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Vocabulary: reading and writing.

Reading is a fundamental activity. For centuries, it has given access to knowledge, and it still does. From our young years, reading has given us privileged moments of pleasure and discovery of the world through the stories and books we were read to. At best, these early readings have immersed our minds, and influenced them, giving them the pleasure of touching and "reading" books. They may have sparked off interest - and love - for books. Thus, reading may become a necessity and a pleasure occupying leisure time. Reading is a key to many entertaining fields and we should never neglect it.

Writing is also a privileged form of expression and communication...

READING:

To read/ a reader

To read something aloud

To read to somebody

A bedside book

To scan something/ to skim through something

To leaf through/ to browse through a book

To decipher

- To read something from beginning to end

- To be immersed in a book

- To take some reading matter

- To leaf through a book/ to browse through a book

- I can't make it out: I can't read and understand

WRITING:

To write/ in writing

The alphabet

Illiterate/ illiteracy

Handwritten

To inscribe/ an inscription

An autograph

To inscribe a book to

To take notes

In block letters/ block capitals

In capitals/ capital letters

In black and white

A scribble/ a scrawl

- To make a note of sg/To write sg down/ To jot sg down

- To have good/ poor (hand) writing

To decipher

Legible/ illegible

A scrawl/ to scrawl

A scribble/ to scribble

Spelling/ to spell

To annotate

A draft

A rough copy

A fair copy

To correct/ a correction

To rub sth out/ To erase (with a rubber)

To delete

To strike something out

To score something out

To make an alteration to something

To edit something

A rough copy

To write something up

To rewrite

To reword

To copy something out

To transcribe/ a transcription

- To read one's lips: to interpret and understand what one says by observing the shapes of the words they form with their lips.

- To read oneself to sleep.

- To read one's mind/ one's thoughts: to guess what someone is thinking.

- To write one's own ticket: dictate your own terms.

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1. Little Kyle has just started primary school, but he still wants to be every evening before going to bed.

2. I’ll let you my bookshelves, and I’m sure you’ll find something interesting to read for this weekend.

3. 'You can’t give me reports! You’ll need to type them and hand them back by tomorrow morning.'

4. His handwriting is so bad that his letter is almost and I have to guess half of it.

5. In the first of the novel, the ending was different and I liked it better.

6. I shouldn’t have the receipt on my computer. I have lost the paper one and now I have no proof of my purchase.

7. 'You should write in pencil. It would be easier to if you make mistakes.'

8. This novel has become my . I’ve read it over and over again. I know some passages by heart.

9. This book is so boring that I might with it. Can you recommend another one?

10. 'Don’t forget, all sentences start with a and end with a full stop.'

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