GRADE 12

Why read when television can bring you all the ......... and ....... with colour, picture and action?

That does not mean reading it too slowly. When you pick up a book for the ............ time, check that it is not too ...........

A S.............. F.................. book is a type of book that is based on imagined scientific discoveries of the future.

Television has replaced books altogether.

When you "taste" a book you read it carefully from the beginning to the end.

If you like books with an exciting story especially ones about crime or spies, read a T........

A N............ is a story long enough to fill a complete book, in which the characters and events are usually imaginary.

But, in fact, television has not ........ reading. Today, more books of every kind are .......... than ever before.

It is enough to ........ ....... it and read bits ......... .......... ............ In a word, this is “tasting”.

For example, you might ....... ...... a travel book and read a few pages before going to sleep.

Books in the home are a wonderful source of ......... and ..........

Other books are for reading slowly and carefully. If it is a book on a subject that you are ........... in, you will want to “....... and digest it”.

Many people only have time to read when they are travelling.

Books with good stories are often described as "hard-to-put-down".

Some stories are for “swallowing”. Imagine that you have found a good story, and, what is even more ............, the time to enjoy it.

Books are still a ...........way to get information and ........, and you can keep a book forever and read it many times.

If you want to learn how to knit or work with wood, you should buy a C........... book.

Francis Bacon, who lived at about the same time as Shakespeare, wrote these words, “Some books are to be tasted, others to be .................., and some few to be chewed and ..........”

If you enjoy reading stories about love affairs, a R........... is the right book for you.

Do not start a book unless you can see from the first few pages that it is one you can ........ read and understand.

But not all stories belong to this class. ............. sometimes describe books as “hard-to-put- down”, or “hard-to-pick-up-again”.

Some people think that as more and more people have television in their ..........., fewer and fewer people will buy books to read.

This good advice shows how it is ....... to read different types of books in different ways.

You might be on holiday, or on a long train journey. If it is a good book, you might say, “It’s so good I can’t ...... .... ......”