1.2
EXPLORING PERSONALITY
8
LISTENING AND SPEAKING
1
How useful do you think the following are for judging a
person’s character?
personality tests handwriting analysis appearance interviews
2
Have you ever done a personality test? If so, why?
3
a
1.3
Listen to an interview with Dr Hisham Mohammed Janahi,
an expert in psychometrics (the measurement of intelligence and
personal qualities). Tick (
ü
)
the topics covered in the interview.
1
things that psychometric tests measure
2
the first tests
3
problems with personality tests
4
the Myers–Briggs test
5
the future of personality tests
3
b
Complete the questions that the interviewer asks.
1
What exactly
psychometrics
?
2
How
psychometric testing
?
3
useful
the tests?
4
they reliable?
5
What
personality tests
you about a person?
6
you
any of these tests yourself?
7
What
you
on at the moment?
3
c
Listen again and check your answers to Exercise 3b.
GRAMMAR
QUESTION FORMS
4
Look at the questions you completed in Exercise 3b. Which tense
is used in each question?
5
Are these statements about question formation true or false?
Correct the ones that are false.
1
In questions with the verb
be
, we put the verb before the subject.
2
In present simple questions (except with
be
), we use the auxiliary
verb
do/does
.
3
In past simple questions, we use the auxiliary verb
has/have
.
4
In present continuous questions, we put
do/does
before the subject.
5
In present perfect questions, we put
has/have
before the subject.
6
Look at a and b below, then answer questions 1–3.
a
Who designed the Stanford–Binet test?
– Alfred Binet designed it.
b
What did Alfred Binet design?
– Alfred Binet designed the first usable intelligence test.
1
In which question (a or b) is the
wh-
word the subject? (This is a
subject question.)
2
In which question (a or b) is the
wh-
word the object? (This is an
object question.)
3
In which type of question do we form the question with an
auxiliary verb, e.g.
do/does
,
did
?
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Language reference and extra practice pages 126–127
S
ome actors believe that they
have to ‘become’ the people they
play in order to give a convincing
performance. Actors who think and
behave in character to prepare for their
roles are known as ‘method actors’. Two
classic examples today of method actors
are Daniel Day-Lewis and Johnny Depp.
Daniel Day-Lewis is undoubtedly the
greatest method actor of our time. He
has won three Oscars for best male actor
– more than any other male actor. He
works only when it suits him. He does
not act for the money. He chooses roles
in films that are difficult to play and tries
to understand totally the thoughts and
emotions of the personalities he portrays.
He prepares thoroughly for roles and finds
ways in which he can ‘live’ in a character.
He becomes completely involved in the
character. For the film
The Boxer
, he
devised a training schedule: twice a day
in the gym, seven days a week for three
years. He became so fit that he could
have entered the ring professionally.
His method acting also appeared when
he played the role of Christy Brown, the
Irish artist with cerebral palsy, in the
film
My Left Foot
. Day-Lewis stayed in
a wheelchair while on set, spoke like a
person with cerebral palsy, and asked crew
members to spoon-feed him and wheel
him about. At this time, he taught himself
to paint, like Brown, using his toes.
METHOD
