Стр.65 Unit 7 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 8 класс
The machine of flying fire will trouble ... the great chief.’ Nostradamus, The Centuries published 1568. LISTENING 1 Work in pairs.
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Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Вербицкая, Гаярделли, Редли 8 класс, Вентана-Граф:
The machine of flying fire will trouble ... the great chief.’
Nostradamus, The Centuries published 1568.
LISTENING
1 Work in pairs. You’re going to hear the story of Nostradamus. Do you know anything about him? Answer the questions.
In what century did Nostradamus live?
What is he famous for?
2 Read the gapped text and decide what kind of information you need to listen for to complete each gap (1-7).
A date/year
A number
A noun
An adjective
The Life of Nostradamus
His real name was Michel de Nostredame. Nostradamus was born in 11503 in southern France. He had 2 four brothers. As a boy he was interested in maths and astrology, but finally decided to study 3 Medicine at Montpellier University. He completed his studies in 4 1525 and married a woman from a 5 rich family. They had 6 two children. He started making his famous predictions when he was 7 47 years old.
3 T055 Listen to Part 1 of the recording and complete the text in Exercise 2. Don’t worry if you don’t complete all the gaps at once.
Текст аудирования:
Presenter: ‘The machine of flying fire will trouble the great chief. Those are the words of Nostradamus, written over 500 years ago. Some people think that with those words he was predicting the attack on the World Trade Centre. So, who was Nostradamus and should we believe his predictions? With me in the studio is Mary Bolton, Reader in History at West Thames University.
Mary Bolton: Hello.
Presenter: So, Mary, first of all, how much do we know about Nostradamus’s life?
Mary Bolton: Well, certainly not everything. We do know that his real name was Michel de Nostredame and he was born in 1503 in Southern France. He came from quite a large family, he had four brothers, and they were quite rich. As a young man, Michel studied maths and astrology. Later he studied medicine at Montpellier University and he finished his studies in 1525. He married a woman from a rich family and had two children. He began writing his books of predictions when he was 47.
Presenter: So, Mary, tell me how...
4 T055 Did you complete all the information? Listen again to complete the missing information.
5 In pairs, put the advice in Train Your Brain in the correct order. Look at Exercises 2-4 to help you.
TRAIN YOUR BRAIN
Listening skills
Finding specific information
a Mark or underline any gaps that you didn’t hear the first time. Then listen again.
b Look at the gaps in the table or text and decide what kind of information is missing –dates, names, places, numbers.
C Listen and try and complete the missing information. Don’t panic if you don’t hear everything the first time.
6 T056 Use Train Your Brain before you listen to Part 2. Then listen and check.
The Books of Nostradamus
To begin with, Nostradamus started making predictions about the next 1 twelve months. He published his first almanac in 2 1550. These almanacs were very 3 popular so Nostradamus decided to make predictions for several centuries into the future. He wrote in several different languages, French, Latin, Greek and 4 Italian. He needed 5 fourteen years to finish his work.
Nostradamus died in 6 1566 and the finished book was published 7 two years after his death.
7 T057 Listen to Part 3. Choose the sentence which best summarises Mary’s views.
a Nostradamus was wrong because he only wrote negative predictions.
b The predictions are interesting, but I don’t really believe in them.
с Nostradamus correctly predicted events that really happened, such as wars and revolutions.
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Presenter: So, Mary, what kind of things did he predict?
Mary Bolton: Nostradamus seemed to be most interested in rather negative things ... catastrophes and wars especially.
Presenter: Of course, one of the reasons Nostradamus is so popular even today is that some people think
that some of his predictions are true and are even happening today.
Mary Bolton: That’s right. Some people think that Nostradamus predicted the French Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, Hitler, the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and, as you said earlier, the attack on the World Trade Centre. Presenter: Well... did he?
Mary Bolton: Well, one problem is that his texts are actually very difficult to read. Theytaskre not written in a Logical order and they are full of strange names, even anagrams and metaphors, so you can find anything you want to in them. The other thing is that Nostradamus wrote mostly about death and
unhappiness. It’s a sad fact, but most of human history is about death and unhappiness. So again it’s easy to fit his predictions to anything really. Presenter: So, Mary, you’re not convinced.
Mary Bolton: They’re fascinating books. But no ... I don’t believe them.
8 Work in pairs. Student A, look at page 114. Student B, look at page 115.
Project idea
Working in small groups, discuss the future of your school/town/city/region/our country in the next ten years. Make posters with predictions and pictures ‘Our... in 20...’.