grade 12 - unit 11- Reading

Textbook Comic book Detective story Guidebook workbook Short story Unit 11: Books – Listening 5 4... Listen to a woman talking about the book that she has just read and do the tasks th

Look at all the pictures and match them with the correct kind of books.

Textbook

Comic book

Detective

story

Guidebook

workbook

Short story

Unit 11: Books – Listening

5 4

- Incredible (adj)

- Wilderness (n)

- Fascinating

(adj)

- Unnoticed (adj)

- Journey (n)

- Personality (n)

- Survive (v)

- Reunite (v)

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Unit 11: Books – Listening Vocabulary:

Listen to a woman talking

about the book that she has just read and do the tasks

that follow.

TASK 1: Listen and circle the best

answer

TASK 1: Listen and choose the best

answer

1 The title of the book is………

A Canadian Wilderness.

B The Incredible Journey.

C Sheila Burnford.

2 The book is about………

A a Canadian family

B three Canadian friends

C three animal friends

3 Where does the Canadian family go?

A To visit a friend who lives 300 miles away.

B To England.

C To the Canadian wilderness.

B

C

B

TASK 1: Listen and

choose the best answer

4 Why do the animals leave the friend’s

house?

A They want to find their owners.

B They want to know how to survive life in

the wilderness.

C They were not well treated by the friend.

5 What is the central theme of the book?

A How the animals can survive life in the

wilderness in order to get home.

B How to resolve an animal problem.

C How to take care of other people.

A

A

Task 2: Fill in the gaps in the passage

Each animal has a distinct personality, but they care for one another almost as if they were a (1)

……… The most impressive of them is the old dog The journey was the most difficult for him, but amazingly he found the (2)…………

………to make it

The author didn’t try to turn the animals into

people, speaking and acting like (3)…………

Instead, she was faithful to her characters as

animals and showed us their (4)………though animal eyes That made the book interesting

and unbelievable

I would recommend the book to anyone who likes animals I think that anyone who has ever had a (5)……… … or wanted one would enjoy it

The answer:

1 family

2 strength

3 humans

4 journey

5 pet

Unit 11: Books – Listening – Task 2

Task 2: Listen and fill in the gaps.

III After you read :

Decide whether the following

statements are true (T) or false (F).

1 The woman recently read a book whose title is “The Incredible

Journey”.

2 The book is about three

Canadian friends.

3.The Canadian family go to the

Canadian wilderness.

5 The central theme of the book

is “ how to resolve an animal

problem ”.

4 The animals leave the friend ’s

house because they want to find

their owners.

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-Topic: “ Why do you read books ? ”

Suggested ideas:

- To get information and a better understanding of what we learn.

-To widen and improve our knowledge.

- To raise our awareness of the good things to do and the bad things to avoid.

- To relax our mind.

(Group work)

HOMEWOR K

• Write a short

paragraph about this

book.