Books are our friends and teachers

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Books are our friends and teachers
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Warming up

• Match the words with their definitions.
  
• Stories, novels, poems, plays in books.
  
• a) Literature
• A place where the books for borrowing are kept.
  
• b) Library
• A person who writes books.
  
• c) Author
• A written account of events and people, either
  
• imagined or real.
• d) Story
• A story about the life in the future often
  describing
• space travel and life on other planets
• e) Science fiction
• A story which describes some events in history.
  
• f) Historical novel
• A story which describes some crime events.
  
• g) Detective story
• People, described in a story or a novel.
  
• h) Characters

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Speaking

• Is reading important in your life? Why? Why not?
• How old you were when you started to read? Who
  taught you to read?
• Is reading your hobby or necessity?
• Can you tell what kind of books do you have on
  your shelves at home?

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Work in groups

• Put the books on the right shelves in
  alphabetical order. Make an alphabetical list of
  titles for each shelf Non-fiction, Fiction,
  Reference.
• Non-fiction ???????-????????? ??????????
• Fiction ??????? ??????????
• Reference- ????????? ??????????

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Maps of the world
The History of Art,
Encyclopedia
P.L.Travers Marry Poppins
Dictionary of Synonyms
Picasso's Life,
A History of Britain
Ancient Greece
Short Stories
J.Rowling Harry Potter
Journey through Africa,
C.Dickens Oliver Twist
World Atlas
L.Caroll Alice in Wonderland
Mars as We Know It ,
Flowers of Great Britain,
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ListeningHistory of the book

1. 10.000 years ago - In Samaria (ancient Saudi
   Arabia) the book began its journey. The book had
   a cuneiform
2. 3500 B.C.- Egyptians had developed more complex
   form of writing with pictures called hieroglyphs.
   The books were written on the papyrus. Papyrus
   became the major industry for the Egyptians and
   they began to export it. Greece was a West
   customer of papyrus.
3. The Greeks began to make scrolls out of the
   papyrus, they were easy to carry. Scrolls made it
   easier for scholars and teachers to learn at that
   time. The Greeks also invented the alphabet of 24
   symbols called letters.
4. 146 B.C. Roman Empire conquered Greece. At this
   time the books were wooden and tied together.
   This book became known as the codex- bound
   book.
5. After the invention of wooden books appeared
   books made of parchment. They had many advantages
   because it was possible to write at the both
   sides of the paper, to paint on it. It was the
   first version of the modern book

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• 6) In China it was invented the new way of
  gluing the papers which were written on the palm
  leaves or bounding the pages in the form of the
  fan
• 7) In the Middle Ages books were written
  by scribes in the monasteries. There were special
  rooms for it, they were called scriptoria.
• 8) 1100 monks began to make illuminated
  colorful manuscripts, however the demand for the
  books was growing and it was a need to invent
  some quick way of writing books.
• 9) 1450- the invention of printing press
  by J.Guttenberg in Germany. Many copies could be
  printed at the same time.
• 10) 1500 books become affordable and
  available for people
• 11) 1800- the first paper books were
  published
• 12) E-book is the modern type of book which
  has an access to the Internet and download any
  kind of information you need