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New Opportunities Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book (Opportunities) (PDFDrive) (Перенесено) 9

The document provides instructions for writing a book review in four stages: choosing a book, making notes on its strong and weak points, writing the review in four paragraphs, and checking it for mistakes. It also includes a listening exercise about a comedy sketch involving a police officer finding a bomb and calling his lieutenant for help defusing it.

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New Opportunities Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book (Opportunities) (PDFDrive) (Перенесено) 9

The document provides instructions for writing a book review in four stages: choosing a book, making notes on its strong and weak points, writing the review in four paragraphs, and checking it for mistakes. It also includes a listening exercise about a comedy sketch involving a police officer finding a bomb and calling his lieutenant for help defusing it.

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4 Book Review Listening

Write a book review. Follow the stages. Before you start


Writing help 2, page 138
Match the words ( 1 - 6 ) with their meanings ( a - f ) .
Stage 1 1 shell a a book of instructions
Decide what book you are going to 2 tick b a bomb or explosive
write about. Here are some suggestions. 3 manual c a tool used to put in or take out screws
a book originally written in your 4 screwdriver d metal cable used for electrical connections
language that you would like to 5 coin e to make a noise like a watch or clock
recommend to an English reader 6 wire f a piece of money made of metal
a book that young people should
read Which word can also mean 'the hard covering of a sea animal' - the
a book that has influenced your life sort of thing you find on the beach?
a book that can teach the reader
important information
An American Comedian
Think about the book's strong and weak
Listen to a comedy sketch and answer the questions.
points. Is it educational, entertaining,
motivating? Is it sometimes slow or
Listen and choose the best answer for the questions, a, b or c.
difficult to understand?
When police officer Willard telephones to say that he has found a bomb,
Stage 2 the lieutenant
Use the headings in Exercise 1 on a is frightened, b misunderstands him. c ignores him.
page 22 to make notes about the book.
When the lieutenant tells Willard the bomb is 'live', Willard
a hangs up. b panics, c laughs.
Stage 3
Write your review in four paragraphs, When Willard asks the lieutenant to come down, the lieutenant
like the text about Billy Liar. a makes an excuse not to leave the office,
b offers to bring the manual down,
c asks Willard to bring the bomb to the office.
Stage 4
Willard opens the bomb with
Check your review for mistakes. a a screwdriver, b a plate, c a coin.

When Willard turns the wheel, the bomb


Talkback
a ticks more slowly, b stops ticking,
In groups, read each others' reviews.
c ticks faster.
Choose the most interesting one and
tell the class. The lieutenant can't speak to the small
boy because
a the bomb explodes, b the boy runs away,
c it's too noisy.

The lieutenant is relieved in the end


because the bomb
a was only a toy.
b exploded without causing damage,
c is the coastguard's responsibility.

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