Talking_point 视听说 Book 4 Unit 2 A Good Read 知识介绍.ppt

1 Work in pairs and match the book covers with their back cover descriptions. 1 Alain de Botton: Essays in Love Clues: The description makes it clear that this is a serious love affair so it seems to match the book cover and title of Essays in Love. Example Answers 1 Work in pairs and match the book covers with their back cover descriptions. 2 Peter Catterdale (ed): The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years Clues: The description makes it clear that the book is a political diary by Harold Macmillan, a Cabinet Minister – you don’t have to know that he was Cabinet Minister and later Prime Minister of Britain to match this with the name Macmillan on the cover and the subtitle of The Cabinet Years. 1 Work in pairs and match the book covers with their back cover descriptions. 3 Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Clues: The description is about romance but it is written in a comic way, so this is not serious romance … this sounds like the sequel to Bridget Jones’s Diary, which may be familiar from the film. 1 Work in pairs and match the book covers with their back cover descriptions. 4 Marc Blake: My Computer Hates Me Clues: The description is clearly about computers and humour, while the book cover shows a computer cartoon drawing like an octopus. 1 Work in pairs and match the book covers with their back cover descriptions. 5 Alexander Frater: Beyond the Blue Horizon Clues: The description shows that the book is about an airline called Imperial Airways Eastbound Empire which sounds like an old name, maybe the 1930s and the book cover shows a 1930s long-range plane which is the kind that would have been used on the world’s longest air route then. 1 Can you think of books which belong to the categories of books in Activity 1? Diaries: Famous diaries in English include: Pepys’ diary about 17th century London; Boswell’s diary about Samuel J