Упр.9 Unit 2 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ English Михеева 9 класс
9 Read the text and choose the right items to complete the sentences after it. In this article Jacqueline Wilson, a children’s author, writes about love of reading and recommends some of her favourite books.
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9 Read the text and choose the right items to complete the sentences after it.
In this article Jacqueline Wilson, a children’s author, writes about love of reading and recommends some of her favourite books.
Like most children’s authors, I shall be very busy during Children’s Book Week going into schools and libraries up and down the country to talk about my books. I like primary schools the most. I talk for about 40 minutes and then ask the children if they’ve got any questions. This is always the fun part. The questions aren’t always connected with my books. Children of-
ten ignore rny wrinkles and grey hair and see me simply as a withered ten-year-old. “Have you got any brothers or sisters?” and “What football team do you support?” and once, very sweetly, “How late are you allowed to stay up at night?” Therefore I know that when children ask me “What are your favourite books?” they don’t expect me to start talking about grownup literature. They want to know what my favourite children’s books are.
It is always hard work choosing. I sometimes talk about the books I loved long ago when I was a child, but that isn’t always useful or relevant for today’s children. My favourite books then were “Nancy and Plum” by Betty Macdonald, a lovely story about two spirited sisters who run away from their orphanage, and “Adventures with Rosalind” by Charlotte Austen, a haunting fantasy about a lonely boy on a long journey through different lands across seven seas. Nobody else has ever heard of them and they are long out of print. I do mention Noel Streatfield, especially “Ballet Shoes” but that’s a very girly choice.
Here I’d like to stress the importance of reading aloud. I think this is the best, easiest and most enjoyable way of getting a child to love books for life. I don’t just mean reading books to babies and toddlers, I mean going on reading aloud long after children can read for themselves. I wish there could be more reading aloud in our schools. That story session on Friday afternoon was the lesson we all loved most back in those long-ago schooldays.
I particularly wish there could be more reading aloud at home. Story tapes are wonderful, especially in cars, but there’s nothing like a grown-up reading or telling a story directly to a child. My all-time favourite picture book to read aloud is “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak, with its poetic text of 338 words and wonderfully imaginative illustrations. It never fails to intrigue or delight any undersevens. The Mary Poppins books are good to read to seven or nine-year-olds. Each chapter is a story in itself, perfect for bedtime reading. Most of Edith Nesbit’s books still sound very fresh and funny, a treat to read aloud to under-lls. Girls should enjoy “Little Women”, “A Little Princess”, “What Katy Did” and “Black Beauty” read aloud, and boys might listen to “Treasure Island or “Tom Sawyer”. There are also very good contemporary books that will be the classics of the future. Philip Pullman’s “Clockwork or All Wound Up” is superb for reading aloud, a perfectly constructed gothic fairytale. And there are always the Harry Potter books...
1) Jacqueline Wilson_professionally.
a) writes criticism on children’s books
b) writes books for kids
c) gives public readings of children’s books
2) Primary school children often_
a) ask Ms Wilson silly questions
b) discuss different problems with Ms Wilson
c) forget Ms Wilson’s age
3) Children’s books of long ago_
a) were much better than modern books
b) are hardly known to modern children
c) were very hard to choose
4) In “Adventures with Rosalind” the main character_
a) doesn’t stay in one and the same place
b) is a lonely sailor
c) goes around the world
5) The book “Ballet Shoes”_-
a) suits girls rather than boys
b) suits boys rather than girls
c) suits both boys and girls
6) Ms Wilson believes that books should be read to_
a) very young children
b) teenage children
c) younger and older children
7) When Ms Wilson was a schoolgirl, she and her classmates
a) read a lot of children’s books
b) listened to their teacher reading aloud to them
c) read aloud to each other
8) Ms Wilson names a number of children’s books that are
a) usually read by children
b) good for reading aloud to children
c) often read aloud to children