A favorite book

Part 1
Describe an instructive book that you have read.

You should say:

1)What the title of the book is
2)What the content is
3)When you read this book
And explain why this book is instructive or important to you.

Part 2
Discussion topics:
What kind of book do Korean people like to read
What's the difference between the books that girls and boys read and women and
men read
What's the bestseller in Korea
Do you often read books
Do people read books to get entertainment or for knowledge
Do you think that we can gain knowledge from both TV and books
Do you spend more time reading or watching TV
Do you think it is good to watch TV
What is the role do you think a library performs

What is the role of the book possesses in the education
What is your opinions about read for fun and read for purpose
do you have a collection of books?
do you think that people's tastes in books change as they get older?
do men and women like to read the same types of books?
in the future, do you think that books printed on paper will disappear?
if you wrote a book, what kind of book would it be?


useful vocabulary:
classical literature, paperbacks, bestseller, romance, detective stories, product
handbooks, reference material, technical literature, scan, photocopy, comics, popular
novels, romance,
detective story, adventure, crime, history, popular science, science fiction, classical
works, reference
books, pictures and albums, poetry, autobiography, biography, gardening, cooking,
recipe, fictions,
non-fictions, short stories, thrillers, horror, textbooks, children's books, poems, fairy
tales, novelist, poet,
philosopher, historian

example:
in the future, do you think that books printed on paper will disappear?
yes---already many younger people prefer to read e-books, anything to do with
computers is
trendy, discs can hold a lot of information in a small space, downloading will
become easer
and faster, distribution will be easier, useful in distance learning.