9th grade. Unit 9. Lesson 3. You are smarter than you think

👉Communicative area: discussing different types of intelligences and the way we learn

👉Active vocabulary: to be in tune with, challenge, empathy, intelligence, to possess, to require

1. What does it mean to be intelligent?

2. How do you understand the phrase “Each of us is intelligent in this or that way”?

Listen to the introductory part of the interview with a university professor in Psychology about multiple intelligences.

Answer the questions below.

1. How old is the theory of multiple intelligences? 
2. Who introduced this theory? 
3. What was his idea? 
4. How many intelligences does he single out? 
5. How many intelligences can a person have? 
6. How do we learn about the world around us? 
7. What is another way to say that somebody is intelligent in something?

Match the names of the intelligences with their synonyms. Each intelligence has two synonyms. Click to do the exercise.