Geniuses

        

*Great minds from Edingburgh

The Scottish are famous for their friendliness, inventive and hard work. They belong to a small nation but they have largely contributed to mankind with inventions, art, scientific discoveries, literature and art.

  

 Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

Scientist, inventor, engineer

A) Read the following text and decide if the following sentences are TRUE or FALSE. Justify your answers orally.

         ...........1)Alexander Bell was born in Scotland.
         ...........2) He have been working only as a scientist. 
         ...........3) The Bell Telephone Company was not profitable until 1877. 
         ...........4) Alexander particularly disliked his famous patented telephone.
         ...........5) Bell have lived in different continents.

   Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

Short story writer, novelist, journalist and doctor 

B) Choose the right word in the following text.

1)   a)origins             b) immigrants             c) fathers                     d) religion

2)   a) doctor            b) medicine                c) specialist                 d) medication

3)   a) wrote             b) thought                  c) outline                     d) developed 

4)   a) typical            b) world-famous         c) world-unkown         d) accepted

5)   a) writing            b)written                    c) write                      d) wrote

6)   a) late                 b) as soon as              c) soon                       d) fast

7)   a) lonely             b) alone                      c) solitary                   d) sole

8)   a) life                  b) live                        c) alive                       d) lived

9)   a) him                 b) he                         c) himself                    d) his

10)  a) which             b) when                     c) that                        d) where

*Little Heads, Little Geniuses

1) Watch this trailer.

2) Do you know the movie?

3) What kind of talent does the boy have?

4) How would you explain the plot?

5) Have you seen any movie like this before?