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| Afligles | Signin’ |) (Communiy You may study diferenty from your friends, but your study habits are probably not wrong! Kelly and Maria are best frends with a Jot in common. They love doing things together, such as going to movies and concerts, shopping, or just siting at Jocal café. Since they take a lot of the same school subjects, they would love to study together, but they find this impossible. Their working styles are ‘so completely different that they can't be in the same room while they are studying! Kelly would rather study in a clean, ‘open space, whereas Maria works best by surrounding herseff with ‘books, papers, and other clutter. Kelly ‘refers to study in a totally silent room, ut Maria loves to play music or even have the TV on. Kelly can sit for nours without moving, and often gets all of her homework cone in ona siting. ‘Maria, on the other hand, is constantly (getting up, and claims that she thinks best when she's on the move. 4. clutter © 2. sitting C 3. concentrate 4, approach _< 5. identical > together because they have _ ut very quiet, and she can__Si studying is __bebley for example. Despite the Win URE a the erddle, | Urstudy cc} Vike wh Ihe si Have you ever had trouble focusing when you're studying? What did you do about it? Kelly and Maria are friends who have a lot , and she likes to 0% __ than the other. Noise can help some people different habits, Kelly and Maria are both students, and it is interesting that the friends have \rica\ D GROUP WORK Whose studying style is closest to yours, Kellys or Mar Je the 5 ‘eu ight be exking yours, wich way of stung gets ater reais? Mary poop. assume that sent uncer eting isthe way tego, bth seems that not necesary the cas Some esearch has ren show that ousige nose end Cuter help some peonle conceal because it makes them form metal war around what they are doing and moro ther focus So fyoureastadent ho chooses to study whe sting ptatable ina busy shoopng ma don"t wory about it And ‘you work toa since has OK, to. Judging fom Kely dnd Mara stu nabts, the best wey 0 Study tho way tat Work or you. th th very ferent approaches, bot of them do exter wel n school, and bom fh thr workin bout the same amount of ie 25 Wa One curs act about he th trends Desote ther opposing Stung ses they have almost corte embitons, Bath re ‘planning to go 16 law school = Kall wtntheiseact & becoming human i] rights attorney and Maria hoping to become a public defender. But will they be study buddies? Not a chance! B Read the article. Find the words in italics in the article. Then match each word with its meaning, ‘x focus attention on something bbe exactly the same Ea . period of activity without a break dk way of doing something 6 objects in a state of disorder © Complete the summary with information from the article. Use one or two words in each blank +00 __, but they can’t study Ovi, Kellylikes a Stace thats for 8 long time. Maria prefers a space that is ‘Studies show that neither way of 19 Conable ___ plans for the future. 3? Why? ay 1 Ce Never stop learning. pates BUY noise must b isle to dec stund 5

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