Cover of the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.2 for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Workbook with authors Antonia Clare, J. J. Wilson and Stephanie Dimond-Bayir from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the notes for a summary of the story in Exercise 5 and audio script 7.2 on page 78.
  2. Which of the following are included in the notes? Tick the ones you find.

Answer

a)

  1. His first word was door, not moon. He took one day to learn a language, not one week.
  2. Journalists followed him around and wrote articles about this young genius. Not all childhood geniuses will produce great things as adults

b)

  1. Uni (university), yrs (years)
  2. &
  3. close 2 him
  4. THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SIDIS
  5. Background
  6. leave people alone