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30 million people invited to read books (6th January, 2015)

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The co-founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has launched what could be the world's largest ever book club. Zuckerberg announced last week that his New Year's resolution was to read a book every other week. He then invited his 30 million followers to join him in his literary pursuit. He created his own Facebook page called A Year of Books, on which he will announce what his latest read is and ask people to discuss the book with him. He explained the rationale for his initiative in a post, saying: "I'm excited for my reading challenge. I've found reading books very intellectually fulfilling. Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today."

Zuckerberg has already selected his first book, 'The End of Power' by Moises Naim. He explained: "It's a book that explores how the world is shifting to give individual people more power that was traditionally only held by large governments, militaries and other organizations. The trend towards giving people more power is one I believe in deeply, and I'm looking forward to reading this book and exploring this in more detail." Zuckerberg takes on a challenge every year as a way to broaden his perspectives and learn more about the world, different cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies. A previous task was to learn to speak Mandarin, which he has managed to do.

Try the same news story at these easier levels:

Level 4 or Level 5

Sources

http://time.com/3652919/mark-zuckerberg-book-club-facebook/
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/24435/20150104/mark-zuckerberg-s-2015-personal-challenge-a-year-of-books.htm
http://mashable.com/2015/01/04/mark-zuckerbergs-new-years-resolution/

Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice, drag and drop activities, crosswords, hangman, flash cards, matching activities and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

The 40 Lesson Activities on the PDF Handout

WARM-UPS

1. READING: Students walk around the class and talk to other students about reading. Change partners often and share your findings.

2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, talk about these topics or words from the article. What will the article say about them? What can you say about these words and your life?

co-founder / Facebook / book club / resolution / literary / initiative / intellectually / selected / individual / power / looking forward / perspectives / beliefs / previous task

Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently.

3. BOOKS: What do you think of these? Complete this table and share what you wrote with your partner(s). Change partners often.

	My thoughts	Importance to me	How often I read them
Fiction novels
Autobiographies
Religious books
Self-help books
Encyclopedia
Travel guides

4. MEDIA: Students A strongly believe books are the best form of written media; Students B strongly believe the digital media are better than books. Change partners again and talk about your conversations.

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5. GENRES: Rank these with your partner. Put the best literary genres at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings.

• science fiction

• historical fiction

• mystery and suspense

• romance

• fantasy

• contemporary life

• spy drama

• biography

6. LITERARY: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word "literary". Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories.

BEFORE READING / LISTENING

1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F).

a.	Mark Zuckerberg has launched the world's biggest book club.	T / F
b.	Zuckerberg said he would read a book every week for a year.	T / F
c.	People will get the chance to discuss books with Zuckerberg.	T / F
d.	Zuckerberg says reading books is intellectually fulfilling.	T / F
e.	There is a competition to select Zuckerberg's first book.	T / F
f.	Zuckerberg deeply believed individuals should have more power.	T / F
g.	This is the first of many yearly challenges Zuckerberg will take on.	T / F
h.	Zuckerberg previously learned to speak Mandarin.	T / F

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

1.	launched	a.	chosen
2.	resolution	b.	satisfying
3.	pursuit	c.	activity
4.	fulfilling	d.	moving
5.	immerse	e.	ways of thinking
6.	selected	f.	started
7.	shifting	g.	movement
8.	trend	h.	earlier
9.	perspectives	i.	absorb
10.	previous	j.	intention

3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)

1.	The co-	a.	explore a topic
2.	New Year's	b.	pursuit
3.	join him in his literary	c.	a deeper way
4.	Books allow you to fully	d.	more detail
5.	immerse yourself in	e.	more power
6.	a book that explores how	f.	by large governments
7.	give individual people	g.	founder of Facebook
8.	traditionally only held	h.	to speak Mandarin
9.	exploring this in	i.	resolution
10.	A previous task was to learn	j.	the world is shifting

GAP FILL

The co-founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has (1) __________ what could be the world's largest ever book club. Zuckerberg announced last week that his New Year's (2) __________ was to read a book every other week. He then invited his 30 million followers to join him in his literary (3) __________. He created his own Facebook page called A Year of Books, on which he will announce what his latest (4) __________ is and ask people to discuss the book with him. He explained the rationale for his (5) __________ in a post, saying: "I'm excited for my reading challenge. I've found reading books very intellectually (6) __________. Books allow you to fully (7) __________ a topic and immerse yourself in a (8) __________ way than most media today."

fulfilling
read
resolution
explore
launched
deeper
pursuit
initiative

Zuckerberg has already (9) __________ his first book, 'The End of Power' by Moises Naim. He explained: "It's a book that explores how the world is (10) __________ to give individual people more power that was traditionally only held by large governments, (11) __________ and other organizations. The trend towards giving people more power is one I believe in (12) __________, and I'm looking forward to reading this book and exploring this in more detail." Zuckerberg takes on a (13) __________ every year as a way to (14) __________ his perspectives and learn more about the world, different cultures, (15) __________, histories and technologies. A previous (16) __________ was to learn to speak Mandarin, which he has managed to do.

challenge
beliefs
shifting
deeply
selected
broaden
task
militaries

LISTENING - Guess the answers. Listen to check.

1)	his New Year's resolution was to read a book ______
	a. every other's week b. every other week c. every another week d. every the other week
2)	… on which he will announce what his ______
	a. latest reads is b. latest reading is c. latest read is d. latest ready is
3)	He explained the rationale for his ______ post
	a. initiative in a b. inactive in a c. initiation in a d. innovation in a
4)	I've found reading books very ______
	a. intellectual and fulfilling b. intellectually fully filling c. intellectual and fully filling d. intellectually fulfilling
5)	Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself ______
	a. in a deepen way b. in a depend way c. in a deeper way d. in a deepens way
6)	It's a book that explores how the ______
	a. world is shifting b. world is sifting c. world is shift in d. world is sift in
7)	give individual people more power that was traditionally only ______ governments
	a. hold by large b. held by large c. holds by large d. holding by large
8)	The trend towards giving people more power is one ______
	a. I believe in deeply b. I believing deeply c. I believing in deeply d. I belief in deeply
9)	Zuckerberg takes on a challenge every year as a way ______ perspectives
	a. to broad end his b. to broadens his c. to broadening his d. to broaden his
10)	A previous task was to learn to speak Mandarin, which he ______ do
	a. has managers to b. has managed to c. has manage to d. has managed do

LISTENING – Listen and fill in the gaps

(1) ___________________ Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has launched what could be the world's largest ever book club. Zuckerberg announced last week that his New Year's resolution was to read a book (2) ___________________. He then invited his 30 million followers to join him (3) ___________________. He created his own Facebook page called A Year of Books, on which he will announce what his latest read is and ask people to discuss (4) ___________________. He explained the rationale for his initiative in a post, saying: "I'm excited for my reading challenge. I've found reading books very (5) ___________________. Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a (6) ___________________ media today."

Zuckerberg has (7) ___________________ first book, 'The End of Power' by Moises Naim. He explained: "It's a book (8) ___________________ the world is shifting to give individual people more power that was traditionally only held by large governments, militaries and other organizations. The trend towards giving people more power is one (9) ___________________, and I'm looking forward to reading this book and exploring (10) ___________________." Zuckerberg takes on a challenge every year as a way to broaden (11) ___________________ learn more about the world, different cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies. A previous task was to learn to speak Mandarin, which (12) ___________________ do.

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

1.	What did the article say Zuckerberg's book club could be?
2.	What is Mark Zuckerberg's New Year's resolution?
3.	How many people did Mark Zuckerberg ask to join him?
4.	What is Mark Zuckerberg's new Facebook page called?
5.	What did Zuckerberg say allowed people to explore a topic more fully?
6.	What has Mark Zuckerberg already chosen?
7.	What does "The End of Power" say the world is doing?
8.	What trend does Mark Zuckerberg believe in deeply?
9.	What does Mark Zuckerberg want to broaden through his challenges?
10.	What language did Mark Zuckerberg learn in an earlier challenge?

MULTIPLE CHOICE - QUIZ

1.	What did the article say Zuckerberg's book club could be?	6.	What has Mark Zuckerberg already chosen?
	a) the world's biggest b) expensive c) exclusive d) rewarding		a) his next website b) a book store c) his challenge for 2016 d) his first book
2.	What is Mark Zuckerberg's New Year's resolution?	7.	What does "The End of Power" say the world is doing?
	a) to increase world literacy b) to read all of Shakespeare c) to read a book every other week d) to give thousands of books away		a) stalling b) shifting c) getting worse d) collapsing
3.	How many people did Mark Zuckerberg ask to join him?	8.	What trend does Mark Zuckerberg believe in deeply?
	a) 30,000 b) 30,000,000 c) 300,000 d) 30		a) more rap in the music charts b) the move to e-readers c) greater Internet use d) giving people more power
4.	What is Mark Zuckerberg's new Facebook page called?	9.	What does Mark Zuckerberg want to broaden through his challenges?
	a) Facebook Books b) Facebook Reading c) The Yearly Book d) A Year of Books		a) his business b) his circle of friends c) his perspectives d) his chest
5.	What did Zuckerberg say allowed people to explore a topic more fully?	10.	What language did Mark Zuckerberg learn in an earlier challenge?
	a) books b) the Internet c) Facebook d) school		a) Thai b) Mandarin c) Arabic d) Spanish

ROLE PLAY

Role A – Science fiction novels

You think science fiction novels are the best kind of books. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them why their books aren't so good. Also, tell the others which is the least interesting of these (and why): romance novels, biographies or encyclopaedia.

Role B – Romance novels

You think romance novels are the best kind of books. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them why their books aren't so good. Also, tell the others which is the least interesting of these (and why): science fiction novels, biographies or encyclopaedia.

Role C – Biographies

You think biographies are the best kind of books. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them why their books aren't so good. Also, tell the others which is the least interesting of these (and why): romance novels, science fiction novels or encyclopaedia.

Role D – Encyclopaedia

You think encyclopaedia are the best kind of books. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them why their books aren't so good. Also, tell the others which is the least interesting of these (and why): romance novels, biographies or science fiction novels.

AFTER READING / LISTENING

1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words 'book' and 'club'.

book

club

Share your findings with your partners.

Make questions using the words you found.
Ask your partner / group your questions.

2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.

Share your questions with other classmates / groups.
Ask your partner / group your questions.

3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise. Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new, interesting, worth learning…?

4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings.

5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text:

could
other
join
latest
saying
way

already
give
held
detail
learn
task

READING SURVEY

Write five GOOD questions about reading in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper.

When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

	STUDENT 1 _____________	STUDENT 2 _____________	STUDENT 3 _____________
Q.1.
Q.2.
Q.3.
Q.4.
Q.5.

Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found out. Change partners often.

Make mini-presentations to other groups on your findings.

READING DISCUSSION

STUDENT A's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

1)	What did you think when you read the headline?
2)	What springs to mind when you hear the word 'book'?
3)	How important are books?
4)	What do you think of reading clubs?
5)	What do you think of the idea of discussing a book you read?
6)	What's your favourite book, and why?
7)	What's your biggest problem with reading?
8)	Is it better to read a book or an e-reader?
9)	Do books let you explore more than any other media?
10)	What books do you find intellectually fulfilling?

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STUDENT B's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

11)	Did you like reading this article? Why/not?
12)	What recent book that you read would you recommend, and why?
13)	Would you like to read the book Mark Zuckerberg selected?
14)	If you wrote a book, what would it be about?
15)	What would you say to someone who doesn't like reading?
16)	Are there any bad things about reading books?
17)	What do you think we'll be reading in 100 years from now?
18)	How often do you think people should read?
19)	What do you think of this reading challenge?
20)	What questions would you like to ask Mark Zuckerberg?

DISCUSSION (Write your own questions)

STUDENT A's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
1.	________________________________________________________
2.	________________________________________________________
3.	________________________________________________________
4.	________________________________________________________
5.	________________________________________________________
6.	________________________________________________________

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STUDENT B's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
1.	________________________________________________________
2.	________________________________________________________
3.	________________________________________________________
4.	________________________________________________________
5.	________________________________________________________
6.	________________________________________________________

LANGUAGE - CLOZE

The co-(1) ____ of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has launched what could be the world's largest ever book club. Zuckerberg announced last week that his New Year's resolution was to read a book every (2) ____ week. He then invited his 30 million followers to join him (3) ____ his literary pursuit. He created his own Facebook page called A Year of Books, on (4) ____ he will announce what his latest read is and ask people to discuss the book with him. He explained the (5) ____ for his initiative in a post, saying: "I'm excited for my reading challenge. I've found reading books very intellectually (6) ____. Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today."

Zuckerberg has (7) ____ selected his first book, 'The End of Power' by Moises Naim. He explained: "It's a book that explores how the world is (8) ____ to give individual people more power that was traditionally only held by large governments, militaries and other organizations. The (9) ____ towards giving people more power is one I believe in deeply, and I'm looking forward to reading this book and exploring this (10) ____ more detail." Zuckerberg takes on a challenge every year as a way to broaden his perspectives and learn more about the world, different cultures, (11) ____, histories and technologies. A previous task was to learn to speak Mandarin, which he has (12) ____ to do.

Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.

1.	(a)	finder	(b)	founder	(c)	finding	(d)	found
2.	(a)	one	(b)	other	(c)	all	(d)	this
3.	(a)	by	(b)	as	(c)	to	(d)	in
4.	(a)	while	(b)	which	(c)	when	(d)	where
5.	(a)	rations	(b)	rationale	(c)	rational	(d)	ration
6.	(a)	filling	(b)	fully	(c)	fulfilling	(d)	filled
7.	(a)	yet	(b)	final	(c)	already	(d)	started
8.	(a)	sifting	(b)	sampling	(c)	shifting	(d)	slumping
9.	(a)	trendy	(b)	trends	(c)	tend	(d)	trend
10.	(a)	to	(b)	of	(c)	on	(d)	in
11.	(a)	beliefs	(b)	believes	(c)	believers	(d)	belies
12.	(a)	spoken	(b)	rarified	(c)	managed	(d)	coped

SPELLING

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PUT THE TEXT BACK TOGETHER

Number these lines in the correct order.

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( )	held by large governments, militaries and other organizations. The trend towards giving people more
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PUT THE WORDS IN THE RIGHT ORDER

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CIRCLE THE CORRECT WORD (20 PAIRS)

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Talk about the connection between each pair of words in italics, and why the correct word is correct.

INSERT THE VOWELS (a, e, i, o, u)

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PUNCTUATE THE TEXT AND ADD CAPITALS

the co-founder of facebook mark zuckerberg has launched what could be the world's largest ever book club zuckerberg announced last week that his new year's resolution was to read a book every other week he then invited his 30 million followers to join him in his literary pursuit he created his own facebook page called a year of books on which he will announce what his latest read is and ask people to discuss the book with him he explained the rationale for his initiative in a post saying "i'm excited for my reading challenge i've found reading books very intellectually fulfilling books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today"

zuckerberg has already selected his first book 'the end of power' by moises naim he explained "it's a book that explores how the world is shifting to give individual people more power that was traditionally only held by large governments militaries and other organizations the trend towards giving people more power is one i believe in deeply and i'm looking forward to reading this book and exploring this in more detail" zuckerberg takes on a challenge every year as a way to broaden his perspectives and learn more about the world different cultures beliefs histories and technologies a previous task was to learn to speak mandarin which he has managed to do

PUT A SLASH ( / ) WHERE THE SPACES ARE

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fs,historiesandtechnologies.AprevioustaskwastolearntospeakMand
arin,whichhehasmanagedtodo.

FREE WRITING

Write about reading for 10 minutes. Comment on your partner's paper.

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ACADEMIC WRITING

Reading is the most important thing to learn at school. Discuss.

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HOMEWORK

1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google's search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.

2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about reading. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson.

3. READING: Make a poster about reading. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things?

4. BOOK CLUBS: Write a magazine article about book clubs. Include imaginary interviews with people who are for and against it.

Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s).

5. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? Write a newspaper article about the next stage in this news story. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Give each other feedback on your articles.

6. LETTER: Write a letter to an expert on reading. Ask him/her three questions about reading. Give him/her three of your ideas on how to get people to read who aren't interested in book. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions.

A Few Additional Activities for Students

Ask your students what they have read, seen or heard about this news in their own language. Students are likely to / may have have encountered this news in their L1 and therefore bring a background knowledge to the classroom.

Get students to role play different characters from this news story.

Ask students to keep track of this news and revisit it to discuss in your next class.

Ask students to male predictions of how this news might develop in the next few days or weeks, and then revisit and discuss in a future class.

Ask students to write a follow-up story to this news.

Students role play a journalist and someone who witnessed or was a part of this news. Perhaps they could make a video of the interview.

Ask students to keep a news journal in English and add this story to their thoughts.

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While-reading / While-listening
Moving from text to speech
Post-reading / Post-listening
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Using opinions
Plans
Language
Using lists
Using quotes
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Using the central characters in the article
Using themes from the news
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ANSWERS

TRUE / FALSE (p.4)

a

F

b

F

c

T

d

T

e

F

f

T

g

F

h

T

SYNONYM MATCH (p.4)

1.	launched	a.	started
2	resolution	b.	intention
3.	pursuit	c.	activity
4.	fulfilling	d.	satisfying
5.	immerse	e.	absorb
6.	selected	f.	chosen
7.	shifting	g.	moving
8.	trend	h.	movement
9.	perspectives	i.	ways of thinking
10.	previous	j.	earlier

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS (p.8)

1.	The world's biggest
2.	To read a book every other week
3.	30 million
4.	A Year of Books
5.	Books
6.	His first book
7.	Shifting
8.	Giving more power to people
9.	His perspectives
10.	Mandarin

MULTIPLE CHOICE - QUIZ (p.9)

1.

a

2.

c

3.

b

4.

d

5.

a

6.

d

7.

b

8.

d

9.

c

10.

b

ALL OTHER EXERCISES

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