1. Which is easier for you to get the news from:
a) a newspaper? b) the television or radio? c) the Internet?
2) Which is more interesting for you:
a) to read a biography of a famous person? b) to watch a TV program about a famous person?
3) Which is cheaper in your country:
a) a paperbook? b) a ticket to the cinema or theatre?
4) which is it most important to have in your home:
a) fiction books such as novels, short stories and books of poems?
b) non-fiction books such as dictionaries and encyclopedias?
c) a mixture of both non-fiction and your favourite fiction?
6. Use substitution table, answer the questions. Different genres of books teach us a lot of different things. What are your ideas about it?
BOOKS
| about great people
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teach us to
| be brave and honest,
love our Motherland
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travellers
| be true friends
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on history
| understand other people
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about nature
| be noble and hard-working
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FAIRY TALES
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| love nature and take care of nature
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FABLES
| understand what is wrong and what is right
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NOVELS
| help animals and birds
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ADVENTURES
| be serious and industrious
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POEMS
| be polite with people
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THRILLERS
| be attentive to people
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FICTION BOOKS
| be kind and clever, honest and modest
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CLASSICS
| love Homeland
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SCIENCE BOOKS
| understand the beauty of nature, protect it
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FANTASY BOOKS
| develop our imagination
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Literary heroes can teach us a lot. What do they teach you?
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| strong and healthy
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| kind-hearted, generous
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| greedy, rude
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| fables
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| boastful, inactive
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The heroes
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| unskillful or undisciplined
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| fairy-tales
| teach us to be
| unkind, inattentive
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| of
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| teach us not to be
| unfriendly or cruel
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Characters
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| legends
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| dishonest, mean
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| weak or cowardly
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| fiction
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| stupid or lazy
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| hard-working, industrious
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| adventures
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| curios, skillful
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| helpful, persistent
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| ???
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| careful, attentive
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| active, lively
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| truthful, friendly, polite...
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