My year reading a book from every country in the world

This is a list of key vocabulary and expressions from the video in order of how useful they are. The expressions in italics are additional and cannot be found in the video. The student must choose 6 items from the list to study in the lesson.

Although

Perhaps

Tiny

To seem

Roughly

To end up (somewhere/ (doing) something)

To work (something) out

To get in touch (with someone)

To turn out

A stranger

When it comes to

Narrow

From scratch

To tell (something)

Pretty much 

Remarkable

Little by little 

What/ why/ who etc. on earth?!

To source (something)/ A source

Time and again

A glimpse

To face up to the fact that…

To (not) get a look in

To go to great​/​extreme​/​any etc. lengths

To pick out

15 conversation-provoking questions related to the article.

1. What challenge did Ann Morgan set for herself and why?

2. Why did Ann start a blog in October 2011? How did people respond to it?

3. What do you think Ann learned by completing this challenge?

4. ‘Ann has inspired me! I’m going to do what she did.’ Is this true for you?

5. ‘I would rather visit every country in the world instead of reading a book from each one.’ Is this true for you?

6. ‘I’m reading a very interesting book at the moment.’ Is this true for you?

7. ‘My bookshelves prove that I am a very cultured intelligent person.’ Is this true for you?

8. ‘You can learn just as much from a Netflix series as you can from a book.’ Do you agree?

9. ‘You can’t learn anything about a country by reading a book.’ Do you agree?

10. ‘I wouldn’t know which book to recommend from my country.’ Is this true for you?

11. ‘I only ever read books in my native language.’ Is this true for you?

12. ‘I hated studying literature at school.’ Is this true for you?

13. ‘Some books should be banned.’ Do you agree?

14. ‘Soon, nobody will be buying paper books.’ Do you agree?

15. ‘I love setting myself challenges like Ann did and then trying to complete them.’ Is this true for you?