Albert Einstein

Phrases match:

1.	the most intelligent person	a.	this would happen
2	He must have been pretty	b.	name
3.	No one could have guessed	c.	brainy
4.	the system of learning	d.	stop him
5.	failed the entrance exams	e.	who ever lived
6.	He didn’t let this setback	f.	over 300 scientific papers
7.	traveling alongside a beam	g.	by heart
8.	He went on to publish	h.	to a technical college
9.	a household	i.	absent-minded professor
10.	the typical mad,                         j.of light

The answers 

1. e

2.c

3. a

4. g

5.h

6.d

7.j

8.f

9.b

10.e

Gap fill

Albert Einstein was a German-born physics , although most people probably know him as the most intelligent person ___who ever lived____. His name has become part of many languages when we want to say someone is a genius, ___as in the phrase___, “She’s a real Einstein”. He must have been pretty brainy to discover the Theory of Relativity and the __equation E=mc2___.

In 1999, ‘Time’ magazine named Einstein as the Person of the Century. No one __could have guessed_ this would happen when he was at school. He was __extremely interested in ___ science but hated the system of learning by heart. He said it destroyed learning and creativity. He had ____already done many__ experiments, but failed the _entrance exams to __a technical college.

He didn’t ____let this setback stop__ him. When he was 16, he performed his famous experiment of imagining traveling alongside __ a beam of light__. He eventually graduated from university, in 1900, with ___a degree in physics__ . Twelve years later he was a university professor and in 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for Physics. He _____went on to publish_ over 300 scientific papers.

Einstein is the only scientist ___ to become a cult  to  figure, a household name, and part _of everyday culture_. He once joked that when people stopped him in the street, he always replied: "Pardon me, sorry! Always _ replied: "Pardon me, sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein.” Today, he is seen as the typical mad, _absent-minded professor_, who just happened to change our world.