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Book 1
“A Princess in Tatters”, by Elsie Oxenham is certainly my favourite book. I got it as a present for my 10th birthday. I really loved that book, and read it lots of times but, unfortunately, once I gave the book to a friend and it got lost. The years passed, I grew up, came to live in Canada, but I never forgot my book and often told my family how much I would like to read it again.
Unknown to me, one of my sons had remembered this and the name of the book and decided to see if he could find a copy through the Internet. He was lucky to find one. So, when I opened my Christmas presents, I was, after nearly sixty-five years, once again holding my favourite book. I cried with happiness. Now I keep the book on my bedside table and often reread it.
Book 2
I open my favourite book every day, as it contains so much history, and stories of people and their lives, words of wisdom. This book is like a library — it gives so much information. It contains the most important story of all time. I’m no longer young and I live alone far from my daughter and her children, my grandsons. I’m too old to travel and most of my friends are dead, but I seldom feel lonely because my Bible keeps me company. My book is very special to me. I begin every day with reading it.
Book 3
My husband and I live in the street called Courtney Gate. Once I was going to visit my daughter in Berlin, and wanted a book to read on the plane. As I like animal stories, my eyes fell on “Тhе Animals Came in One by One” by Buster Lloyd Jones, so I bought it, read it and enjoyed it. Some time later I read his second book “Come into My World” and loved it too.
Step 4
Аудиозапись № 26 к упражнению 1
HOW IT ALL BEGAN
Science-fiction, or sci-fi stories appeared in the 19th century with the development of science and technology. One of the fathers of sci-fi literature was Jules Verne, a French writer. At the beginning of his career, Jules Verne wrote stories and newspaper articles and was not very successful. He became famous when in 1863 he started a series of stories about imaginary journeys into the unknown.
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Verne’s journeys took his readers to the North Pole, under the sea, to the centre of the Earth and other worlds. In his book “From the Earth to the Moon” Jules Verne describes a trip around the Moon. His characters only look at the Moon but don’t walk on it.
Another science-fiction writer, Herbert George Wells, an Englishman, actually put his characters on the Moon in his book “The First Men on the Moon”. Wells began his career as a teacher, then wrote for a newspaper and finally became a popular writer. Herbert Wells did not only entertain the reader with his stories, he also asked important questions about people’s life in the future. Wells was the first author to write about machines of war, a kind of atom bomb and many other things that later in the 20th century became very real. He first wrote that the Earth could be visited by life forms which might be violent and cruel to people. Well’s most famous book is probably “The Invisible Man”. Griffin, the main character, makes a scientific experiment because he wants power. As a result he loses his body and his contact with other people.
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