Презентация урока (Lesson 14) к учебнику "Project 4" (3rd edition) by Tom Hutchinson, James Gault. Издательство Oxford University Press.

Culture

Read and listen to the texts. Match the headings to the correct paragraphs.

• Books.
• Reading at school.
• Magazines and comics.
• How much do teenagers read?

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Read and listen to the texts again.

What differences are there between boys‘ and girls’ reading habits?

Copy and complete the chart.

Boys

Girls

like reading less, read 2,5 hours a

week, read non-fiction and film stories

like reading more, read 4,5 hours

a week, read fiction (JK Rowling and

read online song lyrics and computer

game cheats, read magazines about

Jacqueline Wilson), like celebrity and

general teenage magazines, most

their interests (cars, football,

competitions, music), read comics

don‘t read comics

How many authors can you find in the text? What do you know about them? Have you read any of their books?

JK Rowling

is the author of seven Harry Potter novels.

Jacqueline Wilson

‘ Girls’ series - Girls in Love (1997), Girls Under Pressure (1998), Girls Out Late (1999) and Girls in Tears (2002)

Charles John Huffam Dickens

'Oliver Twist,' 'A Christmas Carol,' 'David Copperfield'

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

English writer who achieved fame with his book

The Hobbit (1937) and his epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).

George Orwell

is English novelist and critic

famous for his novels

“ Animal Farm” (1945)

and “Nineteen Eighty-four” (1949).

John Ernst Steinbeck

an American writer. His most famous works include Of Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1939). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.

William Shakespeare was an English poet.

His work includes 154 sonnets and 38 plays. The most famous are “Romeo and Juliet” and “Hamlet”.

Mark Twain was an American writer.

His novels are “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”(1876),

“ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”(1885).

Write about your own reading habits.

1. How much do you read in a week?

2. Where and when do you read?

3. What do you read? Who are your favourite authors?

4. What books do you have to read for school?

5. Do you borrow books from libraries?