Question

Work in pairs. One of you is A, and the other is B. A reads the information card about Uncle Ho below. B reads the information card about Marie Curie (next page).

Answer 1

Marie Curie as a lifelong learner

- Managed to go to university (because there were no universities accepting women in her country, Poland, she moved to France and studied physics and maths at the Sorbonne University)

- Spent a lot of time studying (e.g. studied on her own while working as a governess or tutor, borrowed books from the library, registered for many different courses at university)

- Won prizes (was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only woman to win a Nobel Prize twice, won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and another Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911)