Friday, April 22, 2011

Book discussion questions and idioms for ESL English Corner

BOOKS
What are they?
Verbs we use with books:  read, skim, consult, refer to, scan, 
How much reading do you do in a week?
Where do you read?  Internet, newspapers, books, magazines, signs.  Of these, what is you favorite way to read.
How many books do you read in a month?  Do you read for pleasure or self-improvement?  Do you like hard books or brain candy?  
What kind of reading do you do?  (elicit the genres: action, mystery, suspense, detective, science fiction, children's, war, non-fiction, travel, poetry, self-help, history, biography, autobiography, gothic, classic literature, modern literature)
What kinds of book are brain candy?
Is reading a beneficial activity?
Do you read as many books as you used to?  Do you go to the library or book store as much as you used?  Do you think everyone in the future will be reading books on e-book devices?
Have you read a book (not an article) on the Internet or on a electronic device?
Do you like to go to second hand book shops?
What is your favorite book?  What five books would you take with you to a desert island?
Do you have a book to recommend to others?  What book best explains China to a foreigner?
Are there books you can't put down?  What is the longest time you have sat reading a book?
What book are you reading now?  What's it about?
How do you choose the book you are going to read?
What book is at your bedside?  Do you read in bed?  Do you read before you do to sleep?
Do you like to carry books with you?
What book have you read many times over?
What is the longest book you have ever read?
What is the most read book in China?  In the west?
So many books; so little time.  Agree?
How many books have you read in your lifetime?
What do you do with the books you have read?  Do you keep them?
Do you read one book after another?  Or do you read a few books in a time period?
When you read, do you mark up the books?  Do you underline interesting passages?

BOOK IDIOMS
Be in good books
A coffer table book
By the book
Cook the books
Don't judge a book by its cover
That's one for the books
Nose in a book
Crack a book
Throw at book at someone
He reads the good book from dawn to sunset.

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