Engineering MOSAIC. Мантатова С.С - 20 стр.

UNIT XV                                                                        have the correct environment - the schooling, the family, the support,
The secret of genius                                                           they must all come together.”
Before you start                                                                     3. Are geniuses happy? As a child in the early 1900s, Billy
1. Choose one of the following statements you think is the main idea           Sidis was described as “the most remarkable boy in the United
of the text:                                                                   States”. Brilliant at languages, he taught himself Latin at four and
a) Geniuses are born with a special talent that other people don’t             could read and speak eight languages when he was six. At eleven, he
have.                                                                          gave a lecture to the University of Harvard Mathematical Club. He
b) Geniuses achieve success though hard work rather than a special             was a genius until everything began to go wrong. His parents had
talent.                                                                        pushed him to develop his exceptional intelligence, but had totally
c) Geniuses are 50%of talent and 50% of hard labor.                            neglected other important skills. For example, Sidis did not know
                                                                               how to dress himself properly even by the time he was an adolescent.
Reading                                                                        Finally, he suffered a breakdown.
2. Read the text and answer the questions below:                                     4. They are bright, but they lack the drive to get on: motivation.
    1. What do Dineshi, the Yusof children and Mozart have in                  Thomas Edison, the inventor of electric light, said genius was 99%
       common?                                                                 perspiration, 1% inspiration.
    2. What does the example of Billy Sidis show about genius?
    3. What do you think is this statement true or false according to          Speaking
       the text? “Anyone can be a genius if he or she works hard               3. Read the article again and decide if the statements below are true
       enough”.                                                                (T), false (F) or there is no information (NI):
                        The secret of genius                                      1. Dineshi had an IQ of 160 when he was 10.
      1. She looks like any other little girl in her first year at school: a      2. The Yusofs think that the correct schooling, the family and
smart uniform, a happy smile and a bag of books. But Dineshi, a five-                the support help to become a genius.
year-old from west London is so clever that she seems almost unreal.              3. Most people believe that incredible abilities are inborn.
Dineshi knew the alphabet, the days of the week and the months of                 4. It took many years for Thomas Edison to develop a light bulb,
the year when she was one and a half. She started reading just before                with actually worked.
her second birthday and writing just after it. “When she was a baby, I
realized she was exceptionally bright,” says Dineshi's mother, “so I           Writing
tried to provide an environment to help her develop intellectually. I          4. Write out from the box at least 10 personality adjectives that
started giving her lessons and she enjoyed them.”                              describe a genius. Discuss with your partner and prove that they
      2. Mr. and Mrs. Yusof from Coventry know all about creating              really suit for a genius.
an environment that encourages intellectual development. Mr. Yusof
gave up his job to educate their children at home. They were                     happy strong clever pleasant bright unreliable encouraged
encouraged to read books from an early age and they watch television               depressed remarkable lazy persistent relaxed ambitious
only occasionally, usually for “educational” programs. Sufiah, the                unstable skillful anxious motivated weak lucky humble
eldest daughter, went to university when she was 13. Her brother
started his university studies at 12. Their mother said: “You must