Стр.19 Unit 2 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 11 класс

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 someone’s brains; brain dead; use your brain; brainstorm
2. Complete the sentences with the correct expressions from Exercise 1.
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 ‘twenty-first-century genius’? 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
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 ‘master’ because he
   
   a was a genius.
   
   b created a new kind of music.
   
   c wasn’t like Freud.
   
   d was brilliant at what he did.
   
   3 Freud was a ‘maker’ 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 wasn’t interested in other people.
   
   c changed the way people thought.
   
   d didn’t 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 doesn’t take them long to work out the answers to problems.
8. Look back at Exercises 3 and 4. In groups, discuss the questions.
   
   • How similar/different was your definition of a genius to Dr Gardner’s?
   
   • What can you add to your answers in Exercise 4, using the information from the radio programme?