pw_Unit_4.pdf

STORIES

speak out Upper Intermediate

UNIT 4

Overview

Watch the video podcast. Do you enjoy similar books to any of the people in the podcast?

Read the text below about Val’s reading habits. Then watch the video

podcast from 0:10-0:26 and delete the incorrect words.

I 1 write / read a lot, mostly non-iction books about history and 2 politics /

economics, but I also like some 3 iction / poetry too. I’m outside the

Tate Modern in central London asking people about 4 books / reading .

Do you 5 like books / read much ?

Val

Glossary: non-iction = books about real facts or events, not imagined ones

2 Do you read much? Watch the video podcast from 0:27-0:51 and complete the responses.

Rob

Hannah

Bob

1 I do yeah. I try to read as

_______ as ___________.

2 Yeah, I do. I’m a great

______________.

3 Yes I do yes. Mostly

____________.

Adela

Alice

Robert

4 I read a lot of fashion

____________.

5 Yeah, I read a _________ bit.

6 I read a lot of _________

books.

What was the last book you read? Look at the titles of the ive books below. Then look at the brief

descriptions of the books 1-5. Try to match the titles A-E to the descriptions. Then watch the video

podcast from 0:52-1:55 to check your answers.

Water for

Elephants

The Search

Breaking Dawn

Johnny Panic

and the

Bible of Dreams

Dirk Gently’s

Holistic Detective

Agency

1 an ‘easy read’ that is fun and humorous

2 a story about a circus in 1930’s America

3 a collection of short stories by Sylvia Plath

4 part of the Twilight Saga by Stephanie Myers

5 It’s set in the States. It’s about a man who’s paid to pursue another person

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STORIES

speak out Upper Intermediate

UNIT 4

Whas your favoute book? Watch the video podcast from 1:58 -2:31 and write true (T) or false (F)

next to each statement.

Hannah

Robert

Alice

1 Her favourite book is set in the

Second World War. F

2 The book is about a day in

the life of an ordinary woman.

_______

3 His favourite book is a comic

book. _______

4 This book is about “Superman”

_______

5 Her favourite book has a

French title. _______

6 The book is about a married

couple who have a bad

relationship. _______

Glossary: traces her existence = follows her life; mundane = about ordinary daily life; siblings = a brother

or sister

Which icional character would you most ike to be, or meet? Look at the people below and read the

names of the ictional characters they would like to meet. Then watch the video podcast from 2:31-3:30

and match the characters with the people.

Rob

Bob

Robert

Alice

Hannah

1 The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland .

2 Mr Darcy from Pride and Prejudice .

3 John Self from the novel Money .

4 The character Humbert Humbert from Lolita.

5 The Joker from the Batman comics.

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STORIES

speak out Upper Intermediate

UNIT 4

The people in the pictures below talk about books they have read. Read what they say and complete

their responses with the words and phrases from the box. Then watch the video podcast from 0:52-2:31

again and check your answers.

last called It’s about heard of traces recommended

of all time about author it’s set by called

Hannah

Rob

Well, the 1 _______ book I read was Water for

Elephants 2 _______ Sara Gruen which was a book

3 ______________ to me by some friends – I’d

never 4 ______________ her, or indeed, the book

– but I enjoyed it very much. It was a story

5 _______ a circus in the 1930’s America.

My favourite book 6 ______________ is a book

7 _______ One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes

which is a book about a housewife, just after

the Second World War and it just 8 _______ her

existence in a day of her life. It’s terribly mundane.

The last book I read was a novel 9 _______ The

Search by a London 10 _______ called Geoff Dyer

and it’s about, 11 ______________ in the States.

12 ______________ a man who’s paid to pursue

another person and he travels across the land

trying to catch him.

Write your answers to the questions. Try to use some of the language from the video podcasts.

1 What’s your favourite book and why?

______________________________________________________________________

2 Which ictional character would you most like to be, or meet?

______________________________________________________________________

BBC LINK

University students in Scotland are investigating how to use new technology to

keep traditional story-telling alive.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7380901.stm

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