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Real Life Skill A Match each type of book with its description.
Identifying Types of Books
1 romance a scary stories
2 horror b stories about real people and events
In bookstores, books
are grouped together 3 science fiction c stories about the future, travel in space, etc.
by type. For example, 4 mystery/thriller __ d love stories
books about countries 5 nonfiction e an important work of writing
and vacations are 6 literature f a story where you try to guess the ending
usually in the travel
section of a bookstore. B Read the book titles and descriptions. What type of book is each one?
Knowing a book's type Write the number from A in the chart. Some books are more than one type.
can help you find it
faster. /Book Type of Book�
The Time Machine 3,6
H. G. Wells
A man creates a machine and travels to the future. This book is
read in many high school English classes.
Angela's Ashes
Frank Mccourt
The true story of a boy who grew up poor in Ireland. The story
won a number of prizes.
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
The diary Anne Frank kept while hiding from the Nazis in the
1940s
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
A Frenchwoman and an American man try to find a killer.
They fall in love duringJhe adventure.
Twilight -:
Stephenie Meyer
A story about a human girl who falls in love with a vampire boy.
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
A young boy goes from India to North America by ship. The
ship sinks, and the boy must share a small boat with a tiger.
'-This book won a writing prize in 2002. �

What do you think?

1 Which story in this unit was more interesting to you? Why?
2 Both stories in this unit were about scary events. Do you know any scary stories?
Tell the story to your partner.

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