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3B MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK

 Lead in

Discuss the following questions with your friends.
Do you think success comes to those who have chance in life? Why/Why not?
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2 How do you think success is measured?

Reading

a Discuss the following questions with your partner.
Do you sometimes forget your plans? What do you do to avoid it?
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Do you keep a weekly planner? If yes, does it help you focus on your plans?
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MANUAL MEMORY

A 19-year-old teenager Ricky Dean, who As he doesn’t have sense of time, he has to
lives in Taunton, England, is suffering from a plan everything the day before and set the alarm
pretty interesting disease called ‘short-term for each activity on his phone. He sets alarms
memory loss’. When he was a child, he couldn’t even for daily routines such as washing face,
communicate with others until the age of 7. A brushing teeth, etc. He has post-its all over his
doctor diagnosed Ricky with autism and he home and he even carries a card in his wallet to
received special education for a while. He was remind him how to get back home if he is lost.
able to produce sounds in a year and he could Ricky says: “It can be rather difficult at times.
communicate with others quite well. He also The worst thing is missing appointments with
managed to read and write in two years. friends and forgetting good things. I can’t look
However, when he was 11, a full memory MRI forward to anything because I have no concept
revealed that he had not only autism, but also of time, but my family and friends are so
memory loss. supportive.”
Dean’s mother, Nicki says: “We knew Ricky has been studying Land and Environment
something was wrong when he was seven. To for the past three years at a Special Needs
get a diagnosis was a relief because we had College. He is fairly talented but when he is asked
been saying all this time that he wasn’t doing all what he’d like to do for the rest of his life, ‘I have
these things because he wanted to.” no idea,’ he says, ‘I can’t picture the future.’

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