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What is intelligence? Simply put, it is the ability to learn about, learn from, understand, and
interact with one’s environment. This general ability consists of a number of specific abilities,
which include:
 Adaptability to a new environment or to changes in the current environment

 Capacity for knowledge and the ability to acquire it
 Capacity for reason and abstract thought
 Ability to comprehend relationships
 Ability to evaluate and judge
 Capacity for original and productive thought.
Dr. Howard Gardner developed the theory of Multiple Intelligences. He says that there are eight
kinds of intelligence, not just one. People are intelligent in different ways and therefore they learn
things in different ways. All the different types of intelligence are important and valuable, and
education should help people to learn in different ways. According to Gardner, the eight types of
intelligence are: linguistic, musical, mathematical-logical, spatial, bodily-kinaesthetic,
interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist.
1. Match each type of intelligence with its description:

Controlling the body and handling objects
a) Linguistic
Being sensitive to feelings of others and responding well
b) Musical
Understanding our own feelings and controlling our own behavior
c) Mathematical-logical
Being sensitive to words and sounds and the use of language
d) Spatial
Outdoors practical learning
e) Bodily-kinaesthetic
Hearing and making sounds and rhythm in music
f) Interpersonal
Understanding the visual world and responding well to it
g) Intrapersonal
Seeing number patterns and following an argument
h) Naturalist
2. Match the activities with the intelligences. There are FOUR activities for each type.
 asking questions about how things  drawing
work  having lots of friends
 being individual  humming tunes
 copying actions  leading meetings and games
 doing experiments in nature  learning about nature
 doing jigsaw puzzles  learning from films and pictures
 doing maths in my head  helping my friends
 doing sports
 learning from my mistakes  studying alone in the library
 learning vocabulary  remembering people’s names
 listening to other people’s problems  sewing
 making things from paper or wood  singing
 playing a musical instrument  telling jokes and stories
 playing chess  sorting things into groups
 playing number games  spending time on my own
 reading maps  tapping rhythmically
 recognising different types of things  saying tongue twisters
3. Now check your answers by doing the quiz 1 below. It will also help you identify which
intelligences you are strongest in. For each activity give a mark:
If you are very good at the activity, put 4.

If you are ok, but nothing special, put 2.
If you are no good at that activity, put 0.
A) Linguistic intelligence 4, 2 or 0 E) Intrapersonal intelligence
1) telling jokes and stories 1) studying alone in the library
2) remembering people’s names 2) spending time on my own
3) saying tongue twisters 3) being individual
4) learning vocabulary 4) learning from my mistakes
Total Total
B) Spatial intelligence F) Logical-mathematic intelligence

1) reading maps 1) doing maths in my head
2) drawing 2) playing chess
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3) learning from films and pictures 3) playing number games
4) doing jigsaw puzzles 4) asking questions about how things work
Total Total
C) Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence G) Musical intelligence

1) copying other people’s actions 1) humming tunes
2) sewing 2) singing
3) making things from paper or wood 3) playing a musical instrument
4) doing sports 4) tapping rhythmically
Total Total
D Interpersonal intelligence H) Naturalist intelligence

1) leading meetings and games 1) doing experiments in nature
2) helping my friends 2) learning about nature
3) listening to other people’s problems 3) recognising different types of things
4) having lots of friends 4) sorting things into groups
Total Total
Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability ____ identify, assess, and control the emotions of
oneself, of others, and of groups. Various models and definitions of EI have been proposed, of
which some are widely accepted in the scientific literature.
High EI people, for example, ____ accurately perceive emotions ___ faces. Such individuals also
know ____ to use emotional episodes in their lives ____ promote specific types ___ thinking.
They know, for example, ___ sadness promotes analytical thought and ___ they may prefer to
analyze things ____ they are in a sad mood (given the choice). High EI people also understand
the meanings that emotions convey: they know that angry people can ____ dangerous, that
happiness means that someone wants to share it ____ others, and that some sad people may prefer
to be alone. High EI people also know how to manage _____ own and others' emotions.
Criticisms have centered _____ whether the construct is a real intelligence and whether it is more
important ______ IQ and the “Big Five” personality dimensions.
4. Can you guess the emotions on the faces below?

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 Adaptability to a new environment or to changes in the current environment

1. Match each type of intelligence with its description:

If you are very good at the activity, put 4.

B) Spatial intelligence F) Logical-mathematic intelligence

C) Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence G) Musical intelligence

D Interpersonal intelligence H) Naturalist intelligence

4. Can you guess the emotions on the faces below?

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