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english in a video
this is a textbook and in this lesson
with me you are learning vocabulary
related to different kind of books
not only that you will also be learning
how to talk about books at a bookstore
and if you are a bit lost on the art of
reading and you prefer reading
electronically then don't worry i have
something for you as well
join me in this lesson i'm michelle
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we are going to start this lesson by
discussing some different kind of books
we are not talking about the genres of
books don't be mistaken we are not
talking about autobiographies and
fiction because you will see other
lessons on our channel for the same
topic however i'm going to tell you
types of books
physically like what does a book look
like and what are the different type of
possible books
so the first word that we have on the
board is
can you try pronouncing it it's
pronounced as brochure
i'll write it for you here
it's pronounced as
bro
sure
so a brochure is something like
this
something which has all the information
of a company so this is a let's talk
brochure which has a lot of information
about the company
and you can see inside the company it
tells you all the different types of
courses that it offers so this is how we
advertise it to the people to the
customers who come to us asking about
let's talk and the courses it offers and
all the centers that it has
so this is brochure for you
now let's look at the next word that we
have a pamphlet what is a pamphlet
all right don't worry i have that for
you as well
so as you can see this is a very thin
slip of paper it's not it's not like a
book but it's just one paper and this
paper advertises and promotes a
particular type of course so as you can
see that this pamphlet is about business
english
there could be more pamphlets
this pamphlet is about ielts so you can
have different type of pamphlets
promoting different courses or different
topics that you want to advertise
so pamphlets are
advertising
papers
and you generally give it out for free
to people because you're trying to
advertise and the same applies for
brochure you usually do not ask for
money when you're giving out brochures
or pamphlets because they're purely for
promotional or
advertising purposes
right
so now we have the next one and that is
a textbook this is very common so a
textbook is on a particular subject and
it has a lot of information and a lot of
teaching material on that subject so
textbook is essentially for
teaching purposes
to teach on a particular
topic
and just to let you know
what does this book teach on so this
book is a foundation english english
reader workbook right
and this is the index or the content of
the book which means that this book
contains all of these topics it has
information about all of these topics so
you can use this to learn regularly
and if you're really keen on it then you
can join any of our let's talk centers
and have one of these books for yourself
so that you can also learn beyond the
videos and beyond the classroom
so textbook is purely for teaching
purposes on a particular topic it's
elaborate teaching detailed teaching
now we have the next word with us
almanac so almanac is something that you
find for a particular organization one
that is really large and that is
catering to a number of people
especially students so you usually find
almanac in schools
so almanac is a kind of a book that is
about
a year's calendar it contains all the
details all the all the
uh you know holidays predicted holidays
for a year according to the calendar it
also tells about the events that are
going to come in the year and it has
some writing space as well so an almanac
is based on a calendar
a calendar for holidays and events
because it is following the calendar so
an almanac is usually yearly nature
which means it's produced once in a year
or i'd say sorry it's released once in
the year
the next one that we have is a booklet i
have that for you as well
a booklet uh-huh
so
this is a booklet for you a booklet all
right so have you heard of the word
piglet what is it piglet because it's
like a baby of the pig the same way a
book is a baby a booklet is a baby of
the book it's a smaller book containing
some information not the whole of the
information like in a book it's not
detailed it's very precise so it has
precise information about the textbook
so let's say become an entrepreneur so
like i showed you a book on business
english a pamphlet on business english
this is a booklet on business english
how to become an entrepreneur
with some precise information about the
book
so this one
it has a checklist
for a franchisee setup and it has some
basic details it's not very detailed and
it has some figures and finances about
the possibilities right so this is a
booklet for you let's talk booklet
right
so now we come to
another set of phrases that you can use
when you're going to a bookstore so when
you're going to a bookstore how will you
ask for a book what kind of a book are
you looking for what is the speciality
of the book so we'll essentially look at
adjectives right now
so a bestseller book is a very
successful book a book that most of the
people are buying
so a book that is selling the best
a successful book
a very successful book is called a
bestseller the next one that we have is
a new release what is a new release so a
book that has released recently is
called a new release
recent release
so if you're looking for a new book at
the bookstore you could say that where
is the section for the new release or
you could say that which is the best
seller i'd like to buy the best seller
the next word that we have is a
membership so membership is a noun and
if you need a membership of a particular
library this means that you want to be a
member or a part of the organization so
that you can continuously receive
subscriptions from them subscriptions
are like you know you subscribe to a
magazine or you subscribe to a journal
and you receive that on regular
intervals it could be over a period of
months like in three months you receive
a magazine or you receive a journal in
every two weeks
so
membership is to become
a part of an organization
and subscription as i told you is to
receive something at regular intervals
to receive
a book
or a magazine
at regular intervals
and what about reserving reserving is
when you want to take a book away which
means taking away a book like when you
go to the macd you take away a burger
the same way you can take away a book
from the library however
here you have must return the book at
the library because there are others who
would also like to read the book so
reserving is to take away a book for a
particular span of time
so reserve means to take a book away and
to get it back as soon as possible
the next word that we have here is an
ebook like i told you for all of you who
do not get into reading a hard copy and
love to read a book on the
on a particular device maybe that might
be a kindle or that might be a tab for
you
so ebook is when you download an
electronic book and you can have it in
soft copy
so soft copy of a book is called an
ebook
you will not have to turn pages you
don't have to make that effort you can
simply scroll and read the ebook
the next one that i have for you is epub
which is very similar to the ebook just
like the ebook it this is also an ebook
but the difference is that epub is
password protected it's encrypted and
you cannot copy the data and share it
anywhere else however for ebook you
can't share it elsewhere without a
password without any encryption
so epub is password protected
you all many of you might already be
using the kindle kindle is a device
which is created by the amazon and this
is almost like a tab where you can have
all the books and you can read your
ebooks or your epubs
reading device
unlike the tab this is very very
specifically for reading
the last one that i have is audio books
which is my personal favorite i love
listening to audio books because these
are books that you can listen and you
don't need to read so you can convert
your ebooks into audio books and listen
to them instead of reading them
listening books
with this we come to an end of this
lesson and after the video you have a
link to the free book that i promised in
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michelle signing off bye