1. Translate from English into Russian the following words and phrases and find in the text or make up your own sentences with the phrases

difficulty, extreme difficulty, great difficulty, difficulty in certain aspects of learning, to have great difficulty with foreign languages, to encounter extreme difficulty; poor ability, poor reading ability, special ability in some academic subject, language disabilities, facility with arithmetic, to have little facility, to suffer from severe dyslexia, thinking process, to think in words, to express something in words, to formulate each sentence silently, to communicate badly through writing, ways of learning, appropriate ways of learning, to find appropriate ways of learning, a failure, initial failures, to overcome one’s initial failures; to achieve good grades in school.

2. Find in the text English equivalents to the following Russian phrases

выдающиеся люди, тяжелая степень дизлексии, трудности в обу­чении чтению, низкий уровень способностей к математике, недоста­точные способности к обучению, процесс мышления, выразить мысль словами, преодолевать неудачи, способы обучения, общаться, доби­ваться хороших успехов в школе

П1. Put in the missing prepositions

11 Some of the world’s most distinguished people had unusual difficulty ... certain aspects of learning. 2. Nelson Rockefeller suffered ... severe dyslexia. 3. His poor reading ability kept him ... achieving good grades in school. 4. Albert Einstein did not speak... age three. 5. Until he was seven, he formulated each sentence silently ... his lips before speaking it aloud.

6. He had little facility... arithmetic, no special ability... any other academic subject and great difficulty ... foreign languages. 7. Albert Einstein communicated badly ... writing. 8. In describing his thinking process, he explained that he rarely thought... words.

4. Find in the text and give «look up and say» answers to each of the following questions

Ц The enigma of the youngster who encounters extreme difficulty in learning is new, isn’t it? 2. What did Nelson Rockefeller have unusual difficulty in? 3. Did his poor reading ability keep him from achieving good grades in school? 4. How did he overcome his severe dyslexia? 5. What did Albert Enstein suffer from? 6. Why did one teacher predict that «nothing good» would come of him? 7. What disabilities persist throughout all his life? 8. Why do many youngsters with learning disabilities need help?

V. Read and translate

THE STORY OF THE BOY WHO «CODLD DO BETTER»

Episode VO

Is this the same child who holed reading,? This child who sits curled up on the sofa engrossed in a book, who has been shown how dyslcxis children can be taught to read and find it fun? This chiid who now longs to read out loud to his parents? And these proud parents sit and listen and watch, with tears in their eyes, the joy on that small face as the woTld of learning is at last opened up to him, after years of emptiness. A poignant telephone call to his grandmother said it all. “At last*, “she cried, «they have found out what is wrong with met"