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HOBBIES AND SKILLS B. The Odd Man Out
THEME 2

3 & Read the texts and write the correct names.
1. ........................... feeds himself by the feeling of anxiety in him.
2. ........................... knows how to control his mind pretty well.
3. ........................... ‘s sketches are lifelike.
4. ........................... strengthens his body in hard conditions.
5. ........................... is inspired while travelling.
6. ........................... takes the risk of dying during his performances.
4 & Read the texts again. Write true (T) or false (F). Correct the false ones.

1. Eskil got interested in balancing when he was a toddler.
2. He was invited to a circus at the age of 18 and he started performing there.
3. He decided to go on with the art of balancing when he was a teenager.
4. Seeing a city only once is always enough for Stephen to draw in details.
5. He travels a lot because he is in search for different places.
6. He’d drawn New York City before he took the helicopter ride.
7. Wim’s endurance to hot degrees gave him the name “iceman”.
8. His body doesn’t function the same with the other people.
9. Wim has shown what the human body can do.
5 & Read the statements below. Choose a sentence about Wim and rewrite it without
changing the meaning.
1. Eskil was quite different from his friends at school.
2. Stephan is extraordinarily talented in memorising the visuals and drawing them.
3. Wim ......................................................................................................................... .

b Stephen Wiltshire is a British architectural artist and he lives with autism. He has

an exceptional ability and this makes him a visual memory genius. He looks at a
city once and later draws it from his memory. The thing is, Wiltshire’s drawing looks
like the city with every single building in its exact place. Everything is perfectly
sized in proportion to real life. Stephen has been drawing since his early childhood.
His family said that his frst words were “paper” and “pen”. Also, he’s been travelling
the world for 25 years on a continuing quest to draw different cities and landmarks.
For instance, he took a brief helicopter ride around New York city and produced an
amazing drawing afterward. Wiltshire doesn’t just remember these landscapes long
enough to do the drawing, he retains them possibly forever.

c Wim Hof is a Dutch man with the incredible ability of being invulnerable

to cold. He has proved his skill by swimming in ice cold water and being
buried completely in ice. You might scoff at this as other people have
tried these kinds of feats many times. But nobody has ever climbed up
Mount Everest wearing only a pair of shorts. The Dutch dubbed him
“iceman”. Wim’s resistance was so great that even when submerged in
freezing water that would have killed a normal human in a few minutes,
his body temperature barely dropped. When reporters asked him how
he had achieved all these, his answer was so simple. He stated that he
could easily control his autonomic nervous and immune system response

through concentration and meditation.

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