XI.Read an example of book review. Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling's books about Harry Potter have been one of the most sensational successes of recent years, and judging by the first volume, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, they are a fine addition to English children's fantasy literature.
The central character, Harry Potter, is orphaned when his parents are killed by the evil wizard Voldemort, and is taken in by his aunt and uncle, who are Muggles (ordinary, non-magical people). Harry is rather out of place with his relations, but things improve greatly for him when he goes to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - except that one of the staff is in league with Voldemort. The miror characters such as Ron and Hermione are very clearly drawn, and the three form a closely-knit team of friends.
The plot centers on Harry's struggles to save the world, and part of the attraction of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone comes from the setting of an English public school, complete with houses and schoolboy adventures. Rowling adds some delightful novelties of her own, such as Quiddich, a seven-a-side ball game played on broomsticks, and the whole book is pulled together by some excellent story-telling.
The Potter books, however, are by no means perfect. The limitations of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone become clearer when it is compared with another children's novel in which a neophyte wizard attends a school for wizards - Ursula Le Guin`s A Wizard of Earthsea. This works just as well as a story, but is far more imaginative. Where Rowling simply re-uses superficial popular ideas about magic, Le Guin constructs a complete new world of her own. Le Guin also deals with subjects such as coming of age, and her hero is rounded in places where Harry Potter is no more than one-dimensional.
So Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone would be a great Christmas present for children who haven't read it yet. Mum and Dad will enjoy it too. But A Wizard of Earthsea is all that and more, and should not be overlooked simply because it is less well known.
Use the given tips to retell the book\story you have read.
Some Tips on How to Work with the Book\Story
Here is the title of the story. What do you think the story is about?
Skim the text very quickly and find the answers to the questions.
Give a short summery of the story.
Divide the text into 3, 4 etc. parts, give the title to every part.
Find the word(s) in these sentences that do(es) not refer to the text.]
Answer the questions to the text.
Find the key sentences in the text (in each part).
Can you give another title to the story?
Prove the fact that…
Tell your classmates what you think about the main character of the story.
Describe the hero’s appearance.
Read the story and formulate its main idea.
Read the story and try to retell it using the given words and word combinations.
Pick out the sentences in the text which might explain the title.
Say which of the proverbs following the story makes the best nding to it.
Look at the pictures, choose the one which describes the episode from the text.
- Міністерство освіти і науки україни
- Content
- Unit I about myself. Exercises.
- II Remember this proverb:
- III Greetings, Enquiries About Health.
- Illustrative Dialogues.
- V. Choose the best answer.
- VI. Make up your own dialogues.
- VII. Read the text and answer the questions. Hi! This is Me.
- VIII. Ask the questions to have the following answers.
- IX Speak about yourself. Text for Supplementary Reading the secret of happiness.
- What is Happiness for You
- Grammar exercises.
- IX. Read quickly in the singular.
- The article.
- XV. Rewrite the sentences including the words in brackets.
- Question forms
- Unit II.
- IX. Give your own opinion about Max's family.
- X. Communicative activities.
- XI. Read and do the task below.
- XII. Generation gap.
- XIII. A Family Conflict
- XIV. How not to talk to your Mother.
- XVI. Write the answer to Helen's letter. Give them advice about the problem. Give reason for advice. Make predictions about how the situation will change. Text for Supplementary Reading.
- Vicky Samson.
- Grammar exercises. Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- VI. Complete the sentences using the correct form of the adjectives in brackets.
- VII. Translate into English.
- Unit III. My rights and duties.
- II. Remember these sayings.
- How do you understand them?
- III. Introductions. Read and learn.
- Informal:
- IV. Read the dialogues, learn any of them and reproduce it.
- Informal
- V. A team of volleyball players from Kyiv has come to Hlukhiv to take part in a competition. One of the players Peter Klymenko is getting acquainted with Victor Kovalenko.
- VI. Make up your own dialogue.
- VII. Read and translate the text.
- VIII. What are all these rights about? How do you understand them? Are they fair?
- IX. Agree or disagree. Use these expressions.
- X. Which rights seem the most important to you? Do you enjoy all these rights? And what about your duties?
- XI. Work in pairs. Make up a dialogue about your rights and duties. Text for Supplementary Reading.
- Grammar exercises. Present Simple
- I Open the brackets. Put the verbs in the Present Simple Tense.
- II Put these sentences into interrogative and negative forms.
- III. Transform these sentences according to the model. Give short answer to the questions.
- B.: … neither …
- VIII. The reasons of smoking.
- IX.What piece of advice can you give to a smoker who has made up his mind to give up this bad habit?
- X. Draw funny cartoons on smokers. Add some more sentences to help your friends to give up smoking.
- XII. Match the English sentences with their Ukrainian equivalents.
- XIV.Read these quotations and fill the table.
- XV. Food plays a very important part in our life. Read the text and learn how it all happens. Then retell the text. How it Happens.
- XVI. What should people do if they don’t want to be fat? Read the text and write a letter to your friend who likes to eat fast food. Fat Farmers.
- VXII. Read the text " Healthy Henry". " Healthy Henry".
- XVIII. What quotation illustrates this text best of all?
- XIX. Are you healthy?
- XX. Remember some good rules:
- Grammar Exercises. The Past Simple.
- Unit V. Sports in our life. Exercises.
- Cheerleaders.
- Recommend this man several kinds of sport which could be less dangerous.
- IX.Read the information and in not more than 25 words tell the main content of it. Olympic Games.
- X. Read the following texts and speak about the famous sportsmen of the world.
- XI. Study the table:
- XII. Read the composition below and write an essay reflecting the situation with sport in our country. Guiding questions will help you to cope with your work. The Importance of Sport.
- Guiding Questions.
- Grammar exercises Future Simple.
- Unit VI. Leisure Time. Hobbies. Exercises.
- Illustrative Dialogues.
- Looking for Names.
- Photography as a Hobby.
- Are You Completely Bananas?
- My Hobbies.
- My Hobby.
- My Hobby.
- XI.If you can’t choose any hobby ask your friend for advice. Make up a dialogue
- Text for Supplementary Reading. Hobbies.
- Unit VII. Leisure Time. Theatre. Cinema. Exercises.
- Invitations.
- Illustrative dialogues.
- Remember these words:
- Text for Supplementary Reading. A Miracle.
- Grammar tests.
- 1. Choose the correct variant of the verb :
- 2. Open the brackets :
- 3. You have an answer. What was the question?
- Unit VIII. Leisure. Time. Music. Exercises.
- The power of music.
- Do you like music?
- Text for Supplementary Reading. M. Lysenko.
- Whitney houston.
- Grammar tests.
- 1. Choose the correct variant of the verb :
- 2. Open the brackets :
- 3. You have an answer. What was the question?
- 5. You have an answer. What was the question?
- 6. Open the brackets :
- Unit IX
- IV.Match English words and their translations.
- V.Translate into English in written.
- VII. Decide which word is odd one in each group and give your reasons
- VIII. Anagrams. How quickly can you unscramble the following words?
- IX. Word formation Complete the chart:
- X. Read and say your opinion on the topic.
- XI.Write an essay about the necessity of education nowadays and what do you need to be an educated person. Text for Supplementary Reading. British universities and colleges
- Vocabulary:
- IV. Pair work. You are a student of our college. What does it mean to be a student?
- VI. Read and answer the questions. Our college
- VI. Say which activities at the lessons and after school give you opportunities:
- VIII. Write a letter to your friend about your college life. Grammar exercises
- 6. Translate into English.
- Unit XI jobs and professions Exercises
- V. Name at least 3 jobs for each item of the list below. Give reasons to explain your choice in written form.
- Vocabulary:
- IX. There are a number of terms and abbreviations that you need to know before you can make sense of want ads. Look through some abbreviations.
- X. These ads are from original foreign newspaper try to guess the meaning of them.
- XI. Read this help-wanted ad. Decide which of the three people is best qualified to do the job. Give reasons for your decisions.
- XII. Speak about your future profession using the plan:
- These questions will help you.
- XIII. Choose one of the quotations as a topic for your essay.
- Texts for Supplementary Reading My Future Profession
- Computer Programmer
- A Businessman / a Businesswoman
- Grammar exercises.
- 7.Open the brackets .
- Unit XII.
- IV.Comment on popular inventions using the following expressions:
- V. Read brief information about scientists
- Inventors and inventions
- Vocabulary.
- VI. Scanning brief information about scientists work in groups:
- VII. Illustrative dialogues.
- VIII. Arrange the words in a sentence:
- IX. Read the text. Put the verbs in brackets either in the Past Simple Active or the Past Simple Passive.
- Texts for Supplementary Reading
- Grammar exercises. Passive Voice
- 2. Translate in English using Past Simple Active або Past Simple Passive.
- 3. Translate in English using Future Simple Active або Future Simple Passive.
- 4. Use the Passive Voice.
- Unit XIII
- Mass media
- The power and dangers of television
- Exercises.
- The Influence of tv on Children
- Imagine that you were offered to run a youth channel on tv. Decide on the following:
- Grammar exercises. The sequence of tenses
- Unit XIV
- Mass media
- The world of press
- Exercises
- Newspapers and Magazines in Ukraine.
- Illustrative dialogues.
- Street Children.
- Supplementary Task
- Grammar exercises. The sequence of tenses
- Unit XV the world of books Exercises
- I.Listen and read. [ r]
- II.Remember these proverbs, and quotations. What do you think of them? How do you understand these words.
- III.What genres of books do you know? Complete the spider gram with the words concerning genres of books of types of publications.
- IV.Fill in the table:
- V.Match the words with their definitions:
- VI.Fill in the following sentences with the give prepositions:
- V.Which is the odd word in each group and why?
- VI.Put each of the following words in its correct place in the passage below: Bibliography, bookworm, reviews, illustrations, borrow, published
- VII.Match the following works to their authors. Use Passive Voice.
- VIII.What kind of writes were these people?
- IX.Speaking. Books teach us a lot of different things. What are your ideas about it? Fill in the chat.
- X.Literary heroes can teach you a lot, too. What do they teach you? Fill in the chat.
- XI.Read an example of book review. Harry Potter
- Useful Phrases
- I like to read
- Is it useful to read books?
- Grammar exercises. The sequence of tenses
- 3. Render the following texts in indirect speech.
- I. Mark twain and the game warden
- II. Time works wonders
- III. An automobile story
- IV. Bad manners
- V. The boy and the cakes
- VI. Too clever
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