Section A. Books and Authors
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Section B1. Choosing a Book
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a) Ann doesnt share her Aunt Prudies taste in books. She might use the following expressions: What rubbish! How can one read such books? Shocking! ( !) A big load of nothing! ( !) Ive had enough of these! ( , !) None of the sort of books I like. She must be dotty! ( , !) Boring rubbish, the whole lot of it!
b) Ann seems to share her Aunt Prudies taste in books. She might use the following expressions: Its the real thing! It rings a bell.
Section B2.The Writer of This Poem Is as Clever as...
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2. wanna be want to be, Yippee ypa.
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Section . Before They Were Famous
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3) 2, . . Lucky Break: At the age of twenty-four, he simply sat down and wrote The Pickwick Papers which became an immediate bestseller. ( ). It was not as simple as that.
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5.2) In this century (it was not always so in the last one), just about... . ., . . it was not always in the last century, but still, many writers started in some other job a schoolteacher, or a governess, as Ch. Bront did.
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| slipped in | crept in | came in (entered) |
| a bookcase | bookshelves | a bookcase |
| possessed myself of a volume | took possession of a book | took a book |
| taking care that it should be one stored with pictures | making sure that it should be one full of pictures | trying to find the book with pictures |
| mounted into... and sat cross-legged | climbed on to... and sat cross-legged | sat on the window seat |
| having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close I was shrined in double retirement | having drawn the red curtain I felt doubly sheltered | drew the curtains and felt safe |
| profoundly interesting | deeply interesting | very interesting |
| the tales narrated | the stories began (to narrate) | the stories told |
| chanced to be in good humour | happened to be in a good temper | was in a good temper |
| fed our eager attention with passages of love and adventure taken from old fairy tales and older ballads | holding (held) our eager attention with memories of love and adventure taken from old songs and stories | telling us stories about love and adventures and we listened to her with great interest |
| with Bewick on my knee, I was happy | with the book on my knee I was happy | I was reading the book and was happy |
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