watch this video and learn three types of English books that beginners and
pre-intermediate speakers need to read to improve their English hey friends, teacher
Prix here to help you talk to anyone anywhere anytime in English first
of all thank you so much for joining I hope you enjoy this video I hope you
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now the first type of book that you need to read as a beginner or as a pre
intermediate speaker is children's books that's the type of book you need to be
reading if you are a beginner or if you are a pre intermediate speaker
children's books are very simple they have very basic phrases very basic
stories they have a lot of pictures images that will help you better
understand this story another important thing they don't have many characters
not many people participate the story characters so it's
easy for you to remember the people to remember the names to remember the
characters because there are only 1 2 3 characters there are not many characters
so it's easier the grammar is also very simple some books are only in the simple
present some books focus on the simple past some books focus on the future it
depends on the book but in general children books are very easy to
understand so if you are a beginner this is the book for you to read because you
will remember they story more easily and if you are a pre intermediate this is a
good book too if you are starting to read in English
I have many pre intermediate clients that look for my consult and help and
suggestions and when I suggest reading they come to me and say Priscilla I have
never read in English where do I start children's books if you start with a
very difficult book you will feel demotivated and you will not finish the
book so start slow test your level and then you can move forward the second
type of book that you should read as a pre intermediate speaker as a beginner
is biographies short biography books what is a biography it is the story of a
person's life okay so today there are biographies about Obama that are
biographies about Mother Teresa Nelson Mandela there are so many people in this
world so many important people that have contributed to this world that have
found many important things discovered many important things and consequently
are many biographies so this is a very good book for you to read a very good
type of book for you to read as a beginner or as a pre intermediate
speaker now what is very important if you decide to read a biography check if
it's appropriate for your level Priscilla I'm a beginner can I read a
200-page biography book no obviously not when I'm talking about biographies if
you are a beginner you need to find a graded books what is a graded book I
talked about this in a previous video graded books are books that are for
different levels they are appropriate for beginners intermediate speakers
advanced speakers you check the level of the book that's why this book is called
graded reader graded book okay so today there are many publishers that publish
graded reader books for beginners for English learners so check your level and
why biography because in biographies you learn a lot of simple pass okay a lot
of simple past and one big problem of beginners and pre-intermediate speakers
is to use simple past and simple present so this is a very good book to show you
context I'm not so worried about the grammar I am worried about the context
you will learn about the person's life about the person's education about the
person's childhood about the person's family about the person's jobs about the
person's dreams about the person's personality look at how many
contextualized subjects you are going to be learning from biographies that's why
it's such a very rich book because it'll be showing you context real-life context
we all talk about our childhood we all talk about our family our jobs our dream
things we have done and in those books you will find a lot of those subjects
that's why biographies are excellent books for pre intermediate speakers
beginners but hey if you are an intermediate speaker and I or
advanced speaker go for it I love reading those books because I learn so
much not only about the people I'm reading about but also about vocabulary
and contextualized grammar structures are you enjoying this video yes how
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book number three adapted stories from movies I love this one because it's a
good way for you to compare now there are many adapted books from movies or
vice versa you know what I mean but what's the idea here the idea is to read
a book from a movie you have already watched so if you watched I don't know
the matrix do you remember the matrix if you have watched the matrix for English
learners there's probably a book about the matrix I don't know I'm not sure
okay but for graded readers they are always
adapting stories from movies for English learners to read so this would be a good
book for you to read if you have watched it if you have seen the movie okay why
Priscilla I already know the story duh
exactly you already know the story so this is a great book for you to read
because now you know a little bit of what's happening so you can focus on the
structures and see how they explain things you can focus on the vocabulary
because you will remember these stories like oh so that's how you say that
in English awesome when you watch a movie the interaction with the language
is very different from when you sit down and read a book that's why I always
recommend my students to do different kinds of activities and reading in
English will help you tell stories many times I have seen clients I have seen
people that don't know how to tell stories in English how to describe
stories maybe it's stories that happened to themselves and books will help you
work on that aspect will help you organize your ideas because the biggest
problem is how to organize it it may sound simple
priscila beginning middle end, duh! but it's not when it comes to doing that in
another language it can get a little bit more difficult a little bit more
challenging so if you read books you will have a context you have a better
preparation to do that in English to speak to tell things and if you think
about it we are always telling a story we are always telling people something
we just don't pay attention but you are a storyteller too so if you read books
telling stories telling people things will become easier because you will
learn how to better organize your sentences your phrases your vocabulary
your story from these three types of books which ones do you think will be
more interesting for you let me know here in the comments other than that
thank you so much and I'll see you next time bye