Стр.24 Unit 3 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 8 класс

Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Вербицкая, Гаярделли, Редли 8 класс, Вентана-Граф: READING
1 Match the people below with pictures A-D on page 25. What were they famous for? Use the correct form of the verbs to complete the sentences about them. One of the verbs can be used twice.
propose
invent
paint
write
1 Vladimir Mayakovsky poetry.
2 Leonardo da Vinci the Mona Lisa.
3 Agatha Christie crime novels.
4 Albert Einstein the theory of relativity.
2 Look at the pictures again and read the title of the text. You may use the vocabulary at the end of the book. What do you think the text is about?
3 Read the first paragraph. What do you think the text is about now?
A unhappy children
b people who had problems at school
c the effects of bad education
d people who became successful after they finished school
4 Read the last paragraph only. Do you need to change your answer to Exercise 3?
5 Look at Exercises 2-4 and complete points a-d in Train Your Brain.
TRAIN YOUR BRAIN Reading skills
Predicting
You can make a text easier to understand by predicting what it is going to be about before you read it. Always:
a look at the pictures.
b read the title.
c read the first paragraph of the text.
d read the last paragraph of the text.
A gift or a curse?
1 They had difficulties learning to read and to write. Their classmates laughed at them, their teachers often thought they were stupid and lazy, their parents despaired. Most of them hated to go to school and wanted to drop out of school as soon as possible. In short, they had unhappy school years.
2 Some of the world’s greatest composers, writers and inventors had an unpleasant time at school like this. Later, when they became successful, nobody was more surprised than their old classmates. Were these people stupid? No, of I course not.
3 Dyslexia is a lifelong challenge that people are born with. It means that people have problems with reading, writing, spelling and sometimes with emorizing things. Dyslexia is not a sign of poor intelligence or laziness. Nor is it the result of poor instruction. Children and adults with dyslexia simply process and interpret information differently. Dyslexia occurs among people of all economic and ethnic backgrounds. Often more than one member of a family has it. Statistically, about 15 percent of people are dyslexic, but not all of them realise it.
4 Some experts think, however, that dyslexic people are highly creative and intuitive because their brain works differently. A good example is Vladimir Mayakovsky, a renowned Russian and Soviet poet, who had trouble with commas and full stops but created his own revolution in poetry. He changed the very idea of poetry by introducing new subjects, new vocabulary and new rhythms.
5 Some people with dyslexia discover they have special, hidden talents, but only when they are older. A good example is Agatha Christie, one of the most successful writers in history – two billion books published in 44 languages! At school she had problems with writing and often got bad marks for essays. Her parents were disappointed and wanted Agatha to leave school early. She only started writing because her older sister said she couldn’t do it! And even when she was already a famous crime writer, she sometimes felt embarrassed because she still couldn’t spell.
6 There is a long list of people like Vladimir Mayakovsky and Agatha Christie, writers and poets, inventors and artists, actors and politicians. Hans Christian Andersen, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves – to name just a few. These important and creative people had problems with reading and writing when they were young. Of course, that doesn’t mean that if you have dyslexia, you will become a genius in time, but it shows that dyslexia may be a gift and not a curse.
*Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.

Ответ

1. Vladimir Mayakovsky wrote poetry.
2. Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.
3. Agatha Christie wrote crime novels.
4. Albert Einstein proposed the theory of relativity.

2. The text is about people who had problems at school but became successful later.

3. d people who became successful after they finished school

4. No, you don’t need to change your answer.

5.
a) look at the pictures
b) read the title
c) read the first paragraph of the text
d) read the last paragraph of the text

Train Your Brain: Before reading, it helps to predict what the text will be about by looking at the pictures, the title, the first paragraph and the last paragraph.