
• poem (ballad, epic, lyric,
sonnet)
• play (drama, comedy,
tragedy)
• children’s rhyme
• fairy tale
• fable
• utopia
• folk literature
• myth
GENRES OF LITERATURE
NON-FICTION
• encyclopaedia, (picture) dictionary
• atlas
• memory, biography, autobiography
• self-help book, ”how to” book, manual
• travel guide
• cookery book
• booklet, catalogue
• chronicle
PARTS OF BOOK
Book cover
Book back
Book binding - paperback/hardback
Blurb
Chapters, pages (leaves), paragraphs, lines,
sentences, words,
letters
PARTS OF BOOK
TB p.191
prologue, preface, foreword, introduction,
dedication, acknowledgments, epilogue,
notes (footnotes, notes of novelist/writer, notes of
publisher, …)
glossary, index, references, appendix, table of
contents,.....
----------------------------------------For description of a book you need to know its:
message, plot, brief content!!!!
WHAT ELSE CAN PEOPLE
READ?
Leaflets
Brochures
Guide books
Textbooks
Magazines
Newspapers
Reviews
Recipes
Maps
Letters
Junk mail
Service instructions
Captions, subtitles
Invitations
Tarot cards
Street signs
Scrolls of papyrus/ parchment
Letters carved in stones
From coffee-grounds, palms
Between the lines…
SHOULD PEOPLE READ?
Discuss in pairs:
Why yes???
Why not???
SHOULD PEOPLE READ?
WHY YES?
They enjoy it
Teachers make them do it
They need some info
They learn from it
Reading:
• improves our language (enriches our
vocabulary) and knowledge
• supports our imagination, reprieve
from reality
• we can read much faster (mostly)
• exploring new places, cultures,
lives
WHY NOT?
• audio records brief contents
available everywhere (for
school)
• TV, films, video, DVDs, the
Internet, downloading
Consequences:
no imagination
no creativity
poor vocabulary
poor grammar
wasted wisdom
A LOT OF WISDOM IN BOOKS!!!
tell me what you read and I will tell you who you are ...
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