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Task Four (30 minutes)
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a The text is the home page of a website. It is designed to introduce and promote the
organisation Bookcrossing. Identify five features of the text that are characteristic of its genre.
Give one example of each feature you identify. Identify no more than one feature of layout.
b Look at the following extracts from the text.
Comment on the form and meaning/use of the words in bold as they are used in the text.
Do not write about the lexical meaning of read (i.e. to decode written text).
x our unique method of recycling reads (line 9)
x a new reader (line 13)
x Reading becomes an adventure (line 20)
x to be picked up and read by others (lines 40-41)
c Comment on the use of relative clauses and relative pronouns in the following extracts.
x Bookcrossing, where 791,837 people in over 130 countries come to share their passion
for books (lines 1-2)
x A book registered on BookCrossing is ready for adventure. (line 10)
x …by others, who then do likewise. (lines 41-42)
d Look at the following extracts from the text.
x Used Books (title bar)
x Found a BookCrossing book? (lines 24-25)
x with like-minded people (line 35)
x as it is passed on (lines 14-15)
i. Comment on the form and meaning/use of the words in bold.
ii. What problems of pronunciation might learners have with the following?
x Used books
x as it is passed on
Write your answer in your answer booklet.
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BookCrossing – The World’s Biggest Free Book Club – Catch and Release Used Books
http://www.bookcrossing.com/
Found a BookCrossing
25 book?
Welcome to BookCrossing, where 791,837 people in over Enter the BCID# here
130 countries come to share their passion for books with
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the world. Where books take on a life of their own. How?
It’s easy. Go!
5 Simply click on the link below and sign up for free in less
than 1 minute – that’s it!
Member comments:
BookCrossing is earth-friendly, and gives you a way to share your books,
clear your shelves, and conserve precious resources at the same time.
Through our own unique method of recycling reads, BookCrossers give life to All my life I have been a lonely
10 books. A book registered on BookCrossing is ready for adventure. 30 reader, constantly immersed in
books. Bookcrossing has widened
my horizons, it is so exciting to be
Leave it on a park bench, a coffee shop, at a hotel on vacation. Share it able to share one’s books, one’s
with a friend or tuck it into a bookshelf at the gym - anywhere it might thoughts and cares, even recipes,
find a new reader! What happens next is up to fate, and we never know 35 with like-minded people. The site
where our books might travel. Track the book’s journey around the world as has enormous potential for fostering
15 it is passed on from person to person. peace and understanding
Join hundreds of thousands of active BookCrossers daily in our many forums Bookcrossing:
to discuss your favorite authors, characters and books in every genre
throughout history right up through current releases.
Sign up >> n. the practice of leaving a
Join BookCrossing. Help make the world a library and 40 book in a public place to be
20 share the joy of literacy. Reading becomes an adventure when picked up and read by others,
who then do likewise.
you bookcross.
(added to the Concise Oxford English
Dictionary in August 2004)
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