Tommorow Never Comes
2. SUMMARY
Tommy and Margie live sometime in the future where books printed on paper are no longer used. Tommy finds a real book on paper and shows it to Margie whose mechanical teacher is being repaired. Tommy and Margie both do school with a mechanical teacher at home. Tommy is older than Margie and tells her what he knows about books and schools in the past. They discover that in the past not only were books written on paper, but that teachers were people and schools were special buildings where all the children from a neighbourhood met together and learned the same things, having fun and helping each other. The children discuss the relative merits of methods in the past and methods in their present day. This, in turn, invites the reader to reflect in a similar way.
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1. The text (story) under discussion is entitled ... ...
The students are required to complete the sentence giving the title of the story.
2. It is written by ... a (the) famous (outstanding, prominent, well-known) English (American, Australian, Canadian, South African) novelist (short story writer, dramatist, poet) ...
The students complete the sentence giving the name of the author. They must memorize synonyms and display erudition defining the author's nationality and literary specialization. It should be pointed out to the students that one and the same author could have several literary specializations. For example, O. Wilde was a novelist, a poet, and a dramatist. Sometimes it's possible to indicate genre of literature; speaking about I. Asimov or H. Wells it would be natural to characterize them as science fiction writers. If the author is very famous, the students can give additional information stating his period of life, naming main works, and specific features of literary style.
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PhiN 18/2001: 41
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