Unit 11 bai READING

True or False statement prediction 1.You can’t read different types of books in the same way 2.When you taste a book you read it carefully from the beginning to the end 3.You can swallow[r]

Teacher: Pham Thi To Quyen NGUYEN DINH CHIEU HIGH SCHOOL Pre reading LOOK AT SOME BOOKS AND GUESS WHAT SORT OF BOOKS THEY BELONG TO THEN NAME SOME MORE TYPES THAT YOU KNOW Comic books Text books Novel Thriller, biography, fiction, craft, romance… Science books To chew [t∫u:] : nghiền ngẫm To digest [daid’ʒest] : đọc và suy ngẫm To swallow: đọc ngốn ngấu To dip into : đọc lướt To taste [teist] : đọc thử Hard to pick up again: không thể cầm lên lại Hard to put down: không thể đặt xuống Checking Vocabulary Đọc qua loa, đọc thử taste Đọc nghiền ngẫm chew Đọc ngấu ngốn swallow Đọc lướt qua dip into Đọc và suy ngẫm digest Không thể cầm lên lại hard-to-pick-up-again Không thể đặt xuống hard –to-put-down FRANCIS BACON said: “ SOME BOOKS ARE TO BE TASTED, OTHERS TO BE SWOLLOWED, AND SOME FEW TO BE CHEWED AND DIGESTED “ 1.True , False or not mentioned You can’t read different types of books in the same way When you taste a book you read it carefully from the beginning to the end You can swallow a book when you find a good story and have time to enjoy it Books with good stories are often described as “ hard –to – put – down” 5.Television has replaced books altogether T F NM True or False statement prediction 1.You can’t read different types of books in the same way 2.When you taste a book you read it carefully from the beginning to the end 3.You can swallow a book when you find a good story and have time to enjoy it 4.Books with good stories are often described as “ hard –to – put – down” 5.Television has replaced books altogether Books On the subject of reading, Francis Bacon, who lived at about the same time as Shakespeare, wrote these words, “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” This good advice shows how it is possible to read different types of books in different ways For example, you might pick up a travel book and read a few pages before going to sleep It is enough to dip into it and read bits here and there In a word, this is “tasting” Some stories are for “swallowing” Imagine that you have found a good story, and, what is even more important, the time to enjoy it You might be on holiday, or on a long train journey If it is a good book, you might say, “It’s so good I can’t put it down.” But not all stories belong to this class Reviewers sometimes describe books as “hard-to-put-down”, or “hard-to-pick-up-again” Other books are for reading slowly and carefully If it is a book on a subject that you are interested in , you will want to “chew and digest it” That does not mean reading it too slowly When you pick up a book for the first time, check that it is not too difficult Do not start a book unless you can see from the first few pages that it is one you can say easily read and understand Some people think that as more and more people have television in their homes, fewer and fewer people will buy books to read Why read when television can bring you all the information and stories with color, picture and action? 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Books are still a cheap way to get information and entertainment; you can keep a book forever and read it many times LET’S LISTEN TO OUR CLASSMATES TALK ABOUT BOOKS It is said that books are always good friends and reading is a continuous and never ending process.Books help us to build our spirit, give information,pass time, make us understand more about ours and other cultures, help us to write and think better Probably because life has become so complex.Today people have far more free time to use, more choices to make and more problems to solve BOOKS CAN HELP PEOPLE DEAL WITH MODERN LIFE HOMEWORK Write a short paragraph about the benefits of reading books Prepare SPEAKING