Make Your Way 5, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Language in use You are going to read a text about how to be a good magician. Some words are missing from the text. Use the words in brackets to form a word that fits in the gap (1–10). Write your answers in the spaces provided at the end of the text. The first one (0) has been done for you. Write your answers here: 31 It is very important for a magician to make eye contact and seem relaxed while his tricks are being performed. A er all, magic tricks are all about (0) ..... (deceive) , and if a magician can make the audience relax, they will trust him and be easier to deceive. e ability to distract the audience’s attention at certain times is also vital, for example when one object is swapped for another, or when he is hiding things up his sleeve. If the audience notices these parts of the trick, it will be (1) ..... (possible) to make the ‘magic’ work. Surprisingly, it has been shown that it is quite easy to distract people. In one (2) ..... (fame) experiment, a group of students were asked to watch a video of basketball (3) ..... (play) and to count the number of passes they made. Around half of the students failed to notice a woman dressed in a gorilla costume who walked across the scene for 9 seconds, even though she stopped to face the camera at one point to thump her great (4) ..... (hair) chest. When the same students were told to watch the tape again without count- ing, they noticed the gorilla immediately. In fact, some of them refused to accept that it was not a (5) ..... (di er) tape that was being played. ey thought that the video had been edited a erwards to include the gorilla. is experiment showed how (6) ..... (easy) an audience can be distracted. e (7) ..... (personal) of the magician is also important. A magician will nd it easier to relax and distract his audience if he is of (8) ..... (charisma) character and comes across as being authoritative yet likeable. If he cannot control the mood of his audience, he will be less (9) ..... (like) to manipulate their attention. Finally, a magician needs to be a good (10) ..... (act) . When he makes a coin vanish, for example, he should look genuinely astonished. If he can do this, the audience’s suspicions will be reduced. How to be a good magician 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 deception TIP Find tips for this task type in the “Becoming familiar with …”-section of Compact unit 4 . 63 3 Extensive unit 3: Unsolved mysteries Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv