Reading a book/ Grade 8

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Culture and me II Grade 8

READING A BOOK

INDEX

Types of books 01

Adjectives to describe books 02

Reading challenge 03

Book review 04

Vocabulary bankGrammar bank

01

Types of books

to learn new vocabulary

to describe a book

How many different kinds of book can you think of?

travel guide novel encyclopedia paper back atlas dictionary instruction manual e-book comic fiction printed autobiography history poetry address book hardback

Adjectives for describing books

amusing boring brilliant captivating confusing deep easy-to-read enjoyable funny hilarious entertaining hard-to-read inaccurate informative predictable silly uninformative well-written

Think about a book you have read recently. Give one positive sentence and one negative sentence about it

Why Do People Read?

Have you ever tried to read a book in English?

https://english-e-reader.net/

Reading challenge

03

a book review

I know how to write

The teacher has asked you to read a book in English and to present it to the class.

You should tell:

why reading in English is a good idea

what kind of book you'd like to read

what to do with unknown words

what you can learn from books

how you can present a book

a book review

I know how to write

Choose 3 book reviews, compare them and make a reminder for writing a book review

The amount of points should add up to 6 points. The activities must be done correctly in order to receive the points

Make a list of 10 new words you learned and their translations

Write an acrostic poem

What changes would you make to turn the bad character into the hero?

Explain why a character acted the way the did

Write an advert to sell a product from a book

List 5 strengths and 5 weaknesses of the main character

Rewrite the ending changing it from happy to sad or vice versa

Write 5 true and 5 false statements about a book

Write 3 question you have after reading

Book Review Rubric

Book Review

book review by 9-year-old MissObservation

A Book Review

A Book You Recently Read

Book Report Presentation

Examples of a book review

Vocabulary bank

Grammar bank

Thesaurus.com

Dictionary.com

Positive: amusing, captivating, funny, hilarious, deep, informative, enjoyable, brilliant, easy-to-read, entertaining, well-written Negative: boring, confusing, uninformative, silly, hard-to-read, predictable, inaccurate