33. Make two questions: use phrases from each group. Ask other students your questions.

    1 group When did you first ……? How long ago ……..? Last year, ……..? How often did you …….? When was the last time ……?

    2 group Have you ever ….? Have you …… today? What …… lately? Have you ………. since? How long have you …… ?

34. This year's winner is being intervied by a journalist.

Student A

You have just won the Brain of Ukraine contest for the fifth time running. You are being intervied by a journalist about how you have managed to acquire so much knowledge. You will also be asked for advice for young hopefuls.

Student B

You are a journalist who is interviewing Student A about his/her repeated successes in the Brain of Ukraine contest. You are sure that he/she has some special secret of being the first these five times. You also ask him/her for advice for young contenders who are going to participate in such future contests.

LISTENING

35. You are going to listen to the part of a lecture on iq.

Decide whether the facts from the lecture are true or false.

1. British psychologist Alfred Binet is the author of the first IQ test. F

2. The first IQ tests measured children’s intellectual development. T

3. The term intelligence quotient was coined by a German scientist. T

4. When defining IQ of a person according to the formula, the real age of the person wasn’t taken into consideration. F

5. The process of mental development stops at the age of 16. T

6. According to the Wechsler scale, an average IQ test score is 100 points. T

7. Geniuses are people with IQ more than 175 points. F

36. Listen again and complete the sentences with information from the lecture.

1. To become a Mensa member you should have an IQ of at least ………(130)

2. The first intelligence tests were created to measure ……….. (general knowledge)

3. The tasks in the Binet and Simon tests were adapted to ………. (different age groups)

4. According to the Wechsler scale, results below ………….. (85) mean low intelligence.

5. Mensa gathers the most intelligent ………. (2%) of the population.

WRITING

37. Choose any 5 phrases from exercise 16 and use them in your own sentences.

38. Choose any 2 quotations from exercise 3 (warm-up section) and comment on them (40-70 words each).

39. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Student A – sentences 1-4, Student B – sentences 5-8, then check each other and translate them back into English. Student A – sentences 5-8, Student B – sentences 1-4.

1. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt." Bertrand Russell

2. "The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it." Daniel Webster

3. Research carried out in Sweden indicated that people whose intelligence quotient amounts to over 115 points have a greater chance to attain the age of seventy-six.

4. Leonardo da Vinci, whose IQ was estimated for 220, is hailed the most intelligent person in the history of humankind.

5. Albeit the modern IQ tests claim to calculate agility of 13 main abilities − visual apprehension, spatial apprehension, arithmetic, logic, general knowledge, spelling, rote utilization, intuition, short term memory, geometry, algebra, vocabulary and computational speed - there is a strong bias towards mathematical comprehension.

6. Mensa has three stated purposes: to identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity, to encourage research in the nature, characteristics and uses of intelligence, and to promote stimulating intellectual and social opportunities for its members.

7. Genius is a combination of three 'I's: intellect, imagination and intuition. Every genius is partially a mystic at heart. With a high IQ, you might be a computer whiz.

8. In fact, many standard IQ tests take into account only three factors: mathematics, logic and general knowledge.

9. "Common sense is as rare as genius." Ralph Waldo Emerson