Sentence Starters & Vocabulary For Video Book Talks

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Sentence Starters & Vocabulary For Video Book Talks
Lan­guage help for your script

1. Hook

Ask a ques­ti­on:

  • “What would you do if you woke up one day in a com­ple­te­ly dif­fe­rent world?”



Use a quote from the book:

  • “As the book says:...”;

  • “One line that stuck with  me was…”



Crea­te a sce­na­rio of the book:

  • “Ima­gi­ne to wake up one day and re­a­li­ze that you are a bug.

That is ex­act­ly what hap­pens in the book ..."



Ad­dress your au­di­ence di­rect­ly:

  • “Do you like sto­ries about un­sol­ved mur­der 

mys­te­ries? Then you’ll love …”;

  • “Have you ever felt like you didn’t be­long? 

The main cha­rac­ter in the book … goes th­rough that and so much more.”

2. In­tro­duc­tion

  • The book I chose to pre­sent is _____ (book title) by _____ (author).

  • This book is a (genre) and was pu­blished in _____(year).

  • "I pi­cked this book be­cau­se ....”

3. Sum­ma­ry of the plot

  • “The story re­vol­ves around _______(main cha­rac­ter), who ______________(main con­flict or goal).”

  • “The book be­gins when (de­scri­be main event that starts the story).”

  • “Th­roug­hout the story, the cha­rac­ters face

(chal­len­ges, con­flicts, obs­ta­cles…).”



Ex­amp­les to de­scri­be cha­rac­ters:

  • “The main cha­rac­ter is (name), who is (role in the book).”

  • “One of the most in­te­resting things about them is …”

  • “The re­la­ti­on­ships bet­ween cha­rac­ter _____ & cha­rac­ter ______ is de­fi­ned by_______”



Ex­amp­les to de­scri­be the­mes & mess­a­ges:

  • “One of the main the­mes in this book is _________”

  • “This book teaches us that ________”

  • “The author ex­plo­res ideas like (love, fri­end­ship, power…)

th­rough (events, cha­rac­ters _________).”

Sentence Starters & Vocabulary For Video Book Talks

4. Per­so­nal re­flec­tion or re­com­men­da­ti­on

  • “My fa­vo­ri­te part of the book was when _____ be­cau­se _____ .”

  • “I re­al­ly en­joy­ed the book be­cau­se it made me feel ______.”

  • “I would re­com­mend this book to ____ (type of rea­der, e.g., fans of mys­te­ries, 

people who love ad­ven­ture, ro­mance etc.) .”

  • “Over­all, I’d rate this book _____ out of five stars) be­cau­se _________ .”

5. Con­clu­si­on

  • “In con­clu­si­on, the book _____ by _______ is a (e.g., pow­er­ful, en­ga­ging, thril­ling) 

book that (brief sum­ma­ry of your thoughts).”

  • “Over­all, ______  is a ________ book that I would re­com­mend be­cau­se _________ .”

  • “All in all, I high­ly re­com­mend this book to an­yo­ne who loves _______ , and I’m sure 

you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.”

Hel­pful vo­ca­bu­la­ry

me­mo­ra­ble

er­in­ne­rungs­wür­dig

emo­ti­o­nal

emo­ti­o­nal, rühr­se­lig

sus­pen­se­ful

span­nend

in­spi­ring

in­spi­rie­rend

re­la­ta­ble

nach­voll­zieh­bar

vivid

leb­haft

ex­ci­ting

auf­re­gend, span­nend

sho­cking

scho­ckie­rend

en­joy­a­ble

un­ter­halt­sam

to de­pict sth.

etw. dar­stel­len

to ex­plo­re sth.

etw. un­ter­su­chen

to de­pict sth.

etw. dar­stel­len

to cen­ter on sth.

sich auf etw. kon­zen­tie­ren/ um etw. zen­trie­ren

to re­vol­ve around

sich um etw. dre­hen (Buch/ Hand­lung)

to chal­len­ge sth.

etw. in Frage stel­len

buil­ding up

etw. auf­bau­en (z.B.

Ge­füh­le) / auf etwas zu­steu­ern (Er­eig­nis)

to cri­ti­ze sth.

etwas kri­ti­sie­ren

to de­mons­tra­te sth.

etw. zei­gen/ de­mons­trie­ren

plot

die Hand­lung

con­tent

der In­halt/ die In­hal­te

set­ting

der Schau­platz (der Hand­lung)

cha­rac­ter/ cha­rac­ters

die Figur/ die Fi­gu­ren

prot­ago­nist

die Haupt­fi­gur

con­flict

Kon­flikt

obs­ta­cle

das Hin­der­nis­se

chal­len­ge

die Her­aus­for­de­rung

jour­ney

die Reise

Sentence Starters & Vocabulary For Video Book Talks

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