Dec 25, 2015
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:PROSEDRAMAPOETRY
• say an example of each
What do these people write / do with the books?
• writer• author• journalist• poet
• playwright• publisher• illustrator• bookseller
GENRES OF LITERATUREFICTION• 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 LITERATURENON-FICTION• encyclopaedia, (picture) dictionary• atlas• memory, biography, autobiography• self-help book, ”how to” book, manual
• travel guide
• cookery book
• booklet, catalogue
• chronicle
PARTS OF BOOKBook cover
Book back
Book binding - paperback/hardback
BlurbChapters, pages (leaves), paragraphs, lines, sentences,
words, letters
PARTS OF BOOKTB p.191prologue, 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?
LeafletsBrochuresGuide booksTextbooksMagazinesNewspapersReviewsRecipes
MapsLetters
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?
Why yes??? Why not???
Discuss in pairs:
SHOULD PEOPLE READ?
• audio records brief contents available everywhere (for school)
• TV, films, video, DVDs, the Internet, downloading
Consequences:no imagination
no creativitypoor vocabularypoor grammar
wasted wisdom
They enjoy itTeachers make them do
it They need some info
They learn from itReading:• 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 YES?
WHY NOT?
A LOT OF WISDOM IN BOOKS!!!
tell me what you read and I will tell you who you are ...http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Literature/I-Remember-Reading-That-313271.html
http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Literature/25-Centuries-of-Literature-152192.html
http://www.triviaplaza.com/authors-1-quiz/