Викторина без названия

At home we ate a funny mixture, because of my parents. Fresh fish, bacon and eggs for breakfast on Sundays, and traditional apple pies. But my favourite was fish. We ate fish every day, which my dad caught. In fact my dad still goes fishing every night!

• 1-E, 2-E, 3-B

• 1-D, 2-B, 3-A

• 1-C, 2-A, 3-C

• 1-B, 2-C, 3-D

• 1-A, 2-D, 3-E

So my love of food and cooking came from my parents and also from many inspiring ladies who surrounded me when I was growing up. My aunt, Thia Koula, had animals, a garden, olive trees and grapes. In the summer I often spent all the day with her. She knew everything about wild food in Crete. She only ate what she had grown or found or made herself. It’s such a beautiful way to eat.

• 1-A, 2-B, 3-C

• 1-C, 2-A, 3-D

• 1-E, 2-D, 3-B

• 1-D, 2-C, 3-E

• 1-B, 2-E, 3-A

The oldest child

Firstborn children often have to look after their younger brothers and sisters so they’re usually sensible and responsible as adults. They also tend to be ambitious and they make good leaders. On the negative side, oldest children can be insecure and anxious. This because when the second child was born, they lost some of their parents’ attention and maybe they fell rejected.

• 1-A, 2-B, 3-C

• 1-C, 2-A, 3-D

• 1-E, 2-D, 3-B

• 1-D, 2-C, 3-E

• 1-B, 2-E, 3-A

The middle child

Middle children are more relaxed than the oldest children probably because their parents were more relaxed themselves by the time the second child arrived. They are usually very sociable-the kind of people who get on with everybody. They are also usually sensitive to what other people need, because they grew up between older and younger brothers and sisters.

• 1- E, 2- C, 3- B

• 1- A, 2- B, 3- E

• 1- B, 2- D, 3- A

• 1- D, 2- E, 3- C

• 1- C, 2- E, 3- A

The youngest child

Youngest children are often very outgoing and charming. This is the way they try to get the attention of both their parents and their old brothers and sisters. They are often more rebellious. They can also be immature and disorganized and they often depend too much on other people because they have always been the baby of the family.

• 1- E, 2- B, 3- A

• 1- E, 2- C, 3- E

• 1- B, 2- D, 3- A

• 1- D, 2- E, 3- B

• 1- C, 2- A, 3- D

Alex Rawlings speaks 11 languages

As well as learning languages himself, Alex has also taught intensive language courses. He also appears in the media and regularly attends events organized by institutions such as the European Council and the British Council to promote language learning and multilingualism. He has also written a book, 'How to speak any language fluently'. Yeah, it's a good question. So put it this way. I've never met anyone who couldn't learn a language, you know, I mean, if they had the right motivation, the right time allocation, the right resources, and the right expectations, I've never met anyone who's had all of those things in place and still failed. But many of us fail to learn languages because one of those things is not there. We don't have enough time, we're not doing it for the right reasons, or we expect it to be a lot easier than it actually is. Well, the easiest language for me to learn was definitely Afrikaans, because the grammar's very, very simple, so there are almost no irregular verbs, there's only three real tenses you have to worry about and a lot of the vocabulary in Afrikaans is very similar to vocabulary in English.

• 1- B, 2- B, 3- C

• 1- E, 2- C, 3- E

• 1- A, 2- D, 3- A

• 1- D, 2- E, 3- B

• 1- C, 2- A, 3- D

Alex Rawlings speaks 11 languages

So for example, there's this sentence which is 'My pen is in my hand and my hand is in warm water', which in Afrikaans is 'my pen is en my hand and my hand is in warm water', which, you know is very, very easy for English-speakers to learn. So the easiest languages to learn are the languages which are most similar to the one you speak natively, because you don't have to learn so many new concepts and maybe you can already understand a lot of the vocabulary because it's similar to what you already know. I think British and American people think that they're not very good at languages. I think we don't have much confidence. Because when we go abroad to other countries, we... we expect people to speak English, people expect us to speak English, so we never get a chance to practise the little bits of other languages that we might know.

• 1- A, 2- A, 3- A

• 1- E, 2- C, 3- E

• 1- B, 2- D, 3- C

• 1- D, 2- E, 3- B

• 1- C, 2- B, 3- D

Common stereotypes about men and women but are they really true?

Scientists and psychologists say that there are certain gender stereotypes which they have proved are true, for example, a recent academic study found that men are better at assembling IKEA furniture than women! But can we really believe the results of these studies? Here are five more stereotypes which researchers claim are true.

• 1- B, 2- C, 3- A

• 1- E, 2- C, 3- E

• 1- B, 2- D, 3- C

• 1- D, 2- E, 3- B

• 1- C, 2- B, 3- D

Scientists in Norway asked  18 men and 18 women to find their way through a virtual maze, completing various tasks along the way. Men were able to solve  50% more of  the problems than women in the same time. ‘Men’s sense of direction was more effective. They simply got to their destination faster said Dr Carl Pintzka of the Norwegian  University of Science and Technology. A. Men are more competitive than women

• 1- B, 2- C, 3- A

• E, 2- C, 3- E

• 1- D, 2- C, 3- B

• 1- D, 2- E, 3- B

• 1- C, 2- B, 3- D

Psychologist at the  University of Herefordshire gave 50 male and 50 female students eight minutes to perform three tasks at the same time: maths problems, finding restaurants on the map, and drawing a plan for finding a lost key in a field. To make it more difficult, they were asked some general knowledge questions while they worked. The women, it turned out, easily did all four things at once, but not the men - so it seems that this old cliché is true.

• 1- A, 2-B, 3- C

• 1- E, 2- C, 3- A

• 1- B, 2- D, 3- C

• 1- C, 2- E, 3- B

• 1- C, 2- B, 3- D