Lesson 5, Ex.5a,b

Son/Daughter	I must hurry to the library or I will fail my project in History.
Mother	I will give you a lift to the underground station, and I will pick you up from the library later if you want.
Son/Daughter	That will be great! I am so pressed for time: I have a project to hand in next week but it is still unfinished. Wait a second – I will take my bag.
Mother	And you’d better take a snack. I’ve bought dried fruit and chocolate, it’s on the kitchen table.
Son/Daughter	Yeah, judging by my appetite recently I am going to be hungry.
Mother	I’m sure, you won’t fail the project. History is your favourite at school.
Son/Daughter	And that is why it is going to be my best project so far. Will you help me with the maps?
Mother	With pleasure! Shall I ask Father to give us a helping hand as well?

Lesson 6, Ex.2a

You’ve probably heard that different students learn differently or have different learning styles. It depends on our in-bourn abilities, work we put in, and the way our brain works. The geniuses learn differently as well. Do you know how Albert Einstein learned? He was considered a slow learner – he learned to speak at a late age, and the teachers labelled him as autistic because he seldom paid attention in class. The truth is he was usually daydreaming in class. However, he was a natural musician and he could play the violin well.

We learn about the world using different sources: we look and see, listen and hear, move around, smell and taste things. We also ask questions, try to find logical connections between things, communicate with other people and try to understand ourselves. These different abilities are referred to as intelligences – so can be not just intelligent, but we possess multiple intelligences. This idea was introduced by a Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner. There can be many different intelligences, Gardner listed seven main ones: visual-spatial intelligence – people are "art smart" or "picture smart"; logical-mathematical intelligence – that is "number smart" or "logic smart"; bodily-kinesthetic intelligence – that is "body smart" or "movement smart"; musical-rhythmic intelligence – in that case we are "music smart" or "sound smart". there is also naturalist intelligence, people possessing it are "nature smart" or "environment smart"; intrapersonal intelligence – we are "self smart" or "introspection smart"; interpersonal intelligence – those people are "group smart" or "people smart" and, finally, verbal-linguistic intelligence – we are "word smart" or "book smart". Every person is unique and has his or her own combination of intelligences.

Lesson 6, Ex.2d

Knowing your strong and weak intelligences can help you in many ways. First of all, it will help to determine what is the best way for you to study, that is what helps you and makes remembering things easier. Secondly, you know what intelligence you should develop – we should teach ourselves, our brain to use all the power we have. Remember that talented people are talented in everything. Don’t you think it’s because all there intelligences are active? And the last but not the list: knowing your intelligence can help you to decide what career to choose.

So, let’s find out which of the seven intelligences you possess.

If you are strong in visual-spatial intelligence you tend to think in images and pictures. You probably like to draw, paint, and make interesting designs and patterns, and work with clay, colored markers, construction paper, and fabric. Many who are picture smart love to work jigsaw puzzles, read maps and find their way around new places. You probably have definite opinions about colors that go together well, textures that are appropriate and pleasing, and how a room should be decorated. And, you are likely excellent at performing tasks that require “seeing with the mind’s eyes,” such as visualizing, pretending, imagining, and forming mental images.

If you happen to be a number or logic smart person, you tend to think more conceptually and abstractly and are often able to see patterns and relationships that others miss. You probably like to conduct experiments, to solve puzzles and other problems, analyze circumstances and people’s behavior. You most likely enjoy working with numbers and mathematical formulas and operations, and you love the challenge of a complex problem to solve. You are probably systematic and organized, and you always have a logical argument for what you are doing or thinking at any given time.

If intrapersonal intelligence is one of your strong points you may like to work alone and sometimes you may shy away from others. You are probably self-reflective and self-aware and thus you tend to be in tune with your inner feelings, values, beliefs, and thinking processes. You frequently have creative wisdom and insight, are highly intuitive, and you are inner motivated rather than needing external rewards to keep you going. You are often strong-willed, self-confident, and have definite, well-thought out opinions on almost any problem. Other people will often come to you for advice and counsel.

If you are body or movement smart, you like physical movement, dancing, making and inventing things with your hands, and role-playing. You probably communicate well through body language and other physical gestures. You can often perform a task much better after seeing someone else do it first and then mimicking their actions. You probably like physical games of all kinds and you like to demonstrate how to do something for someone else. You may find it difficult to sit still for long periods of time and are easily bored or distracted if you are not actively involved in what is going on around you.

If you are strong in musical-rhythmic intelligence area you are likely to have a love of music and rhythmic patterns. You are probably very sensitive to sounds in the environment: rain on the roof, varying traffic patterns. You may study and work better with music in the background. You can often reproduce a melody or rhythmic pattern after hearing it only once. Various sounds, tones, and rhythms may have a visible effect on you. You probably like to create music and you enjoy listening to a wide variety of music. You may be skilled at mimicking sounds, language accents, and others’ speech patterns, and you can probably readily recognize different musical instruments in a composition.

If the naturalist intelligence is one of your strengths you have a profound love for the outdoors, animals, plants, and almost any natural object. You are probably fascinated by and affected by such things as the weather, changing leaves in the fall, the sound of the wind, the warm sun or lack thereof, or an insect in the room. At a young age you were likely nature collectors, adding such things as bugs, rocks, leaves, seashells, sticks, and so on to your collections. You probably brought home all manner and kinds of stray animals and today you may have several pets and want more. You tend to have a natural liking and respect for all living beings.

If verbal-linguistic is a strong intelligence for you, you have highly developed skills for reading, speaking, and writing and you tend to think in words. You probably like various kinds of literature, playing word games, making up poetry and stories, getting into involved discussions with other people, debating, formal speaking, creative writing, and telling jokes. You are likely precise in expressing yourself and irritated when others are not! You love learning new words, you do well with written assignments, and your comprehension of anything you read is high.

If you possess interpersonal intelligence, this person-to-person way of knowing is more developed in you, you learn through personal interactions. You probably have lots of friends, show a great deal of empathy for other people and exhibit a deep understanding of other points of view. You probably love team activities of all kinds and are a good team member – you “pull your own weight” and often much more! You are sensitive to other people’s feelings and ideas, and are good at building your ideas on others’ thoughts. You are also probably skilled in conflict resolution, mediation, and finding compromise when people are in radical opposition to each other.