Unit 8 On Buying Books

1. Unit 8  On Buying Books Objectives: • Learn the way of persuasive writing. • Learn to use the useful expressions and some sentence frames to make a suggestion.

2. Pre-reading Lead-in(pair work + group work): • 1. Do you visit bookshops often? • 2. What is usually your purpose of visiting a bookshop, to buy books or just to browse among books?

3. 3. Which do you prefer to visit, a bookshop has closed shelves? • 4. How much help do you want to get from a bookshop assistant? • 5. Why do or don’t you buy books? Do you think you have time for reading in your daily life?

4. Useful words and expression for discussion: • get in the habit of visiting bookstores around the campus ... • get in the habit of going into the second-hand book market, • Book stalls • I had the pleasure of visiting • highly recommend to the book-reading public • well worth visiting

5. roam about • it is my experience in almost every small, independent bookstore I have the pleasure of visiting. .. . • takes great pleasure • read to one’s heart’s content • browse… for…/through books • I often find myself visiting bookstores here in … • quality entertainment and alternatives

6. In-reading • 1. Find out the exact words or the number of the sentences that best sums up the main idea in each paragraph. • 2. The style / genre of the text: persuasive writing. ( the writer’s purpose is to persuade his readers to accept his point of view: “ Time spent in a bookshop can be most • 3. Illustates how a perfect book-seller should behave.

7. Details and difficult sentences: • 1. Do exercises of Questions on page 93 -94 in the textbook. • 2. Do exercise of comprehension on page 111-112 in the workbook. • 3. Do exercise of paraphrase on page 112-113 in the workbook.

8. Language points: • 1. apart from: except for; as well as e.g. Apart from the expense, I simply can’t afford the time to travel during the holiday. • 2. run up: increase, add to the amount of, grow quickly in amount e.g. She is a book-lover. She used to run up a big bill at the bookstore. Mother is always shocked to find that she has run up a huge account there at the end of her visit to the supermarket.

9. 3. in case: if it should happen that (someone might be…) E.g. A notice was put up in case ______.

10. After-reading discussion(group work) What do you think of the decline in reading books and magazines? • /reflects a changing lifestyle in this ever-developing world when the access to information is no longer limited to printed publications. • /Busy lifestyles are a major reason for this loss of book reading.

11. /the different channels to information have taken some of the printed publications' market share and their readers. • /More and more people admit that they are turning to the Internet, instead of newspapers and the radio, for news.

12. /The Internet has attracted an increasing number of people by providing more information in a faster and more convenient way. It saves people travelling to libraries, combing the shelves and having to scan entire books for information.

13. /A survey said 18.3 per cent of people now read online, compared with 3.7 per cent in 1998. The rate must be much higher among the younger generation. • /Such a change is global.

14. /Reading fewer books and magazines does not mean people are learning less. They simply have more choice. • /While the quality of paper, printing technology and presentation is much better today, the quality of content does not necessarily follow. Books and magazines are also relatively over-priced.