Why do we read Reading is important isnt

Why do we read? Reading is important, isn’t it? The teacher of English Dubrovskaya Olga Nikolaevna School named after A. S. Popov Vlasikha, Moscow region

“There is an art of reading as well as an art of thinking and an art of writing”. Isaac D’ Israel

What do we read for? What do we read?

We read for: Education Work Pleasure Life

We read for education: n Textbook n Encyclopedia n Biography n Scientific articles n Dictionary n Reference book

We read for work: The magazine “Study and Work” n Special literature n • For doctors • For teachers • For economists

We read for pleasure: Classic n Romance n Thriller n Adventure n Modern Novel n Science fiction n Sport n Humor n Poetry n

Is it really difficult to understand poetry?

Sonnet 66 W. Shakespeare Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily for sworn, And guilded honor shamefully misplaced, And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, And right perfection wrongfully disgraced, And strength by limping sway disabled, And art made tongue - tied by authority, And folly doctor-like controlling skill, And simple truth miscalled simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill: Tired with all these, from these would I be gone, Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.

R. Burns “My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer, A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe. My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go! Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birthplace of velour, the country of worth! Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love. Farewell to the mountains high cover’ d with snow, Farewell to the straths and green valleys below, Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods, Farewell to the torrents and long-pouring floods! My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer, A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe. My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go!

We read for life: n Gardening n Cookery n Travel n Craft n Fashion

Reading is: Easy Difficult Useful Harmful