Letture - Frasario - Trascrizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting English on how to talk to your friends about reading.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be listening to some useful phrases you’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to two people discussing reading.
So let’s start!

Letture - Frasario - Podcast

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting English on how to talk to your friends about reading.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be listening to some useful phrases you’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to two people discussing reading.
So let’s start!

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Letture - Frasario

Le frasi contenute in questa lezione ti aiuteranno a parlare di libri con gli amici.

Questions:

Do you like/enjoy reading?
What kind of books do you read?
What was the last book you read?
Did you like it?
Have you read “Angels and Demons”?

Answers you may give:

I don’t like reading at all. It’s boring.
I’m a bookworm! I read a lot!
I love thrillers.
I’ve just finished “The Da Vinci Code”.
It was a real page-turner OR it was extremely interesting
I didn’t like it at all.
Yes, I have. I can lend it to you if you want OR you can keep it until you have read it.

Letture - Grammatica - Trascrizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting survival English on how to discuss hypothetical situations.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be learning how to use conditional sentences.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to two friends imagining the future and discussing the past.
So let’s start!

Letture - Grammatica - Podcast

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting survival English on how to discuss hypothetical situations.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be learning how to use conditional sentences.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to two friends imagining the future and discussing the past.
So let’s start!

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Letture - Grammatica

La lezione di oggi ti illustrerà la costruzione del periodo ipotetico.

In inglese, il periodo ipotetico è distinto in quattro diversi livelli, a seconda del grado di possibilità dell’evento.

Osserva le frasi che seguono:

• If you buy three books, you get one free.
• If you lend John a book, he will keep it for months!
• If I had a lot of money, I would spend it all on books.
• If you had put your book in your bag, you wouldn’t have left it on the train.

Le due parti del periodo ipotetico possono essere invertite: I would buy that book if I had the money.
In questo caso, però, le due parti non vanno separate dalla virgola.

Letture - Lettura - Trascrizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting English on a novel way to share books.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be listening to some useful English expressions about the global activity of sharing books.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to information about how to take part in the modern activity of “book crossing”.
So let’s start!

Letture - Lettura - Podcast

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting English on a novel way to share books.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be listening to some useful English expressions about the global activity of sharing books.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to information about how to take part in the modern activity of “book crossing”.
So let’s start!

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Letture - Lettura

Nella lezione di oggi parliamo di un interessante fenomeno che sta coinvolgendo i lettori in tutto il mondo.

Bookcrossing (scambio di libri) is the the name given to the practice of leaving (lasciare) a book in a public space (a bus stop, a cinema, an airport) so that someone else can find it and read it.
The idea came to Ron Hornbaker, an American software developer who set up (ha realizzato) a website, www.bookcrossing.com, in 2001. The purpose (scopo) of bookcrossing is to make the whole world a global reading club.
But how do you start bookcrossing?
If you want to “release” (liberare) a book, you have to register it on the BookCrossing website. Your book will be given an identification number so that it can be tracked (rintracciato). Those who find the book are requested to report (riferire) the event on the website and pass the book after they have read it. When someone records journal entries (annotazioni) for your book, you will get notified (avvertito) by e-mail. Bookcrossing has 250,000 members across the world and has also been added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as a new word.

[adapted from www.wikipedia.org]

Letture - Vocabolario - Trascrizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting English about books.
Before starting, let me first explain that you’ll be listening to some useful English vocabulary on literature. You’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
So let’s start!

Letture - Vocabolario - Podcast

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting English about books.
Before starting, let me first explain that you’ll be listening to some useful English vocabulary on literature. You’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
So let’s start!

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Letture - Vocabolario

Leggendo questa lezione imparerai alcune parole legate all’ambito della lettura e dei libri.

A bookshop is a place where you can buy books.

A bookseller is somebody who sells books.

A library is a place where people can go to read and study the books that are kept there. In many public libraries you can also borrow the books for a period of time.

A librarian is a person who works in a library.

If you borrow a book from a library, you take it home and you give it back after you have read it.

A library card is a pass that allows you to borrow books from a library.

If a friend lends you a book, he or she gives it to you but you have to return it after you have read it.

A bookworm is somebody who likes reading a lot, and buys a lot of books.

A bookmark is a thin piece of paper or other material that you put between the pages of the book so that you can find the point at which you stopped reading.