Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Freud was born on may 6,1856, in the small Moravian town of Freiberg

Sigmund Freud was born on May 6,1856, in the small Moravian town of Freiberg. His father was a merchant. His mother was his father's third ______________. In 1860, Freud and his family moved to the city of Vienna. He was almost four.

In 1873, Freud entered the University of Vienna planned to study law but instead became a physician.

Freud was a brilliant student. Although Freud was more interested in studying the philosophical-scientific aspects of the ____________. He especially became interested in neurology and physiology. He finally graduated from the University in 1881. Freud's research was based on close observations and scientific scepticism.

This sceptical quality was not appreciated by all of his mentors. One ______________ especially, Ernst Brucke, did not like Freud's ideas at all. He even advised Freud to take a lowly position at the Vienna General Hospital. Freud took this position, but his decision was influenced by certain personal events that would change his life.

Freud was secretly engaged to _______________ (one of his sister's friends), but he did not have enough money to provide a middle class household that his fiancée thought was necessary. In 1886, Freud finally was able to marry and the next nine years he and Martha had six children together. His youngest daughter Anna would later become Freud's disciple, assistant, and a very good psychoanalyst.

Before his marriage, Freud worked in Paris with a famous neurologist named Jean-Martin Charcot. Charcot claimed that he can cure mental disorders using hypnosis. This radical idea deeply influenced Freud and his quest to solve the mysteries of the mind.

In 1896, Freud would first use the word «psychoanalysis». That same year his father died. This loss would deeply affect Freud.

In 1901, Freud published his Psychopathology of Everyday Life. This book was very popular.

For the next few years, Freud published more papers about the human psychological condition, in both adults and children. His ideas were strongly debated throughout the world.

In 1933, Adolph Hitler was nominated as the chancellor of __________________. Freud however refused to leave Vienna. In 1938, the Germans came into the city of Vienna and it made Freud went to Paris, then he left Paris and went to London.

On September 23, 1939, Freud asked his physician for a lethal dose of morphine, and would eventually die. His death did not stop the spread of his works on _________________.

His theories have already become one of the most popular fields in psychology.

Answer the following questions:

1. What field of medicine did Sigmund Freud especially become interested in?

2. What was Freud’s research based on?

3. Who became Freud’s disciple?

4. What were Freud’s books about?

5. What is Sigmund Freud famous for?

Give the translation (Kazakh or Russian) of the following words:
psychoanalysis-
physician -
research -
to appreciate -
mentor -
fiancee -
to cure -
mental disorder -
spread –

3. Complete the table:

Who developed different theories on human development?

4. Complete the associogram:

5. Read some characteristics of young learners and add your own:

• They have short attention span. So teachers should vary their techniques to break the boredom. they should give varied activities as handwriting, songs, games etc.
• They are very active. Try to ask them to play games, role play dialogues and involve them in competitions.
• They respond well to praising. Always encourage them and praise their work.
• They differ in their experience of learning. Treat them as a unit, don't favour those who know something at the expense of those who do not know.
• They are less shy than older learners. Ask them to repeat utterances, resort to drills.
• They are imaginative. Use realia or pictures to teach new vocabulary related to concrete meanings.
• They enjoy learning through playing. Young learners learn best when they learn through games. Let games be an essential part of your teaching.
• They are less shy than older learners.
• They enjoy imitating and skillful in listening accurately and mimicking what they have heard.
• They respond well to rewards from the teacher.
• They are imaginative but may have some difficulties distinguishing between imagination and real world.
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Explain the meaning: involuntary attention, limited attention, underdeveloped problem-solving and interactional skills, weak memory, here and now reasoning, limited experience, mechanical memory, nor clear motivation.

6. Read a short extract about motivation: