Reading is in present a favourite leisure time activity


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The book – the friend of people


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Guruh: BIAS 114
Bajardi: Kamolov Abror
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Reading is in present a favourite leisure time activity

  • Reading is closely connected with literacy and education. From the very beginning people wanted to be informed as well as they wanted to keep knowledge for other generations.
  • Firstly, they used hard materials like
  • stone tables, later they started to use silk, leaves or papyrus. As the paper was invented, people start to write longer texts and created the first books called manuscripts – the hand written books. They used ink and goose feather for writing.

Why do people read?

  • For pleasure and entertainment
  • Education and learning
  • To get information
  • Advice

Popularity of reading

  • In the past reading used to be more popular, nowadays it is still a popular activity among a group of people, but majority of people prefer reading newspapers or magazines to reading books
  • Reading books is on decline from many reasons:
  • - books are rather expensive

    - reading books is time consuming

    - many books/novels have been filmed so people rather watch films than read books

    - in particular young people don´t like reading books, it´s boring, they fancy doing other activities

Literature

  • Can be divided into 2 categories: non-fiction and fiction literature.
  • Non-fiction books are read for information.There are:
  • Textbookseducational books

    Encyclopaedias – large books or set of books with facts about different subjects

    Dictionaries – books that tell us the meaning of words by translating or explaining them

    Biographies, autobiographies, memoirs – tell us about the life of famous personalities

    Self help books – give us advice in various fields (e.g. medicine or DIY=do it yourself books)


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