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T H E M E 10

Tapescript 10.3 Listen to Madison Blunt’s Show and put the events in the Professor’s story in the
correct order (1-9). P. 118

Madison Hello everybody! Welcome to Madison’s Blunt Show at home edition. I hope everyone is staying
home safe and healthy. Today we’re going to make a live chat with a very special person, a history
professor from the Princeton University, Mr Jonathan Bruckberry. He is in Florence now and he is
going to talk about a high- profile issue, the creativity of people in quarantine days. Can you tell us
exactly how this happens professor?
Professor Well…yes, we all see that quarantine is bringing out the creativity in many people. It has always
been the same for ages. Some people respond to suffering by turning into art, some into music,
literature, or an invention.
Madison Definitely. Each day, we see people on social media compose lovely songs, write poems, cook
interesting dishes, or furnish their homes…
Professor Did you know that Shakespeare wrote “Macbeth” and “King Lear” in quarantine days? He isolated
himself and wrote these famous plays, all in 1606, during the plague. The Norwegian expressionist
Edvard Munch, as you know, the artist of the famous painting “The Scream”. He painted his self
portrait after he survived from the Spanish Flu in 1919. But the most interesting one is the story of
how Isaac Newton discovered the Gravity. Let me tell you. Newton was in his early twenties when
the Great Plague hit London. It lasted from 1665 to 1666 and killed more than sixty-five thousand
people. Newton was a college student at Cambridge in those days. When the Plague broke out, the
school sent students home to continue their studies. Young Newton moved to his safe family
farmhouse outside the city. At home, he built bookshelves and created a small office for himself. He
continued his mathematical problems there. By the end of 1666, Newton invented the mathematical
system called calculus. During his studies, he used to watch the apple tree outside his window. One
day he saw an apple falling from a tree and it was the starting point of everything. “The force that
pulls the apple down must be the same one that pulls the moon to the Earth,” he murmured to
himself. Six months later, Newton returned to Cambridge with the theories in his hands… (pause)
You see, during a pandemic, he had to work from home like most of us and he used the time wisely.
Madison Absolutely amazing and an inspiring quarantine story, thank you for joining us and sharing your
knowledge with us professor… What great inventions and beautiful pieces of art will COVID-19
leave behind? Who knows?
(they both laugh together)

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