Стр.65 Unit 7 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 8 класс

LISTENING

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?

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 ______ (1) in southern France. He had ______ (2) brothers. As a boy he was interested in maths and astrology, but finally decided to study ______ (3) at Montpellier University. He completed his studies in ______ (4) and married a woman from a ______ (5) family. They had ______ (6) children. He started making his famous predictions when he was ______ (7) years old.

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.

T055 Did you complete all the information? Listen again to complete the missing information.

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.

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) months. He published his first almanac in ______ (2). These almanacs were very ______ (3), so Nostradamus decided to make predictions for several centuries into the future. He wrote in several different languages, French, Latin, Greek and ______ (4). He needed ______ (5) years to finish his work. Nostradamus died in ______ (6) and the finished book was published ______ (7) years after his death.

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.

c) Nostradamus correctly predicted events that really happened, such as wars and revolutions.

Work in pairs. Student A, look at page 114. Student B, look at page 115.

Student A

Look at the predictions and decide if any of them might come true in our country in the next thirty years. Then discuss your ideas with your partner. Use the Speak Out on page 61 to help you.

• The school-leaving examination will become more difficult.
• People will stop eating traditional national dishes.
• A film/pop/sports star will become your country’s leader.
• More people will move from the country to the cities.

Student B

Look at the predictions and decide if any of them might come true in our country in the next thirty years. Then discuss your ideas with your partner. Use the Speak Out on page 61 to help you.

• More people will choose to live or work in the countryside.
• People won’t live in blocks of flats any more.
• More English words will enter the language.
• The government will prohibit ultra-realistic computer games.

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…’.