Actividad 01-Unidad 08 - 5to

Docente: Garcia Peña Jossy Liz
I.E.P EL NAZARENO UNIT 08: INVENTIONS

5° Año de secundaria
ACTIVITY 01: BOOKS, BOOKS,

EXERCISE 01. READ AND ANSWER BOOKS
A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink,
paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one
side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is
called a page. A book produced in electronic format is known as an electronic
book (e–book).
Books may also refer to works of literature, or a main division of such a work. In library and information
science, a book is called a monograph, to distinguish it from serial periodicals
such as magazines, journals or newspapers. The body of all written works
including books is literature. In novels and sometimes other types of books (for example, biographies).
A store where books are bought and sold is a bookstore or bookshop.

Books can also be borrowed from libraries. In 2010, google estimated
that since the invention of printing, approximately 130,000,000 unique
titles had been published.
TYPES OF BOOKS
1. Do you like reading?
Fiction Horror Autobiography Children’s
Non-fiction Science fiction Memoir Young adult
Romance Fantasy Self-help Poetry
Mystery Historical fiction Business Drama
Thriller Biography Travel Comedy
___________________________________________________________
2. What kind of books do you like reading? ___________________________________________________________
3. Where do you like to read? In your bedroom? In the dining room? Why?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
4. What is the title of your favorite book? ____________________________________________________________
5. What is your favorite magazine or newspaper? _____________________________________________________
EXERCISE 02. READ THE PHRASES ABOUT BOOKS AND READING. OPEN THE BRACKETS
USING PROPER FORMS OF THE VERBS.
1. You _____ (to be) never alone when you read books. Susan Wiggs
2. A reader _____ (to live) thousand lives before he _____ (to die). The man who never ______ (to read) lives only one.
George Martin
3. People who say they _________ (not/to have) time to read simply ____________ (not/to want) to. Julie Rugg
4. Some books ______ (to be) to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis
Bacon
EXERCISE 03. CONTINUE THE PHRASE WITH A WORD FROM THE WORD LIST BELOW.
Word list: an e-library, lifehacks, a poet, cover, fables, table of contents.
1. Aesop wrote a lot of ____________.

2. If you don’t have a book, you need you can find it in _____________.
3. Self-help books contain many _________________.
4. A writer who writes poetry is called _____________.
5. Don’t judge a book by its _______________.
6. I can’t find a necessary chapter. Look it up at the ____________________
EXERCISE 04. MATCH THE BOOK AND THE AUTHOR. WRITE THE SENTENCES IN PAST SIMPLE
PASSIVE.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
J.K. Rowling Mark Twain Rudyard Kipling J.R.R. Tolkien Agatha Christie Lewis Carroll
A) C) D) F)
B) E)
A. ____________________________________________________________________________
B. ____________________________________________________________________________
C. ____________________________________________________________________________
D. ____________________________________________________________________________
E. ____________________________________________________________________________
F. ____________________________________________________________________________
EXERCISE 05. GUESS THE BOOK CHARACTER.
Tom Sawyer Hercule Poirot Alice Carlson Peter Pan Hamlet
1. This detective character was created by Agatha Christie. ______________________

2. She travelled through Wonderland. ______________________
3. He lives on a rooftop and likes jam. ______________________
4. This character lives in Never Never Land. ______________________
5. This character is Prince of Denmark. ______________________
6. His friend is Huckleberry Finn. ______________________
LISTE
NING
1.- Listen to a conversation between Laura and Mrs. Wilson, her school librarian.
What kinds of books does Laura prefer?
ACTIV
Laura prefers ______________________ and _________________________ such as
_______________________________ and _______________________________.
ITY
2.- Listen again. True or False? Correct the false sentences.
1) Laura must write a book review by next week. true / false

2) Laura had read some books by George Orwell. true / false
3) Laura wants to read a short book. true / false
4) Mrs. Wilson prefers fiction and fantasy books. true / false
5) The book by Isaac Asimov is amusing and serious, too. true / false
3.- Now answer these questions about their conversation.
1) Why will she have enough time to read the book?

Because Laura _________________________________________________.
2) “I’d prefer an amusing novel, Mrs. Wilson – not too long, just something
short and fun to read in an evening”, Laura says.
Which book does Laura choose to read? ___________________________.
3) What of these adjectives below have you heard? 
 amazing  amusing  complicated  critical
 depressing  educational  encouraging  entertaining
 extraordinary  funny  imaginative  long
 original  short  serious  weird

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Docente: Garcia Peña Jossy Liz

I.E.P EL NAZARENO UNIT 08: INVENTIONS

ACTIVITY 01: BOOKS, BOOKS,

A store where books are bought and sold is a bookstore or bookshop.

Word list: an e-library, lifehacks, a poet, cover, fables, table of contents.

1. Aesop wrote a lot of ____________.

EXERCISE 05. GUESS THE BOOK CHARACTER.

Tom Sawyer Hercule Poirot Alice Carlson Peter Pan Hamlet

1. This detective character was created by Agatha Christie. ______________________

What kinds of books does Laura prefer?

_______________________________ and _______________________________.

1) Laura must write a book review by next week. true / false

3.- Now answer these questions about their conversation.

1) Why will she have enough time to read the book?

Which book does Laura choose to read? ___________________________.

3) What of these adjectives below have you heard? 

 amazing  amusing  complicated  critical

 depressing  educational  encouraging  entertaining

 extraordinary  funny  imaginative  long

 original  short  serious  weird

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