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7. What are your favourite books?
8. Who is your favourite author?
9. Do you know what the word "bookplate" means?
18. Read the following proper names aloud.
Charles Dickens [tja:lz'dikinz], Oscar Wilde ['oska'waild], Jack London ['d3aek'lAndan], Martin Eden fma:tin'i:dn], Lilian Voinich ['lihan'voinitj], William Shakespeare [w'lljam'Jeikspia], John Galsworthy ['d3on'go:lzwa:6x], Ernest Hemingway ['arnist'heminwei]
19. Read the dialogues. Practise them in pairs. Make up similar dialogues.
Librarian: What can I do for you?
Petro: May I ask you for "Live with Lightning" by
Mitchell Wilson? Librarian: Worse luck (не пощастило), it's just has been
taken.
Petro: And "The Gadfly" by Voinich?
Librarian: We've two copies, but both are out. Wouldn't you like "The Old Man and the Sea" by Hemingway?
Petro: All right.
Librarian: Here is your book. I'll keep (я відкладу) "The
Gadfly" for you when the book is returned. Petro: Thank you. Good afternoon. Librarian: Good afternoon.
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— Hello, Petro. Where are you going?
— To the library. They say (говорять) there's an interesting article in today's "Kyiv Post".
— I'll go with you and look through the back numbers (старі номери) of the "News from Ukraine".
— All right. I also have to renew my book (продовжити термін користування книжкою).
— Some humorous stories as usual?
— Oh, no. It's "Martin Eden" by Jack London.
— And I'm fond of scientific fiction.
20*. Write about the book you have recently read. 21*. Do task 14 on pages 127—129.
Lesson 56
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