Reading is famous hobby too.
a. Learn the following statements. Do you agree with them? Comment on them. Wear the old coat and buy a new book. A room without books is a body without a soul. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. Mark Twain. B. Practice reading the following words and word combinations. Learn them by heart.
c. Learn the following dialogue: A: Do you like reading? B: I enjoy reading! I simply cannot imagine my life without books. A: And what kind of reading do you prefer? B: Oh, I am fond of historical novels. I also like reading adventure stories and science fiction. A: What about fantasy? B: I don’t like fantasy. I find it boring. A: Do you? How strange. To my mind, fantasy is exciting reading. B: Well, I don’t find it exciting. And anyway, I prefer instructive reading. d. Speak about a book or story you have read, using the following patterns: -I am going to say a few words about a book (story) I’ve recently read. -The book (story) is written by the well- known English (Russian…) writer of the …th century…(name of the writer). -The title of the book is …. -It’s a historical novel \an adventure story\ etc. -The scene is laid in (place) in the (time). -The plot of the book is interesting. - The charactersare well drawn. - The book tells about a …who…(here the contents of the book must be given very briefly). - There are some humorous\ tragic\ sad\ etc episodes in the book. - I could not help smiling\ crying\ etc when I read about … - To cut a long story short, …(here the end of the book must be given). - My account is very incomplete, I haven’t mentioned, for instance, the …and the …, but\ because… - On the whole, the book is good. It is worth reading. - If you like historical novels \science fiction\ etc I advise you to read it.
POPULAR MUSIC (maladapted text) ROCK Popular music in the United States has been far from monolithic. Its many versions have included minstrel songs, operetta, Broadway ballads, ragtime, blues, jazz, folk, country and western, and most recently, rock and roll. Born in the 1950s, rock was an unpromising infant, was many times pronounced dying, and is now a teenage giant whose influence is being felt not only in popular music but also throughout all areas of music. It has entered the concert hall sponsored by such scholarly groups as the Pro Musica Antiqua; the musical theatre with Hair, the second longest running show currently on Broadway, and the church. If jazz began the removal of the barrier between popular and art music, rock has now also taken up the work. But the interchange has been reciprocal. Not only has the musical world been affected by rock, but rock has become serious both in its lyrics and in some of its techniques, which it seems to have taken from art music.
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