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The Benefits of Reading

Reflection

A bookworm is a person who reads a lot. Are you a bookworm? Do you think reading has been beneficial for you?

Video Listening: Why should we read more?

Watch the video Why you should read books and write down the benefits of reading that are mentioned. Use that information to design an infographic in the F2 classroom. Later we will use it for a mediation activity.

Better than yesterday. Why you should read books. YouTube

Listening Comprehension: Fill in the blanks

Watch the video again and fill in the missing words.

Example: The narrator wonders why he should BOTHER reading a book when he can watch a video summary of it.
  1. Reading is to the what exercise is to the .
  2. Reading improves your and concentration.
  3. Nowadays people in a single 5-minute span can be doing the following: 
    1. working on a
    2. checking e-mails
    3. with a couple of people
    4. using their
  4. When you read a book the rest of the is closed off.
  5. Reading a book is also considered a great technique.
  6. Research done in 2009 showed that reading is more effective to overcome stress than to music.
  7. Also, scientific research has shown that reading makes you .
  8. Reading is said to be as healthy as a morning .

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Reading Comprehension: Opening lines

The first lines of a book can draw a reader in. In fact, the first line can sometimes become as popular as the novel itself. Here are some of the most famous opening lines of all times.

Click on the different headings to read the first lines and write down the number next to the book they belong to.

Text 1

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”.

Text 2

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”.

Text 3

“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.” 

Text 4

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

Text 5

"We slept in what had once been the gymnasium".

Text 6

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

Text 7

“It was a pleasure to burn.”

Text 8

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”

Text 9

“When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”

  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Text
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling. Text
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Text
  • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Text
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Text 4
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Text
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Text
  • Anna Karennina by Leo Tolstoy. Text
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Text

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