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Activities to do with books

Literature

More activities to improve your writing skills.....

CREATIVE WRITING

1. Write any kind of poem about your book.
   
2. Write a letter to a friend describing this book you are going to send him.
   
3. Write a different ending for your book.
   
4. Keep a journal as you read your book: your reactions, thoughts, feelings.
   
5. Write a five-line "easy" poem about your book: a noun, then two adjectives, then three verbs, then a thought about the noun, and finally a synonym for the noun.
   
6. Write two articles for a newspaper published at the time of or in the country of your book.
   
7. Write an obituary for one character.
   
8. Write a diary for your favourite character.
   

VOCABULARY

1. Make a small dictionary (at least twenty-five words) for the subject of your book.
   
2. List fifteen interesting words from your book and tell why each is interesting.
   
3. List new words learned from your book: Define them and give the sentences in which you found them.
   
4. Choose some of the following words and explain how each applies to your book: stupendous, exciting, breathtaking, horrendous, fabulous, etc. 
   

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Six Actions to Save the Planet

I'm publishing the link to this interesting article and a summary of simple actions anyone can put into practice. Litter and trash are a worldwide problem and we should be conscious about it. 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/06/plastic-planet-solutions-waste-pollution/?utm_source=ngp&utm_medium=crm email&utm_content=plastics_20180516&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_rd=14081008235

Six Things You Can Do (and Feel No Pain)

1. Give up plastic bags. Take your own reusable ones to the store. A trillion plastic shopping bags are used worldwide every year, and 100 billion in the United States alone—that’s almost one per American per day. The average Dane, in contrast, goes through four single-use bags per year. Denmark passed the first bag tax in 1993.

2. Skip straws. Unless you have medical needs, and even then you could use paper ones. Americans toss 500 million plastic straws every day, or about 1.5 per person.

3. Pass up plastic bottles. Invest in a refillable water bottle. Some come with filters if you’re worried about water quality. A handful of cities, including Bundanoon, Australia, and San Francisco, have banned or partially banned bottled water. But around the world, nearly a million plastic beverage bottles are sold every minute.

4. Avoid plastic packaging. Buy bar soap instead of liquid. Buy in bulk. Avoid produce sheathed in plastic. And while you’re at it, give up plastic plates and cups. The French are (partially) banning the stuff.

5. Recycle what you can. Even in rich countries, recycling rates are low. Globally, 18 percent of all plastic is recycled. Europe manages 30 percent, China 25—the United States only 9.

6. Don’t litter. The Ocean Conservancy has run beach cleanups for 30 years. Of the top 10 types of trash they find, the only nonplastic item is glass bottles. Worldwide, 73 percent of beach litter is plastic: cigarette butts (the filters), bottles and caps, food wrappers, grocery bags, polystyrene containers. In 2016 the conservancy collected 9,200 tons of trash in 112 countries—around a thousandth of what enters the ocean each year.

Activities to do with books

Literature

Here we have more activities to enjoy the oral skills with our students.

SPEAKING

1. Deliver a sales talk for your book.
   
2. Make a tape about your book.
   
3. Write ten discussion questions for your book.
   

DRAMA

     1. Dramatize your favourite incident. 
     2. As a famous movie star, you have been asked to play a character: explain your answer.
     3. Write a TV commercial for your book.
     4. Make a TV script for one scene of your book.
     5. Play "What's My Line" with one character: write out questions to portray him.
     6. As a movie producer, explain why you will or will not make your book into a movie.
     7. Explain how your book could be make into a movie: clothes, setting, cars, props, etc. 

Prepositions

Activities to do with books

Literature

Enjoy the stories while you are reading....

LITERARY QUALITIES

1. Quote passages of good description and good dialogue and explain them.
   
2. Find and write down twenty-five similes and metaphors.
   
3. Think about who the narrator is: then write one scene from the point of view of another character and explain the switch. 
   

Modals

Activities to do with books

Literature

More awesome activities to do with our students.

PRESENTING

• Design a book cover for your book.
• Draw a comic strip of your book.
• Draw a portrait of your favourite character and explain something about it.
• Make any kind of illustration for your book (drawing, chart, graph) and explain it.
• Cut words or pictures from the newspaper to make a collage or ad for your book.
• Make a "WANTED" poster for the main character.
• Make a "thumbprint" book about your book (the figures come from thumbs dipped in paint" and write captions for these illustrations.
• Make a bulletin board about your book.
• Create a poster for your book.
• Write an ad for your book.
• Make a bookmark for your book.
• Collect pictures that go with your book and describe each.
• Write out your title decoratively and for each letter write a phrase about the book.

English Idioms

Activities to do with books

Literature

More activities to work with....

COMPARISONS

1. Compare your book with another book you've read.
   
2. Describe an experience you've had that was like the experience of a character.
   
3. Compare your book with a movie or TV show of the same kind.
   

FUN

1. Defend: This book should be read by everyone who hates reading.
   
2. Defend: This book should never be spoiled by a teacher requiring a book report.
   
3. Free choice: Do anything you want in connection with your book.
   
4. How many reasons can you think of to take your book to an isolated Antarctica camp?
   
5. Describe a field trip you would like to take because of your book.
   
6. Write one page on this: Why ...... should not read this book.
   
7. Make a crossword puzzle from your book. 
   

Activities to do with books

Literature 

Here you will find a lot of activities to deal with any book or story. 

From the point of view of:

THE PAST

• Tell what you think happened before the story began.
• Imagine that you're an eighteenth century student, How would you react to your book? 
• If your story took place one hundred years earlier, how would your main character act? 
• If your main character is from the past, how would he act if the book took place today?

THE FUTURE

• If you were a man from Mars, how would you react to your book?
• Describe what you think happened to the main character after the book ended.
• Explain why your book should be included in a capsule to be dug up in one hundred years. Make a horoscope for the main character explaining his sign and his future.