Answer: Books are good sources of knowledge and they actually enlighten us. Reading a book is a really good and helpful way whenever you are bored or stressed out. It is preferable to me reading a book than surfing the internet. Going further, in this way people can develop their imagination and nurture their mind and thinking skills.
Moreover, there is a possibility for someone to change their view about specific things such as religious issues, gender parity, culture and so on and become more open-minded by reading books. For instance, somebody who isn't romantic may change his opinion after reading a book with a romantic story or someone who is narrow-minded and biassed may change their attitude. Finally, it's a good and effective way to practice a foreign language and this is something I did before coming to England.
Her books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and were sold more than million copies so far. John Milton whose poetry has been seen as the perfect poetic expression in the English language for four centuries is also from my country. Agatha Christie who is reputably known throughout the world as the "Queen of Crime" and Samuel Johnson who is known as 'arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history' are only some of the many meritorious English authors.
They might be contemporary writers or might be from past centuries. Answer: To be honest I haven't. My writing skill isn't so good, so if I had decided to do something like that it would have been a moderate work. In fact, I wouldn't want that because I am a perfectionist. In addition, my imagination isn't that vivid to create a story myself so I would jump to the conclusion that I am not the proper person for this activity.
Besides, my favourite types of books are biographies so this is the only plot that I could have written. However, I prefer sharing my personal stories and experiences with my family and friends in verbal form than written form.
Tip: You can also give a semi-negative answer by saying that you haven't written a book but you would like to and give examples and your idea about the story.
You can also say that you have thought about writing a book and refer to its content. Finally, you can say that you have written a book if so give details when you wrote it, what was the story and how you were inspired to write this book. Answer: It is quite different indeed! While reading a book you can imagine the characters and the scenes you are reading about and adjust them to your desires. Everyone makes an image of the main characters' outer appearance, inner traits and so on and personally when I read a book I have a specific actor or actress in my mind.
So, I would say that books give someone the chance to make stories based on their personality. Movies, on the other hand, have some standards. There is the visual element which is absent in books and it can be either good or bad because in some cases watching a movie is much better than reading a book but the opposite can happen as well.
Personally, I have seen movies having read the books before and some of them weren't as good as I expected. Describe a newspaper or a magazine. Describe one of your favourite photographs. Describe a favourite book in your childhood. Talk about a book based on which a film has been made. It can be a religious book or even an academic book.
The bottom line is 'you cannot tell the examiner that you have never read a book'. You have to talk about one even if you need to make things up. Reply Quote Gurpreet 2 years 10 months What should we reply if we don't read books and we get a question for "describe a book"? Reply Quote Ruslan 3 years 3 months Sample answers are obviously inadequate. They are too long to fit in 2 minutes, and even a band 9 speaker doesn't need to be nearly that good at telling convoluted detailed stories.
You just need to show your grammar and vocabulary ranges all the while speaking at length for just 2 minutes, maintaining fluency, and staying reasonably on topic. Sample answers would be more acceptable for writing, although they lack the necessary essay structure to get a high band score for that. Reply Quote Shelly Bardhana 3 years 5 months I don't even understand why they publish so much information.
Short passages are easy to read and we can grab only relevant information. I am afraid to read big one because there is still much more to read Reply Quote Gurwinder Kaur 3 years 7 months Sooooo nice. Reply Quote Dass David 3 years 9 months Hello, the first two samples are really a big passage and it takes more than two minutes.
And then love can be very destructive. Jailed three times for his political activism and subjected to torture in prison. His critics dismiss his writing as New Age drivel, promoting a vague spirituality devoid of rigor. In , Coelho married Christina Oiticica, the artist. Together the couple spends half the year in Rio de Janeiro and the other half in a country house in the Pyrenees Mountains of France.
In , Coelho founded the Paulo Coelho Institute, which provides support to children and the elderly. In a somewhat unusual scheduling ritual, Paulo Coelho allows himself to begin the writing process for a new book only after he has found a white feather in the January of an odd year. As odd as that may sound, it seems to be working. His 26 books have sold more than 65 million copies in at least 59 languages. Just as worlds that Paulo Coelho has lived in and created are linked by common threads, so is my world to his.
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But the general perception is that Coelho writes self-help books wrapped around fables that are easy to read and digest. They are uplifting books with enough empowerment in them to make you feel capable, but light enough to require a second and third subsequent fix to keep the high going.
None of my literature-studying friends in Colombia can take Paulo Coelho seriously, yet the same demographic in America seems to derive inspiration from his work. The bookseller at the cash register told me that his books were kept hidden with Kerouac and Bukowski because they were stolen at a similar rate. Young men who write, she told me, stole Coelho and Bukowski at the same time. Young men who write in America and my mother was a cross section of a Venn diagram I had never expected to find.
The people who come looking for his books are mostly young people who might want self-help but are also looking for a narrative or poetic book. Only 20 copies of the book in Spanish have been sold over the past year in that same store. How many books by Clarice Lispector? The Second Death of Clarice Lispector. Meanwhile, in Colombia we have bookstores like Wilborada that choose not to carry Coelho.
Like Brookline Booksmith, Wilborada is the kind of local bookstore that holds readings, hosts book clubs, and has gathered a loyal customer base that enjoys, and trusts, the tastes of their booksellers. What am I doing here? We live in a modern world. And the fourth day, I started getting used to the idea of walking, and talking to people, and being aware of my surroundings, and learning about my body — but also, start learning about my soul.
So, when I arrived at Santiago de Compostela, it was like a sad moment because it was the end of something that was a turning point in my life, and I did not know what to do from that moment on. A sad moment? Is that what you mean? But what I did not know by then, it was that the real pilgrimage was about to start.
Because I did a physical pilgrimage. When I arrived at Santiago de Compostela, I understood, finally, that I had to make a choice in my life. And the choice would be: I have to fulfill my dream or I have to forget my dream forever.
My dream was to be a writer. I was 40 years old, probably too old to change my path. Even if everybody tells us that nobody can make a living out of writing. I may add something — when I did this pilgrimage in , there were practically no pilgrims.
The road was totally unknown. It was totally unknown. I never heard about this road. So I was an instrument for this road as this road was an instrument for me for changing my life for better.
TIPPETT: It seems to me that really just a core theme that runs through all your writing is life itself as a pilgrimage, writing as a pilgrimage for you. So interesting. And I also do believe that we have this possibility of doing a pilgrimage every single day.
Because a pilgrimage implies in meeting different people, in talking to strangers, in paying attention to the omens, and basically being open to life. And we leave our home to go to work, to go to school, and we have every single day this possibility, this chance of discovering something new.
So the pilgrimage is not for the privileged one who can go to Spain, and to France, and walk this miles, but to people who are open to life.
A pilgrimage, at the end of the day, is basically get rid of things that you are used to and try something new. You talk in one place about the difference between being a builder or a planter, and that a gardener is never released from the demands of the garden. I think that this would be in contradiction with nature because nature is never in peace. So, confrontation is part of life. When we talk about war, this is clear, huh? You have to accept your contradictions, and you have to learn how to live with your contradictions.
Otherwise, you become a block of stone that never changes. They can change, but the only change is decay. So, something that has intrigued me in my life of conversation — and I think it seems like a paradox — that when someone is able to be most particular, articulate about their life, that in those moments, what they say can be most universally heard and felt.
And it seems to me that this paradox is very central to your life of writing and even your success as a writer — the reach of your writing. Who is Paulo Coelho? So, every morning, I find myself a different person. It is the risks that we take every single moment of our day, of a single day. So I think that this contradiction should be accepted. COELHO: Having said that, I mean that learning how to live with our contradictions does not keep us away from the ethic, and respecting our neighbor, and learning about tolerance, and learning about compassion.
These are two very important words today that were totally forgotten. If you have tolerance and compassion, you can go to the battle, in the metaphoric sense, of course, fighting for your dreams without harming anyone. TIPPETT: So you experience and, in some way, embody this reality that, as we wrestle with our contradictions and the hard things that life brings to each of us, those are the breeding grounds of compassion towards others.
That that wrestling, in fact, becomes a breeding ground for compassion. Is that…? At least for me, yes. The answer is yes. Talk to me about what that word, that experience, means for you. How can we understand that?
It is not, and sometimes very easily misunderstood. But if I can define magic, I would say that it is a bridge that allows us to cross from just visible world to this invisible world. But behind my voice, there are emotions. But at the same time, emotions change the world, and the most important one being love.
And a manifestation of love cannot be understood. It can be felt. I am someone in the process of learning also. But one thing that I understood is that, from the moment that I was not scared of manifesting my love, my life changed and changed for better. I had my difficult moments, yes.
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