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VOCABULARY: Books

Exercise 1. What's the difference between fiction and non-fiction books?

Choose the correct option and find out about the differences between fiction and non-fiction books.

As its name indicates, books are books with stories about imaginary people and places; in other words, people and places that . On the contrary, books are those about real people and events. Examples of books are short stories and  with wonderful characters. Examples of books are , books or .

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Exercise 2. Types of fiction book

The box below includes 9 types of fiction books. Match them to images 1-9.

romance novel - detective story - science fiction book - adventure book

horror novel - theatre play - fairy tale - fable - poetry book

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Vocabulary: Types of books. Ana Losada e José Luis Murado. CC BY-SA

  

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Exercise 3

Do you know the titles below? Choose the right type of book for each title. Click the titles to watch the trailer of their film adaptations.

  1. The Notebook is a
  2. 'Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band' is a 
  3. Frankenstein is a 
  4. Cinderella is my favourite
  5. Romeo and Juliet is a  novel with a tragic ending
  6. Journey to the centre of the Earth is a great
  7. 'The Ant and the Grasshopper' is a  with a good moral lesson
  8. Have you read Songs of Innocence and Experience? It's a great
  9. Treasure Island is an amazing  book

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Bonus Task

Need more practice? To do more vocabulary exercises about books, click the link below.

 
You will be taken to Learning Chocolate, a very useful website to learn vocabulary as it includes wordsorganised into categories and plenty of exercises to revise their spelling and pronunciation.

 

Watch the following tutorial to learn how to use the site:

How to use Learning Chocolate to Improve Your English. Vídeo de Curso Tic Oral Skills en YouTube. Licencia CC BY