Reading is in present a favourite leisure time activity

The book – the friend of people

I went to…..
Guruh: BIAS 114
Bajardi: Kamolov Abror
Tekshirdi:

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:

Textbooks – educational 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)