TED Talk: How Books Can open Your Mind

Watch this 6-minute talk and answer the question below:

1. Where is Lisa from?

2. What career did her government dream for her?
GYMNAST/ENGINEER/OPERA SINGER
3. What career did her parents dream for her?
GYMNAST/ENGINEER/OPERA SINGER
4. Why?
___________________________________________________
5. What career did she dream of?
GYMNAST/ENGINEER/OPERA SINGER?
6. Who supported her dream?
___________________________________________________
7. How did she deal with the frustration of her dream?
a. Getting advice from her parents
b. Reading
c. Learning English
8. What *role did books have on Lisa´s **upbringing? CIRCLE ANY CORRECT ANSWER
a. They offered advice for a person growing up
b. They offered a different view on women
c. They ***instilled in her a new dream
9. Her first books in the US were “banned” in China. What do you suppose
that means?
a. A big “hit”
b. Prohibited
c. Considered “banana” books
10. a. What very important concept did Lisa learn from the Bible?
You shall (will) ______________ your father and your mother.
b.
How is it so different from what she had been taught in China?
C.
Complete:
____________________ is better than _________________
11. What ´s “comparative reading”? (Make notes. Sentences aren´t necessary)

12. Complete the sentence: “A map actually carries ___________’s ______.”

TED Talk: How Books Can open Your Mind

13. How does reading translated and original books teach you new things?
(Again, notes!)

14. DICTATION. Complete the sentences:

a. Books have given me a _______________ _______________ to
connect with _______________ of the _______________ and the
_______________.
b. I know I shall never feel _______________ or _______________
again.
c. I HAVE COME TO BELIEVE THAT _______________
_______________ IS NOT THE ONLY PURPOSE OF A
_______________. IT´S MOST _______________ _______________
IS TO _______________ US IN _______________ WITH
_______________ _______________ COME FROM, WHERE
_______________ COMES FROM, WHERE _______________ COMES
FROM.
15. What have books done for Lisa? CIRCLE THE CORRECT ANSWER
a. They have given her a new country
b. They have given her a clear idea of who she is and what she is
supposed to do with her life
c. They have ****shattered her dreams.

GLOSSARY:
*ROLE: The part an actor plays; the character played by the actor.
**UPBRINGING: The way a person is educated by his/her family
***INSTILL(ED): To inspire; to create a desire or a value in a person´s mind/heart
****SHATTER(ED): To break into little pieces, like broken glass

Lesson based on Lisa Bu´s TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_bu_how_books_can_open_your_mind#t-336940