Listening
1
Look at the photos and discuss the questions.
How can people benefit from reading books?
Why do you think people prefer consuming books in these 3 different ways?
2
Choose the correct meaning of the underlined words/phrases.
If newspapers
outsell
magazines, they
a)
are sold in greater amounts than magazines.
b)
are sold less than magazines.
If you
are inclined
to read news online,
a)
you never want to do so.
b)
you are likely or want to do so.
If you
are involved
in something,
a)
you are very interested in what you are doing.
b)
you are not very motivated to finish what you are doing.
3
Listen to the first part of the talk. Are the sentences True or False?
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Analysts' predictions haven’t come true.
Meryl Halls thinks that people like to show others that they have read books.
E-book collections are always permanent.
People focus on details when they read from the screen.
Deep reading gets activated when we read something on the Internet.
According to the study, people remember better when they read an ebook.