Reading for general meaning. Skim the text and choose which summery sentence best expresses the main point of the text
1. The sacrifices the family must make for children to succeed.
2. The benefits the family receives if children achieve success.
3. The importance of support from the family if children can achieve success.
2. Reading for special information. Scan the text and find out which of the people, a-e:
a) Steven Spielberg
b) Jana Novotna
c) Leonardo DiCaprio
d) The writer
e) Michael Owen
1. _________ greatly appreciates mother’s love.
2. _________ has a mother who feels children should be encouraged when they are young.
3. _________ has won a lot of money.
4. _________ is one of several other children.
5. _________ feels you should not be put off by lack of success.
6. _________ achieved success because their parents took part in something.
7. _________ is helped professionally even now by both parents.
8. _________ has a family who has made big sacrifices.
9. _________ has parents who regret some of the effects fame has had.
10. ________ feels hardly anybody realizes how difficult it is to help other people succeed.
Does your son have Premier League magic in his toes? Could your daughter sing in a Broadway musical? When your loved ones have talent, the whole family has to be patient and helpful.
How many of us really understand the huge leap of time, attention, energy and understanding it takes to turn a talented youngster into an international star? And how far would you go if you suspected a member of your family was good, even amazingly, unbelievably good, at what they did? Could you cope with the thrills and bills, the total invasion of privacy and the impact on family life?
When 14-year-old Steven Spielberg cut his cinema teeth on his first war movie, it was Mum, according to Steven, who crawled through enemy fire in a soldier’s uniform before making lunch, and his Dad who squeezed into his old air force uniform and worked
