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LESSON 3 Books or e-books?
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i W o rk in p a irs . In te rv ie w y o u r p a rtn e r and d is c u s s h o w
m a n y o f th e fo llo w in g y o u a g re e w ith .
1 b W o rk in g ro u p s o f 4 . C o m p a re y o u r a n s w e rs .
2 R ead th e te x t a n d d is c u s s th e a d v a n ta g e s a n d d is a d v a n ta g e s
o f e - b o o k re a d e rs . U se th e w o rd s in th e b o x to h e lp y o u .
easy to use, light/heavy, bookshelf, paper, screen, space, carry, lend/borrow
For hundreds of years printed books are bought and sold. They have not 
changed very much until now. The idea of an electronic book reader with 
a screen instead of pages has becom e reality. Lots of E-book Reader pro ­
gram s were produced and millions of e-books were downloaded from web 
resources. Nowadays, there are about 725,000 e-books on Amazon and 
thousands more are added every year. So what is the future of books? Will 
printed books be com pletely replaced by e-books? They are not replaced 
yet. But, maybe, very soon there will be no printed books in shops at all. 
Perhaps they will only be in museums!
3 a
L o o k and a n s w e r th e q u e s tio n s .
1) W hat’s this?
2) Do you have this in your school?
3) If so, do you use it? W hy/why not?
4) If no, would you like to have it?
4 Read and d is c u s s . Use th e fo llo w in g
p h ra s e s to e x p re s s y o u r o p in io n a b o u t 
given s ta te m e n ts .
e .g . I think in the future people 
will only read e-books.
L is te n to a ra d io in te rv ie w w ith
a s c h o o l g ra d u a te , w h o c re a te d
e - lib ra r y fo r h is s c h o o l. L iste n
and w rite T fo r T rue and F fo r 
False. C o rre c t fa ls e s ta te m e n ts .
1) Maxim enjoys reading.
2) There w eren’t enough bookshops in 
his district.
3) M axim ’s e-library contains more than 
1 00
books.
4) It takes several minutes to download 
a book from the e-library.
5) Only adults can download books from it.
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) Books are easily downloaded with the 
help of QR code.
7) It is very d ifficu lt to download books 
from the e-library.
“I like books, an d I think books will
continue to be important in our so­
ciety. A certain kind of person has
said fo r years:
“Books are dead,
society is going downhill, ” an d then
something comes along like Harry
Potter, 754pages long, an d it sells five
million copies in twelve hours. The
age o f book is not over, no w a y ... But
maybe the age o f some books is over. ”
S te p h e n King