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WorksheetsPulse 2: Mobile Phone Novel
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Was Dream Come True about true experiences?
A few years ago, a 19-year-old Japanese girl started writing a novel about her life in a small town. She finished it in just three weeks and gave it the title Dreams Come True.
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Did readers like Dreams Come True?
Akiko wasn't an experienced writer and didn't expect anyone to be interested in her tale. Yet when it came out a few months later, the romantic novel was a great success. It sold over 200,000 copies.
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Did the author write the novel on her computer?
It's an incredible story. The most amazing thing about it, though, is the fact that Akiko wrote the novel on her mobile phone! As she wrote, she posted it, chapter by chapter, on a website where readers could download it immediately.
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Is the language in a mobile phone novel always correct?
Akiko was one of the first of a new generation of novelists in Japan who write novels as if they are writing a text message. They write in a simple, chatty style and use a lot of abbreviations and 'emoticons'. They know how to tell a good story, but they don't worry too much about grammar and spelling.
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Do mobile phone novels sometimes become paper books?
Some people were critical of mobile phone novels at first. They thought they were a bad influence on teenage girls, who preferred them to 'proper' literature. However, they are now popular with people of all ages. Many of the best-selling paperback books in Japan were originally mobile phone novels.
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A few years ago, a 19-year-old Japanese girl started writing a novel about her life in a small town. She finished it in just three weeks and gave it the title Dreams Come True.
Akiko wrote her novel very....
slowly.
quickly.
carefully.
seriously.
A few years ago, a 19-year-old Japanese girl started writing a novel about her life in a small town. She finished it in just three weeks and gave it the title Dreams Come True. Akiko wasn't an experienced writer and didn't expect anyone to be interested in her tale.
Akiko ... experience of writing books.
had
didn't have
It's an incredible story. The most amazing thing about it, though, is the fact that Akiko wrote the novel on her mobile phone! As she wrote, she posted it, chapter by chapter, on a website where readers could download it immediately.
People were first able to read Dreams Come True on...
the internet.
their mobile phones.
Mobile phone novelists write....
the way people speak.
in long sentences.
In Japan, mobile phone novels are...
very successful.
only read by teenage girls.
