Презентація за темою: "The importance of reading books for students" з дисципліни "Іноземна мова (за професійним спрямуванням)"

The importance of reading books for students Preparedby the teacher of Donbas state college of technology and management. Hanna Pavlova

Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested. Bacon. A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero. The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. Parker. Bad books are worse than useless; they are harmful. Tolstoy, Lev Do you agree with these quotes of great people? Express your point of view. Give your own examples.

The world of books It is interesting to read different kinds of books. "Except for a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! They teach us and open their hearts to us as brothers", wrote Charles Kingsley, an English writer of the 19th century. Books teach us to live. We learn many things by reading books. There are different kinds of books: novels, short stories, tales, fairytales, fables, poems, plays, memoirs, atlases and text-books. Books can be humorous, adventurous, detective, fantastic, historical, political, scientific. They can be interesting, thrilling, fascinating, exciting, powerful, useful, unusual, original, amusing, moving, true-to-life, well-written, unoriginal. Books are certainly one of the greatest inventions of man. O. Wilde wrote: "Books, I believe, may be divided into three groups: books to read; books to re-read; books not to read at all.“The third class is the most important. To tell people what to read is, as a rule, either useless or harmful. But to tell people what not to read is a very different matter. It is indeed necessary in this age of ours, an age that reads so much that it has no time to admire, and that writes so much that it has no time to think. Whoever will select "The Worst Hundred Books" and publish a list of them will do the rising generation a real service. Some English author once wrote: "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested". This quotation tells us how to read books of different kinds. Most travel books are to be tasted; it's enough to dip into them and read bits here and there. If you are fond of crime stories (Agatha Christie, Simenon and the rest of modem favourites), you will read them quickly, you'll swallow them. If a book is on an important subject, and the subject you are interested in, you'll want to chew and digest it. And you'll want to weigh what the author says, and consider his ideas and arguments.

Vocabulary tale [teɪl] розповідь, повість fairy-tale ['feərɪteɪl] — казка fable [feɪbl] — байка adventurous [əd'ventʃ(ə)rəs] — пригодницький thrilling ['θriliŋ] — хвилюючий, захопливий fascinating ['fæsɪneɪtɪŋ] — чарівний; принадний amusing [ə'mju:zɪŋ] — забавний, цікавий to taste [teɪst] — пробувати на смак; куштувати to swallow ['swɔləu] — ковтати, проковтувати to chew [lʃu:] — пережовувати to digest [dɪ'dʒest] — засвоювати, сприймати to dip into — занурюватися; поверхово, неуважно переглядати

Questions:1. Do you agree that there are three groups of books: books you must read; books you must re-read; books you must not read at all?2. Which is the largest and the smallest group? Why?3. How do you choose a book to read?4. What books do you re-read?5. How do you know what books not to read at all?6. Do you agree that a list of the "Worst Hundred Books" may be useful?

The importance of reading books for students Nowadays it's almost impossible to imagine our life without books. Perhaps, there are more books on our planet than men alive. Long before the invention of printing people valued books as treasure troves of the human knowledge and experience. Hand — written manuscripts took months of writing and were collected by and kept in monasteries with utmost care. We can distinguish books between three classes of them. Firstly, books on different branches of knowledge, works by brilliant minds of mankind. Secondly, textbooks, reference books and numerous dictionaries. And at last, books of all kinds and genres to read at leisure. Classics should be taken a little at a time. One's understanding of books by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Mopassan and Balzak depends on one's age and experience. Serious books are to be read conscientiously and maybe more than once. To a thinking reader they will provide new food for thought every time he rereads it. Many people indulge in reading science fiction, fantasy or detective stories. Of course, there are some advantages and disadvantages of this kind of literature, often referred to as «easy reading». As for me, good science fiction and fantasy develop imagination, logical thinking, broader one's outlook. The same could be said in favour of detective stories. They reveal such minute details of everyday life in this or that particular country that are of greatest interest for a curious reader. The masterpieces of this genre by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and others, show the depths of psychological analysis, the insight into the human nature. As an old saying goes, man cannot live on bread alone. Books are the source of knowledge and the means of self — perfection. Sometimes it is difficult to solve some problems in life. I think that books can help us. Books must be our friends during all our life.

Vocabulary: treasure trove — скарбниця monastery — монастир conscientiously — свідомо to indulge in — захоплюватися science fiction — наукова фантастика outlook — кругозір. Questions:1. What kind of books do you prefer to read?2. Do you like to read English or Ukraine books?3. Is it possible to live without books for you?4. Books are our friends, aren't they?5. How many classes of books do we distinguish?

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