Методические указания и контрольное задание №5 по английскому языку. Доржиева Г.Б - 19 стр.

                          PART II                                          2. Mr. and Mrs. Yusof from Coventry know all about
                 Additional Texts for Reading                        creating an environment that encourages intellectual
                                                                     development. Mr. Yusof gave up his job to educate their
                               Text I                                children at home. They were encouraged to read books from an
1. Read the title and sub-heading of the text. What do you think     early age and they watch television only occasionally, usually
the main idea of the text will be? Write down the correct letter.    for “educational” programs. Sufiah, the eldest daughter, went to
a) Geniuses are born with a special talent that other people         university when she was 13. Her brother started his university
don’t have.                                                          studies at 12. Their mother said: “You must have the correct
b) Geniuses achieve success though hard work rather than a           environment - the schooling, the family, the support, they must
special talent.                                                      all come together.”
                                                                           3. By comparison with others, such children seem
II. Read the text and answer the question in written form:           incredibly intelligent. But according to Professor Michael
     1. What do Dineshi, the Yusof children and Mozart have in       Howe, a psychologist at Exeter University, they do not have an
        common?                                                      inborn superhuman talent. Their remarkable achievements are
     2. Who is Professor Howe?                                       the result of practice, persistence, and an encouraging
     3. What does the example of Billy Sidis show about              environment. Would these children have achieved so much if
        genius?                                                      their parents hadn't given them so much attention? Professor
     4. Is this statement true or false according to the text?       Howe doesn't think so. The case of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
        “Anyone can be a genius if he or she works hard              seems to support Professor Howe's theory. Mozart was
        enough”. What is your opinion?                               composing music by the age of five, and at six or seven he was
                                                                     giving professional concerts around Europe. Most people
                THE SECRET OF GENIUS                                 believe this was the result of inborn genius. But Professor
   For years people have said that geniuses are born with a          Howe claims that Mozart's childhood compositions are largely
     special talent. New Research challenges that view.              arrangements of other composers' work. Most importantly,
                                                                     according to Professor Howe, his father was an extremely
      1. She looks like any other little girl in her first year at   ambitious music teacher who made his son practice more than
school: a smart uniform, a happy smile and a bag of books. But       three hours a day. By the time he was six, he had probably
Dineshi, a five-year-old from west London is so clever that she      spent 3,500 hours studying music.
seems almost unreal. With an IQ of 160, Dineshi knew the                   4. Are geniuses happy? As a child in the early 1900s,
alphabet, the days of the week and the months of the year when       Billy Sidis was described as “the most remarkable boy in the
she was one and a half. She started reading just before her          United States”. Brilliant at languages, he taught himself Latin at
second birthday and writing just after it. “When she was a baby,     four and could read and speak eight languages when he was six.
I realized she was exceptionally bright,” says Dineshi's mother,     At eleven, he gave a lecture to the University of Harvard
“so I tried to provide an environment to help her develop            Mathematical Club. He was a genius until everything, began to
intellectually. I started giving her lessons and she enjoyed         go wrong. His parents had pushed him to develop his
them.”                                                               exceptional intelligence, but had totally neglected other