Why Is It Good for Children to Read?

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Listening level
Intermediate

Task 2: Why Is It Good for Children to Read?

1. Write out a list of benefits that reading can bring to a child according to what you hear on the tape.
a. Reading can be a
that a child takes pleasure in;
b. Reading expands a child's
;
c. Reading improves a child's
;
d. Reading enriches a child's
;
e. Reading helps children to become
in life.

2. True or False Questions.
(1)
Even doing an art project, a child needs to read.
(2)
Science fiction is the most important for children.
(3)
Magazines and newspapers, should be excluded for a child's reading list.
(4)
Never say it is a waste of time when a child is reading.
(5)
Even a comic book offers children something to learn.
(6)
Children don't have to read when they pick up a new game or play a new toy.

3. According to what you hear on the tape, give a list of things that children should be allowed to read.
   

 4. Fill in the blanks in the following passage based on what you hear on the tape.
    If I have a child who is
, if he'll read
, I'm happy because he's
. Or if he's, while he's eating breakfast he's reading
he's still reading something and I wouldn't
from him and say, "Stop wasting your time", because that is
to further reading and if you
it to
then, that will, it sometimes, it will
them and they'll
.
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Task 2: Why Is It Good for Children to Read?

1. Write out a list of benefits that reading can bring to a child according to what you hear on the tape.
a. Reading can be a
that a child takes pleasure in;
b. Reading expands a child's
;
c. Reading improves a child's
;
d. Reading enriches a child's
;
e. Reading helps children to become
in life.

2. True or False Questions.
(1)
Even doing an art project, a child needs to read.
(2)
Science fiction is the most important for children.
(3)
Magazines and newspapers, should be excluded for a child's reading list.
(4)
Never say it is a waste of time when a child is reading.
(5)
Even a comic book offers children something to learn.
(6)
Children don't have to read when they pick up a new game or play a new toy.

3. According to what you hear on the tape, give a list of things that children should be allowed to read.
   

    Key: mystery books, science fiction, newspapers and magazines, signs, textbooks, comic books

4. Fill in the blanks in the following passage based on what you hear on the tape.
    If I have a child who is
, if he'll read
, I'm happy because he's
. Or if he's, while he's eating breakfast he's reading
he's still reading something and I wouldn't
from him and say, "Stop wasting your time", because that is
to further reading and if you
it to
then, that will, it sometimes, it will
them and they'll
.