ACADEMIC LISTENING TEST PRACTICE
NICOLA TESLA - BIOGRAPHY

For Students Preparing for Academic Tests / IELTS and TOEFL

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Discuss these questions with a friend or classmate.

1. What information from this lecture did you find most interesting? Why?
2. Nicola Tesla was often in debt throughout his life. Why do you think this was so?
3. Why do people invent things? Can you think of three reasons?
4. What two questions would you like to ask Nicola Tesla? 
5. What do you think are the three greatest inventions of the past 200 years? Why?
​6. What would you like to invent? ​Why? Describe the invention you would like to invent.

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