PROGRESS REVIEW O Unit 5 READING O Fiction
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3 Complete the text with the words in
information knowledge point
Brendon Smith discovered reading when he
was on holiday aged fourteen. Finding a copy
for him because before that he had hated
reading. Brendon started to read other books
things. For Brendon it was the incidental
also discovered that reading required him
to use his imagination, which helped him
in books that really helped
power skills world
of The Hobbit was a turning!
VOCABULARY AND LANGUAGE FOCUS
Literary genres and adjectives
1 Reorder the words in brackets to
complete the sentences.
1 It's an
(about
poverty/epic / poem)
2 Dad loves
(involving wealthy families / novels /
nineteenth-century)
3 I'm reading a
(literary / short / told in the third
person / novel)
4 Do you enjoy
.?
(contemporary / stories / detective)
5 He's writing a
(historic / long / play)
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are still really
popular. (romantic / novels / Victorian /
about social injustice)
and soon saw that he was learning new
2
He
to improve his general
This is
develop his brain
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really important as it helped him to have
a better memory and stronger analytical
Another benefit of reading
books is that we learn to concentrate
as we have to forget about the outside
This helps us to concentrate -
in addition, it also helps to reduce stress.
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2 Complete the sentences with the opposite
of the words in brackets.
1 Alice Through the Looking Glass is a very
story. (ordinary)
2 The action is so
I couldn't
keep up with the plot! (slow)
3 This is a
book that will
have you laughing all the way to the
end. (serious)
4 You won't be able to put the book down
because it's so
(dull)
5 It's a
book written from a
child's point of view. (unbelievable)
6 Glasgow Girls is a brilliant and
play that was made into a
film. (mindless)
LANGUAGE FOCUS Past simple or
past continuous
4 Complete the sentences so they are
true for you. Use the past simple or past
continuous.
1 Yesterday afternoon, while my mum
2 Last month, our class
3 When I got home last night,
Glowup
4 All day long, the wind
