Reading for pleasure Types of fiction

1.

th
The 18
of January
Module 5. Reading for pleasure
Types of fiction

2.

Lesson objectives
Today you will be able to:
• read and listen for specific information, detail
and mail idea;
• express an opinion;
• identify the pictures from film adaptations;
• label the pictures according to the text;
• ask and answer the questions according to the
text.

3.

Brainstorm the ideas
Why do we need to read?
Discuss the question and make some notes with
your partner
Ex 1, page 53

4.

Read the definitions and fill in the correct words
Fiction - the type of ____ or story that is written
about imaginary ____ and events and not based on
___ people and facts.
Literary genre – is a particular style or type of
writing.
• Fantasy
• Romance
• Comedy
• Horror
• Crime
• Science
fiction

5.

Read the extracts. What kind of books
do you think they come from? Discuss
with your partner
Page 53
a) Fantasy
b) Romance
c) Comedy
d) Horror
e) Crime
f) Science fiction
Text 1
Text 2
Text 3
*Which places inspired each author to write their novels?

6.

Types of fiction
Page 53
• Eternal life – вечная
жизнь
• Preserve – сохранить
• Empty – пустой
• Narrator – рассказчик
• Chilling story – жуткая
история
• Eerie – мрачный
• Countryside – деревня
• Enormous – огромный
• Boarder - граница
• Desolate - пустынный

7.

Post – reading
Complete the phrases:
Text 1
1) Underground …..
2) Narrator’s opinion …
3) Sound wonderful …
Text 3
1) Epic …..
2) Enormous …
3) Desolate …
Text 2
1) Chilling …..
2) Evil …
3) Sound wonderful …
Answer the questions based on the texts
1) What is Zero K by Don Dellio about?
2) What do people do to stop themselves from dying?
3) When Bram Stoker was inspired to write his book?
4) What gave him so many ideas?
5) What The Lord of the Rings is about?
6) What did Tolkien use as a basis for his creation?

8.

Classify the phrases according to the texts
Text 1
Text 2
Text 3
Eternal life, desolate land, Ural
Mountains, stormy weather, new
technology, evil vampire, fictional
land, stop from dying, destroy the
forces of evil, green landscape

9.

Complete the spidergram
Write your associations
books

10.

Lesson 2. The Canterville Ghost
Read the biography to find out
(page 54)
What type of literature did Oscar Wilde write?
What type of fiction is The Canterville Ghost?
Playwright – драматург
Nobleman - дворянин
Haunted - преследуемый
Who was Oscar Wilde?
What did he produce during his life?
What was his first story?
What is the story about?

11.

Clauses of purpose

12.

• I know ….
• I understood …
• I can …
• It was difficult for
me to ….
• I need …