Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Fabiola Gianotti's story combines professional growth and creative vision: from her beginnings in international protocol to a meeting with Barack Obama, to designing a space conceived to connect people and ideas, with an ironic ending related to the Higgs Boson.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Sandra tells about her initial difficulties in the United States and how, realizing she wouldn't get very far without knowing English, she learned it on her own. Starting from a humble job in the restaurant industry, she quickly grew professionally.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
This part highlights Peter Higgs himself, and his winning of the 2013 Nobel prize in physics. This reflected also on Fabiola, who was the first woman to direct the Geneva Institute. Through testimonies and interviews, her extraordinary scientific career is highlighted, along with her modesty, and the account of her childhood dreams.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Sandra tells about her immigration experience to the United States in 1979. At first, without knowing English well and without technology, she faces many difficulties in daily life and in finding work. Starting from a simple job as a coat check attendant in a restaurant, she slowly begins a new life that would later lead her to become a chef.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Initially, supersymmetric particles were being sought, but without results, and surprisingly the Higgs boson was observed after only two years. Fabiola Gianotti's seminar at the CERN Auditorium, followed by an enthusiastic audience, officially announced the discovery, generating great excitement in the scientific community.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Sandra was born in the province of Pisa and tells the story of her personal transformation. She begins at the beginning, when she was a young girl growing up in Cascina, a town near Pisa. But she wasn't happy and felt like a fish out of water.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
On March 30th, 2010, the first proton collisions took place in the Large Hadron Collider, a historic moment for physics. After 20 years of work, the scientists celebrated the success of the event, marking the beginning of a new era in scientific discoveries.
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
Marika explains the school evaluation system in Italy, illustrating grades, exams, report cards and electronic registers. The lesson also includes the meaning of useful terms and expressions related to school life, helping to better understand how the Italian school system works.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
The world of research can also be told with lightness and self-irony: through traditions like an annual play, scientists transform discoveries and great protagonists into opportunities for joking and sharing, revealing the more human and fun side of theoretical physics.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
This vocabulary lesson is dedicated to school: Marika illustrates the main school activities, such as studying, reviewing and taking tests, along with the most common subjects, explaining their meaning with simple and clear examples.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Fabiola Gianotti's account retraces a serious technical incident that affects a major scientific experiment, the initial shock and the subsequent recovery. In parallel, her personal reflections and the strong emotions linked to the responsibility of leading the project emerge.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Marika explains school vocabulary: first she presents the main spaces of the school building, then the people who work or study at school. Let's discover together if you know all the vocabulary related to the school environment.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Here is the account of the startup of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN on September 10, 2008, when for the first time proton beams began to circulate in the accelerator ring. The event, followed live by the media, is presented as a historic moment for science, despite the fears and catastrophic news spread in those days.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
In this part Fabiola Gianotti talks about the connection between science and creativity, combining physics and music as universal forms of expression. She also explains the work of the Large Hadron Collider, where proton beams are made to collide to study the universe right after the Big Bang.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Matteo tells us how fundamental it is to know the entire score, not just one's own part, in order to best interpret a piece. For him, music is above all education in listening: to the composer, to other musicians, and to oneself. Playing together thus becomes an experience of growth and mutual care, even before it becomes artistic.
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