The World of Publications (vocabulary)

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1) Match the pictures to 12 words from the box.

magazine / autobiography / play / atlas / comic /
newspaper / dictionary / manual / cookbook / novel /
textbook / encyclopedia / grammar book /
guidebook / short stories / thesaurus / biography /
9 1 1 1
0 1 2
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1________________ 2_______________ 3________________ 2
4________________ 5_______________ 6________________ 2
2
3) Which type of publication is each person
7________________ 8_______________ 9________________
writing about?
10_______________ 11_______________12________________

Tom: this book contains instructions for doing

2) Which publication from ex.1 would you read if you something, especially for operating a machine.
wanted to: 1_____________________________________

1. read a short fictional book? _____________________

2. look up a word you don’t understand? Ann: It really does contain a huge amount of
_____________________________________________ information on every subject that you can
3. learn how your new dishwasher works? imagine. 2 _____________________________
_____________________________________________
4. read the story of a person’s life, written by that
person? ________________________________________
John: This book is for travellers or tourists as that
5. read a long-written story about imaginary or partly provides information about a place or a subject.
imaginary characters and events? __________________ 3___________________________________________
__
6. find out which countries are next to Chile? _________
7. find information about deserts? ___________________
8. find out how to cook a delicious cake? _____________ Sarah: I like to read this large thin book with a
paper cover, containing reports, photographs, stories
9. prepare for a Maths exam? _____________________ etc. usually published once a month or once a week
4_______________________________________
10. learn the rules of the French language?
_____________________________________________
11. find different words with the same meaning?
4)_____________________________________________
Match the correct word in each pair given in the box to the sentences.

12.
1. read stories
I want withacross
to drive lots ofPoland
picturesand
andI need
not many Jeremy:
to know which roads I’ve_______________________
to take. learnt some new things about
words?_________________________________________ Shakespeare’s life from this book. The author has
2. ‘What’s another word for ‘angry’?’ ‘Here, look in the __________________.’
done a tremendous job. 5______________________
13. read about what is happening in the world?
3. ____________________________________________
They give away free ____________________________ in the station. Peter likes
reading the headlines on the train. guidebook / atlas

4. Katya needs to look up the conditional clauses in English so that she can do her newspaper / magazine
homework. __________________
thesaurus / dictionary
5. Mary doesn’t often watch films, but she loves fiction, so she reads a lot of
__________________________ short story / novel
6. I can’t find a book containing information and practical instructions on how to
fix my bike. ________________ textbook / grammar book
7. Mark is 4 years old. His favourite books are the ones containing stories told cookbook / manual
mainly in pictures. ____________________
magazine / comic
5) Books and text. Complete the sentences. Use the words from the box.
author
1. The edge of a book where all the pages are fixed together. _________________
back / front cover
2. A number of other details will be discussed in the following ________________. epilogue
3. Is it a__________________________ or a ___________________________back? hardback
4. Mrs. Brown was the editor and __________________of a small-town newspaper. paperback
5. How many website addresses are on the ____________________________cover? spine
6. What is the ___________________________ of his new book? page number
7. How many _________________________________________ are there? publisher
8. Nobel Prize winning ______________________, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, was born contents page
in 1918. chapter
9. When Stephenie Meyer finished the final chapter of her first novel Twilight she title
wrote an ______________________.

6) Complete the book-related words. Then use them to complete the sentences.

c___t__ p___ c _ _ _ _c _ _ __t____g____ s____ e_ _ _ _ g _ e h___в___

1. This book was published in ______________________ last year. It is more expensive, but it lasts longer.
2. I don’t like this book. I only read three ____________________ of it and then I stopped. It was so boring.
3. There are two main __________________________________ in the story: a mother and her son.
4. A more detailed account of the incident is given in her _____________________________________.
5. The _______________ of a book is visible when it is in a row on a shelf. It usually shows the book’s title.
6. At the end of the play, the actor presented a(n) _______________________ to summarize the tale.
7. Jane loved that novel because the _____________________ was so gripping. She couldn’t stop reading it.

GLOSSARY
magazine = časopis play = hra
autobiography = autobiografie (o životě atlas = atlas
autora) comic = komiks
newspaper = noviny back / front cover = zadní/přední obal
dictionary = slovník knihy
manual = manual, příručka epilogue = epilog (závěr díla)
cookbook = kuchařka hardback = pevná vazba (tvrdý obal
novel = novela, román knihy)
textbook = učebnice paperback = měkká vazba (měkký - dá se
encyclopedia = encyklopedie (naučný ohnout)
slovník) spine = hřbet (část držící stránky
grammar book = učebnice gramatiky pohromadě)
guidebook = průvodce (cestovní příručka) page number = číslo strany
publisher = vydavatel
contents page = strana s obsahem
chapter = kapitola
title = titul, název knihy

short stories = povídky (krátké příběhy)

thesaurus = lexikon (výkladový, naučný
slovník)
biography = životopis
author = autor