Even if students do not understand everything perfectly, the fact of reading a foreign work in this way approximates more closely to their experience of reading in the own language. Literature i in a sense taken out of the classroom context and replaced into what we feel is its more natural" setting. The beginning activities suggested in this chapter tend therefore to be rather time-consuming. We hope that teachers will find, as we have, that they are nevertheless worthwhile because they build motivation and foster a love of reading.