【题目】How do young people learn best? This is something I think a lot when I am teaching foreign languages to young people. I often ______ that traditional teaching ______ are hardly effective for young brains to learn a foreign language.
After moving to southern Italy, I was ______ to have had the chance to ______ a private course teaching English to children under 7. I ______ children liked singing and enjoyed games so I wanted to use these ______ to help my students ______ English conversation skills. I found some fun and easy songs online,______ they loved. I also found the English version of some nursery rhymes (童瑶) they once were ______ with. All of them were very entertaining and helpful but ______ could still not have a basic ______ in English.
I wanted these guys to be ______ in the language I was teaching and I also wished them to speak it. I was eager to deliver 90 % of my lessons in English.______, I knew it would be difficult to get them to talk in a foreign language they ______ speak outside our lessons. So I had to ______ a simple yet effective plan.
One day I decided to ______ a dialogue in English and rather than simply getting students to repeat the phrases, I got them to sing and chant (唱)______. I discovered that chanting along to some conversational sentences was a practical way to get students to speak in English — it ______!
So when teaching English to young people now, I ______ them to make up their own songs and chants to help them remember ______ or complex sentences.
【1】A. suggest B. know C. find D. guess
【2】A. materials B. processes C. attitudes D. methods
【3】A. anxious B. lucky C. surprised D. puzzled
【4】A. get B. offer C. meet D. run
【5】A. considered B. realized C. proved D. insisted
【6】A. activities B. tools C. skills D. lessons
【7】A. develop B. practice C. support D. increase
【8】A. that B. when C. where D. which
【9】A. popular B. familiar C. similar D. particular
【10】A. students B. teachers C. writers D. readers
【11】A. conversation B. performance C. application D. contact
【12】A. experienced B. interested C. concerned D. caught
【13】A. Besides B. Therefore C. However D. Though
【14】A. fairly B. eagerly C. nearly D. seldom
【15】A. come up with B. put up with C. keep up with D. catch up with
【16】A. prepare B. manage C. connect D. bring
【17】A. that B. it C. one D. them
【18】A. mattered B. valued C. worked D. wondered
【19】A. persuade B. encourage C. remind D. command
【20】A. expressions B. conversations C. courses D. measures