Children as young as four will study Shakespeare in a project being launched today by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The RSC is holding its first national conference for primary school teachers to encourage them to use the Bard’s plays imaginatively in the classroom from reception classes onwards. The conference will be told that they should learn how Shakespearian characters like Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream are "jolly characters" and how to write about them.
At present, the national curriculum does not require pupils to approach Shakespeare until secondary school. All it says is that pupils should study "texts drawn from a variety of cultures and traditions" and "myths, legends and traditional stories".
However, educationists at the RSC believe children will gain a better appreciation of Shakespeare if they are introduced to him at a much younger
A. How to give pupils a flavor of Shakespeare drama.
B. The fun of reading Shakespeare.
C. RSC project will teach children how to write on Shakespeare.
D. RSC project will help four-year-old children find the fun in Shakespear
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second language is disputed among teachers, researchers and pushy parents. On
the one hand, acquiring a new tongue is said to be far easier when young. On the
other, teachers complain that children whose parents speak a language at home
that is different from the one used in the classroom sometimes struggle in their
lessons and are slower to reach linguistic milestones. Would a 15-month-old
child, they wonder, not be better off going to music classes A study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may help resolve this question by getting to the point of what is going on in a bilingual child’s brain, how a second language affects the way he thinks, and thus in what circumstances being bilingual may be helpful. Agnes Kovacs and Jacques Mehler at the International School f A. Parents. B. Teachers. C. Researchers. D. Children themselves. [填空题]Sometimes very young children have trouble (separate)（）fact from fiction and believe that such things actually exist.
[填空题]Some students indicate that young children stop being _____ as soon as they reach school age because the classroom is a place where facts rather than imagination predominate.
[简答题]Some young children spend a great amount of their time practicing sports.Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
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