Розвиток навичок читання 8 клас за темою "Книги. Письменники"

1. Read the text and mark the following statements «True» (T) or «False» (F).

Cornelia Funke is a German writer. Her famous story «Inkheart» is a rich story centred around a 12-year-old book lover whose father has a unique gift for bringing the world of books to life. «Inkheart» was the first in a trilogy and Funke followed with «Inkspell» and «Inkdeath». Before writing «Inkheart», she learns about booksellers, book collectors, book thieves and even book murderers as well as reading about martens and fire-eaters. She then imagines the characters and the places they might go, writes down lines for the first 20 chapters. Then, and only then — after about six months — she writes the first sentence. A novel will take her about a year to write. She always does her own sketches — in pen and ink, she creates a picture of her own characters to help her write about them. She married printer Rolf Funke in 1981. They have two children, Anna and Ben. Up until 2005 the Funke family lived in Hamburg, Germany, when they moved to Los Angeles. Sadly, in March 2006, Rolf died of cancer.

1) «Inkheart» is the first book in the series.

2) «Inkheart» is about the girl who can bring characters of books to life.

3) Before writing a story the author finds out a lot of things she wants to write about.

4) It takes Cornelia Funke six months to write a story.

5) Cornelia’s grandfather illustrates her books.

6) Cornelia Funke is a widow.

2. Read the text and mark the following statements «True» (T) or «False» (F).

«The Spiderwick Chronicles» is a series of children’s books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. They write about the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into Spiderwick Estate and discover a world of faeries that they never knew existed. According to a letter from Holly Black it all started when she and Tony DiTerlizzi were at a bookstore signing autographs and were given a letter that the Grace children had left for them. The letter told them about a book that «tells people how to find faeries and how to protect themselves». The letter went on to say, «We just want people to know about this. The things that have happened to us could happen to anyone». A few days later, according to Black, she and DiTerlizzi met the Grace children, and the story the children told them became «The Spiderwick Chronicles».

1) «The Spiderwick Chronicles» is a set of books.

2) The book was written by one author.

3) There were two girls and a boy in the family.

4) The children had adventures that began when they were leaving the Spiderwick house.

5) The magic began after reading the letter.

6) The story was told by the faeries.