Book Review Outline

Book Reviews
I ´ll give you two possible outlines for book reviews.

1.Writing a Book Review.
To begin your research, you need to have the following information:Title of the book, Name of the author, and the Date of first publication.
Book reviews and reports generally include the following kinds of information:·Identification of the book, including the full title, name of the author, the publisher, the edition, the place and date of publication.·
A description or summary of the book's content, format, organization, and development.·A description or summary of the purpose of the book and its general argument or theme.
·A statement about the book's intended audience.·Information about the author.
·A critical evaluation, which discusses the book's strengths and weaknesses.
·Personal opinions and reactions to the book.

2. Book reports are a way to show how well you understood a book and to tell what you think about it. Many teachers have their own rules about what a book report should look like so be sure to check, but the following parts a book report are very common and may be helpful.Introduction:Things to include in the introduction:·The title (underlined) and author of the book.·Why you chose the book. ·What kind of story is it? (adventure? family? fantasy/make believe? animal? true life? scary?)Body:In this section you want to describe the main parts of a story: theme, plot, setting, and characters. Then you can give your opinions about the book.The Theme is the main idea of the story. Some examples might be the importance of friendship or how to be courageous in a difficult situation. Tell what you think the theme is and how you know.The Setting is the time and place of the story. Is it set a long time ago or now. Does it take place in another country or in an imaginary place? How much time passes in the story—a day? a year? a lifetime?The Plot is what happens.You want to tell what the story is mostly about. What is the main event or conflict? What things lead up to it? What happens as a result? How does the story end? (Sometimes you want to avoid telling the ending, or giving away the secrets of the story.)Be careful not to re-tell the whole story in detail—you want room in your report to write about other things; instead, just say enough about it so the rest of your report will make sense.The Characters are who the story is about. The main character is called the protagonist. Who are the other important characters? Do they help or hinder the protagonist?Once you have summarized the book, you can tell what you think about it. You can write about whatever opinions you have. Some questions you might want to answer are:·Did you like the story? Why or why not?·What was the best part of the book? Why?·How did the story make you feel? Did you feel different things at different points in the story?·Would you recommend it to friends?·Would you read other books by this author?· What new things did you learn from this book?Conclusion:This is just a sentence or two to sum up your report.Give your overall opinion of the book and the most important thing you want other people to know about it.
The book review should have the next outline:

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EPals

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These are your Epals emails addresses.AS I´m the administrator you can only open it in the classroom.
Branchina, Daniele
danieleb2@epals.com

Cannilla, Guido
guidoc@epals.com

Contreras, Antonio
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Díaz, Francisco José
franciscojosad@epals.com

Dudda, Ricardo
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Espinosa, Blanca
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Espuny, Alberto
albertoe@epals.com

Gonzalo, Sergio
segiog2@epals.com

Izquierdo, Adrián
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Muñoz, Victor
victorm10@epals.com

Navarro, Carlos
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Romero, Pablo
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Sánchez, Alejandro
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National Geographic videos

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INTERACTIVE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

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1. Think of a question
Organise the class into groups of 4 to 7, and give each group a set of face-down shuffled cards. The first student picks up a card, thinks of a question, and chooses a member of the group to ask. The question must use the word/words on the card (verb and adjective forms can be changed if necessary). “Stupid questions” are not allowed (for example, Do you like glass?). If the rest of the group judge that the question is stupid, the student with the card has to try again. Then the next students takes a card, and so on.
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A Formal Letter: To lodge a cell phone bill complaint

12 Infante Juan Manuel Street,
Murcia,
Spain
24 Hendon R.,
Cambridge,
CB1 2344
29 March 2005
Dear Sir or Madame,
In reply to your letter of 28th March, in which your mobile phone company asked me to pay a bill for £769.00, I am writing to complain about a mistake your firm has made.
I should remind you that I phoned your company on 3rd March because of the theft of my mobile phone on 2nd March. I spoke to a representative of your firm and I asked him if cancelling my mobile phone contract could be possible. The person to whom I spoke assured me that I would not have to pay for calls made after that day. Contrary to our agreement I received yesterday the letter which I made reference to previously. Because of this fact, I have decided to write this letter because it is obvious that the bill is wrong. Moreover, the days of March I used my mobile phone I spent a maximum of £3.00, and not such a high number.
I hope that your mobile phone company will pay attention to my letter and rectify the mistake. Please contact me if you have any further question.
Yours faithfully,
Sergio Gonzalo Ruiz.
Words: 207.

15, Ocean Street
London
CB2 3456
30 March 2005
Dear company,
I am writing to inform you about my situation.
The 2nd March my mobile phone was stolen and the next day I reported the theft to the police and I also phoned you to explain what had happened. The answer of your rep was that I would not have to pay the calls of the mobile phone after that day, 3rd March.
On 21st March I received a bill for ₤769.00 that I had not paid. Firstly I though that it had been a confusion but some days ago, 28th March, I received a final demand. It express that if I do not pay it before 3 April I will lost my phone and my contract, you will disconnect it.
Maybe if the bill was not so expensive I will pay it and I do not make complains but this bill is near to the ₤800.00. I’m not prepared to take care of the expense. I will not pay for it. I should remind you that I have not used my mobile phone during the whole month because as I had said it was stolen. I only made three calls the days 1st to 3rd March which cost a maximum of ₤3.00, it is obvious that I have not made this expense.
I hope you will quickly rectify and correct your error.
If you will not do it the person who is going to take legal action against you is me. I have the report I did and that I sent you this day and I also have the name of the person who I talked to.
I look forward to seeing this problem resolved.

By Blanca Espinosa

Dear director of my mobile phone company,
I am writing to complain about the payment of a bill, which consists on 769.00 L.
Three weeks ago, my mobile phone was stolen and I phoned you to inform you about the theft. After that, you told me that, if somebody made any call with my mobile phone, I won’t have to pay the bill. Because of that, I don’t understand the cause of the letter you have sent me requiring me to pay the bill, so I don’t think I should pay now the bill.
Under no circumstances I will pay the bill, for many reasons:
-If you have said me that I shouldn’t pay the bill, now you can’t require me that I make that.
-In the case I won’t have any idea of how to resolve that problem, you should have informed me about many solutions to do with my problem, not simply have told me that I won’t have to pay the bill.
-According by my calculations, the start day of the bill was the 25th of February, so I am will to pay the bill since that day to the day of the theft, but not the complete bill.
To conclude my letter, I would ask you to give me any solution to my problem with the bill, and if you don’t make that, I would cancel my mobile phone account with your company.

By Paula Muñoz

FORMAL LETTER
Dear mr Pepper:
I’m writing you to apply for the job that you offered me the last week. I know that I said to you I would think about your offer but I have though it better and I feel I want that job, no matter how hard it is. I would like to enter in the company as soon as possible, because I’m actually unemployed because of the bankruptcy of “Steven&Clark Bureau” which was the first company of the USA witch resolved poor people’s legal problems for free, only with the money received from the government and the particular’s donations. I also worked three years ago in “International Amnesty” where I formed part of the delegation that travelled to Afghanistan to prevent a woman being stoning by an adultery crime. All this information is in my CV which is enclosed to this letter. I would like to thank you to trust in me and give me this job. I’m looking forward to start working next Monday or as soon as possible.
Yours faithfully
Steven Mcmillan, ex director of “Steven&Clark Bureau” By Antonio Contreras