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WRITING TASK Write a newspaper article putting forward your point of view about Beethoven. Remember to: * begin by describing your idea of a genius; * collect your ideas about whether Beethoven fits this description or whether he became a genius as a response to disaster in his life. Make each idea a new paragraph and set out a reason for each; * finish by repeating what you said in the first paragraph. Make it clear whether you believe Beethoven showed perseverance to become a genius in the face of terrible difficulties or whether he was a born genius. Some useful words and expressions Describing the effect of deafness Describing the effect of composing lonely alone isolated different awkward strange scared terrified desperate perseverant relief calm release success conquering concentrating overcoming demonstrating showing accepting Sample writing WHAT MAKES BEETHOVEN A GENIUS My idea of a genius is someone who has a great talent but must develop this talent through hard work until it become good enough to produce the work of a genius. Beethoven was certainly a man like that. He had great talents as a composer of music. He played the piano and was a famous pianist of his day. He had also already begun to compose before he became deaf. His deafness forced him to concentrate on his composing and that produced some very profound and important music. It made him into a real genius. The perseverance of Beethoven in the face of his deafness made him into a composer far more important than he would have been without it. Indeed it has been suggested that his terrible difficulties pushed him into becoming a genius. I would agree with that and so I suggest that geniuses are made not born. HOMEWORK Write an article on the research of you own about the five people on page 58, Workbook. Review the whole unit and check your studies. Read