a) Turn the above passages into dialogues and act them out.
b) Choose an author, not necessarily one of the greats, you'd like to talk about. Note down a few pieces of factual Information about his life and work. Your fellow-students will ask you questions to find out what you know about your subject.
6. Pair work. Discussing books and authors involves exchanging opinions and expressing agreement and disagreement. Team up with another student to talk on the following topics (Use expressions of agreement and disagreement (pp. 290).
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
(Samuel Johnson)
"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
(Mark Twain)
"There's an old saying that all the world loves a lover. It doesn't. What all the world loves is a scrap. It wants to see two lovers struggling for the hand of one woman."
(Anonymous)
"No furniture is so charming as books, even if you never open them and read a single word."
(Sydney Smith)
"Books and friends should be few but good."
(a proverb)
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