2. READING

3. Describe your favourite book scene
(mention: where it is, when it takes place,
who the characters are, what they are doing and why they are doing it).

4. What is the saddest / funniest / strangest / etc
What is the saddest / funniest / strangest / etc. book you have ever read?

5. What is your favourite genre?
Which ones don’t you like?

6. Do you prefer paper
books or ebooks?
Do you listen to music while you are reading?
What is your favourite time of day for reading?
What is your favourite place to read?

7. Do you have
a favourite author?
If you could ask them a question,
what would it be?

8. “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons
can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what
you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

9. Do you highlight passages you like while reading?
What's your favourite book quote?

10. Do you think the internet will eventually
make books obsolete?

11. Let’s create a story!

12. Slide 8: have sts choose one of the quotes to discuss
Slide 8: have sts choose one of the quotes to discuss. If time allows, ask sts to choose a second quote.
Slide 11: organise sts in a circle. Begin the story yourself by saying one of the starters below. The student on your left is supposed to continue the story by adding one sentence. The activity continues until it reaches the last student, who must conclude the story in one sentence. You may create your own starters or allow sts to come up with their own. Round off by asking sts to say which story they liked best and why.
Starters:
I hid behind a car, trying not to make a sound.
At first, I thought it was the cat.
I could see there was doubt in her face.
One day, a UFO landed in my garden.
I opened the suitcase and found a ​mirror, a compass, and a map .