In this acrivity you are given a statement. Think of all possible meanings it may convey and contexts it may occur in.

107 The sentences below contain more ‘books’ words. Read them carefully and make sure you understand them.

1 I was an avid reader as a child.

2 My grandchildren are great readers, so I always give them books for their birthday.

3 Along with being an expert in business law, Martin is a voraciousreader of detective stories.

4 I was a real bookworm when I was a child.

5 Charles was a well-read and highly educated man.

6 Although jack stopped his studies at 19, he was very well-read, especially inthe classics.

7 The average reader of science fiction is young and male.

8 Her newspaper now has a readership of more than 500,000.

9 The local newspaper has a circulation of around 16,000.

10 Over the last hundred years people have become healthier, more literate, and better educated.

11 Children are expected to be competent readers by the time they leave this class.

12 Good readers tend to be better at spelling than other children.

13 Cuba has one of the highest literacy rates in the world.

14 His father was an illiterate farm worker.

15 At the end of the day the teacher does half an hour’s extra work with the slow readers.

16 Illiteracy rates among women in many countries are a serious cause for concern.

17 Her writing was so tiny that it was barely legible.

18 I don’t know what this note says- Dad’s handwriting is totally illegible.

19 I received a blurred, indecipherable fax that didn’t help at all.

20 The photocopy was poorly produced and almost unreadable.

21 I couldn’t read the doctor’s scrawl.

22 This is a well-written and readable introduction to the subject of linguistics.

23 Have you seen Amis’ latest book? It’s worth reading.

24 The story of their journey makes interesting reading.

25 Her latest book is clever, funny, and well-written – a very good read.

26 Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is a real page-turner.

27 ‘Unputdownable”, raved the literary critic Helen Jewson, ‘I read it at one sitting.’

28 The inclusion of so many figures and statistics make the article virtually unreadable.

29 The book was so badly written that I didn’t get further than the first chapter.