Стр.19 Unit 2 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 11 класс

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LISTENING AND VOCABULARY

1 Complete the word web with the words and phrases from the box. Use a dictionary to help you.

brainy; brainwave; brainwash; brainbox; be the brains behind; brainless; pick someonetasks brains; brain dead; use your brain; brainstorm

Verbs

1 brainwash

2 brainstorm

Nouns

1 brainwave

2 brainbox

Adjectives

1 brainy

2 brainless

3 brain dead

Idioms

1 be the brains behind

2 pick someone’s brains

3 use your brain

2 Complete the sentences with the correct expressions from Exercise 1.

1 Lettasks get together and brainstorm ideas for our next project.

2 My brothertasks the brainy one, but Itaskm better-looking!

3 If you keep watching TV all the time, youtaskll end up being brain dead.

4 Bob Geldof was the brains behind Live Aid and Live 8.

5 Itaskve just had a brainwave! Lettasks go to Prague for the weekend!

6 Advertisements brainwash us into buying things we dontaskt need.

7 Dad, I cantaskt do my homework. Can I pick your brains?

8 You just went through a red light, Dan! That was a brainless thing to do.

9 Martintasks the brainbox of the class. He always gets top marks.

10 You had to use your brain to do this exercise!

3 How would you describe a genius? Write your definition and compare ideas in small groups.

4 In pairs, look at the photos and answer the questions.

1 What do you know about these people?

2 What was extraordinary about them?

3 Which of them was a genius, do you think? Why?

4 Who would you consider to be a tasktwenty-first-century geniustask? Why?

1 Virginia Woolf

2 Mahatma Gandhi

3 Sigmund Freud

4 Bob Marley

5 Albert Einstein

5 Below there are four types of geniuses. In pairs, discuss who/what they might be like. Then listen to Part 1 of a radio programme and check.

the master; the maker; the introspector; the influencer

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Part 1

Presenter: Good evening, and welcome! Tonight we’ve got educational psychologist, Dr Helen Morton, in the studio. We’ll be discussing the work of Dr Howard Gardner and his theories of ‘genius’. Sounds fun! Hello, Dr Morton. Thanks for joining us tonight.

Dr Morton: Hi, Harriet. Nice to be here.

Presenter: So fi rst of all, tell us something about Dr Gardner …

Dr Morton: Well, in his earlier work, he examined what ‘intelligence’ was. He worked out that there isn’t only one way of being ‘brainy’ or ‘intelligent’. It’s not just about academic brilliance, passing exams etc. I think we’ve all been a bit brainwashed about that.

Presenter: … and ended up ‘brain dead’ because of it!

Dr Morton: Right! Anyway, he worked out that the brain is ‘intelligent’ in several different ways, like with language, music, people and so on. So basically, we’re good at different things, and have to build on our strengths, our different intelligences, not just one.

Presenter: Right, so this led to his theories of ‘genius’?

Dr Morton: Well yes — I suppose it did. He called it being ‘extraordinary’. In fact he wrote a book called Extraordinary Minds, about four remarkable people.

Presenter: Why only four?

Dr Morton: Well, apparently, there are four types.

Presenter: Which are …?

Dr Morton: Well, there’s the master, the maker, the introspector and the influencer. Dr Gardner used Mozart as an example of a ‘master’. Someone who did brilliantly in a certain fi eld — in this case, music. Mozart didn’t want to do new stuff — he just wanted to create marvellous music. Not like Freud, who’s a ‘maker’. Freud was always trying to create something new — and finally he did … as you know, he’s the brains behind psychoanalysis! He was more like a musician who creates completely new types of music — like Bob Marley, or rappers in our times.

Presenter: OK, so there’s a master and a maker. And the other two?

Dr Morton: Well, the other two are to do with people. One is the ‘introspector’ — someone who looks really deeply inside themselves, and tries to understand people. So Gardner chose Virginia Woolf, the novelist. She didn’t just think about what being a woman was like at the beginning of the twentieth century. She thought about what ‘being conscious’ is like, what it means to be conscious of something.

Presenter: Yes, like in her great book, Mrs Dalloway?

Dr Morton: Exactly. And the last person, this time involved with other human beings, is Gandhi. He’s an ‘influencer’ — because he tried to change the beliefs and actions of millions of people, first in South Africa, then in India. In the end, he infl uenced people and politics all over the world. We couldn’t have had Nelson Mandela, for example, without Gandhi.

Presenter: Fascinating … I never realised that …

6 T010 Listen to Part 1 again and choose the correct answers (a-d).

1 Dr Gardner thinks

a academic work is the most important.

b everybody has different strengths.

c exams make people brain dead.

d we are all intelligent in one way.

2 Mozart was a taskmastertask because he

a was a genius.

b created a new kind of music.

c wasntaskt like Freud.

d was brilliant at what he did.

3 Freud was a taskmakertask because he

a was a musician.

b created many new things.

c developed a completely new field.

d was a psychoanalyst.

4 Virginia Woolf

a wrote about introspective people.

b was very self-conscious.

c was like Mrs Dalloway.

d worked on understanding people.

5 Gandhi

a tried to influence Nelson Mandela.

b wasntaskt interested in other people.

c changed the way people thought.

d didntaskt affect people in India.

7 T011 Before you listen to Part 2 of the programme, decide if the statements are true or false, and why. Then listen and check.

1 A genius is made by ambition, luck and the time they live in.

2 When Einstein was born, physicists were confident about their subject.

3 Einstein was able to think in terms of both space and music.

4 In general, people usually want to learn from their problems.

5 Extraordinary people spend a lot of time reflecting.

6 It doesntaskt take them long to work out the answers to problems.

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Part 2

Presenter: So what else does Dr Gardner say about being a genius? Are they born or made?

Dr Morton: He thinks they’re made — partly by their ambition, partly by their times, the time they’re born. Partly by luck! And partly by the stage their particular field of interest is at — this depends a lot on when they’re born of course.

Presenter: Like Albert Einstein for example?

Dr Morton: Yes! Einstein came at exactly the right time, when people were questioning the old laws of physics. He could see things in a new way, perhaps because of his particular ‘intelligences’. Apparently, he could think spatially as well as mathematically!

Presenter: So he could picture things in his head, not just in numbers?

Dr Morton: Yes, that was it — exactly.

Presenter: Could you tell us a bit about what we ordinary people can learn from these extraordinary people?

Dr Morton: Well, there are three things. For example, we all have things that go wrong in our lives. Sometimes we just give up or ignore them. But extraordinary people don’t — what they do is, they say, well, what can I learn from this?

Presenter: That’s a very positive way of looking at life.

Dr Morton: Right! And they also do a lot of reflecting. Things like thinking about what you’re doing, taking walks, keeping journals — anything that allows you to have a distance from things. And the third lesson is … to work out what your strengths are, and really push them.

Presenter: And a lot of hard work too?

Dr Morton: Oh yes … that’s another thing about extraordinary people. They’re not afraid to spend up to ten years mastering something, and then working for ten more years on a problem …

Presenter: Wow! So there seems to be a lot to learn from these people…

8 Look back at Exercises 3 and 4. In groups, discuss the questions.

• How similar/different was your definition of a genius to Dr Gardnertasks?

• What can you add to your answers in Exercise 4, using the information from the radio programme?