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This document provides information about surveying a book, including its various components. [1] The back cover typically includes a blurb that provides a brief description of the book. [2] The preface is written by the author to explain why they wrote the book, while the introduction provides a brief overview of the book's content. [3] Other sections covered include publishing details, acknowledgments, contents, illustrations, glossary, index, appendix, references, and title page.

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Reading Handouts Unit 1

This document provides information about surveying a book, including its various components. [1] The back cover typically includes a blurb that provides a brief description of the book. [2] The preface is written by the author to explain why they wrote the book, while the introduction provides a brief overview of the book's content. [3] Other sections covered include publishing details, acknowledgments, contents, illustrations, glossary, index, appendix, references, and title page.

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Reading Worksheet 1.

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SURVEYING A BOOK

1.) Apart from the author’s name and the title of the book, what is the most
significant component included in the ‘Back cover’?

Blurb

2.) What is the difference between the ‘Preface’ and the ‘Introduction’?

Preface is written by the author that why he wrote this book.

Introduction also written by the author but it is a breaf intro about the
book(content)

3.) a.) Who would write a ‘Foreword’ to a book?

An experts other than the author

b.) What are the objectives of a ‘Foreword’?

it establishes your credibility as an author

4.) What are the components of ‘Publishing Details’?

Name of the publishing company

Logo of the publishing company

Address

5.) What do you expect to find in an ‘Acknowledgement’?

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Thanking to the people who helped to the author

6.) What are the parts included in ‘Contents’?

Chapters,page numbers,chapter numbers

7.) Mention other features that can be included as ‘Illustrations’?

Images,arts,charts

8.) What is the difference between ‘Glossary’ and ‘Index’?

Glossary is the personal dictionary to the readers and the index is a road map .

9.) What is the common feature of the ‘Glossary’ and the ‘Index’?

The both glossary and the index are in the alphabetical oder

10.) What is the purpose of ‘Appendix’?

To find any suplementary information about the title and other references.

11.) If you want to know the sources used by the author, where would you refer
to?

References/bigliography

12.) What are the other information that can be found on the ‘Title Page’?

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Title of the book

Name of the author and publishers name

13.) If you want to know a brief description of the book or what the book deals
with, where would you refer to?

blurb

1. WORKSHEET 1.2
SCANNING A PART OF A TEXT
First read the questions and then locate the answers from the following paragraph.

a. Who belongs to ‘the English speech community’?


anyone who speaks English

b. Into which two groups can speakers of English be classified?


: one in which the speakers use English as their native language, the other is which the
speakers learn English as a second language

c. Give two reasons why people learn English as a second language.


education, commerce, and so on.

d. Name two countries where English is


i.) a native language - England, Canada, the United States, Australia and New
Zealand
ii.) a second language - India, Kenya, the Philippines and Singapore.

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e. What are the two reasons for which English is used as the language of aviation and

air traffic?

f. What evidence is there which shows that English is an important language for
international diplomacy?

g. Name two academic purposes for which English is used.

h. Where did the article appear?

The importance of English

We may say that anyone who speaks English belongs to the English speech community.
We can classify the speakers into two groups: one in which the speakers use English as
their native language, the other in which the speakers learn English as a second language
for the purposes of education, commerce, and so on. The former group would obviously
include people in England, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. The
latter group would include, among many others, English speakers in India, Kenya, the
Philippines and Singapore. However, not all these countries use English for the same
purpose or to the same extent. English serves as a functional alternative language in
several areas of public activity for the many nations of the world which use it as an
international second language. Because of its widespread use geographically, and because
of the large number of people who speak it, it has been adopted as the language of
aviation and air traffic. The acceptance of English as a language of international
diplomacy is evidenced by its adoption as one of the official languages of the United
Nations. English is also the language of the majority of research and published materials

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in the world so that education, especially specialized higher education, has come to rely
very heavily on an understanding of English.

“English Language Exercises” by K. Oehlers and V. Alexander. (P. 39)

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