Students explore the stories of unusually talented young people in music, mathematics, and other fields. They discuss practice, family support, challenges, and the relationship between talent and hard work.
Practice: Vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, and discussion.
Vocabulary: prodigy, compose, brilliant, transcribe.
Grammar: Use past perfect and past simple together to clarify the order of past events.
Word study: The prefixes uni- (one) and bi- (two), as in unicycle and bilingual.
Reading & speaking: Read about Mozart’s childhood and talent; discuss practice, family support, and being a child prodigy.