BOOK 2 - Unit 1 - Comprehension - Content Questions One of you asks the first six questions and the other answers. Starting from Question 7, change roles. When you have finished, the teacher may want to put some of the questions to you to check your progress.
2. What was their son Benjamin fond of doing during their stay at the Jinling Hotel?
BOOK 2 - Unit 1 - Comprehension - Content Questions {[Their 18-month-old son Benjamin was fond of trying to place the key into the slot of the key box during their stay at the Jinling Hotel.}]
BOOK 2 - Unit 1 - Listening Task - After Listening Complete the following statements according to what you have heard. 1. The Chinese child was {[much more advanced]} than her son.
BOOK 2 - Unit 1 - Comprehension - Content Questions
Now switch roles.
7. What does the author mean by saying this incident was key in more than one sense? {[He means that this incident pointed to important differences in educational and artistic practices between China and the USA.}]
3. How would Chinese staff members of the hotel respond to Benjamin's attempt to place the key into the slot? {[They would come over to watch Benjamin and then try to teach him how to do it properly.}]
1. What were the author and his wife doing in Nanjing in the spring of 1987? {[They were studying arts education in Chinese kindergartens and elementary schools in Nanjing.}]
4. Her son is not g)f)]}, but good at {[thinking]}.
BOOK 2 - Unit 1 - Listening Task - After Listening 5. In conclusion she advises that we should give our children {[ample space to grow]}.
4. Why did the author decide to work the key-slot anecdote into his discussions with Chinese educators?
BOOK 2 - Unit 1 - Comprehension - Content Questions {[Because he realized that this anecdote was directly relevant to their assigned tasks in China: to investigate early childhood education and to throw light on Chinese attitudes toward creativity.}]
5. What did his Chinese colleagues think of the key-slot incident? {[Most of them displayed the same attitude as the staff at the Jinling Hotel.}]
6. What did the author emphasize in presenting his views about the incident? {[He emphasized that the most important thing is to teach the child that one can solve a problem effectively by oneself.}]
2. The mother tried to {[apply some aaccaaddeemmiicc pprreessssuurree]} to her son, but quickly {[gave in to his pleas/gave up]}.
3. She compares her son's love for subjects like differential equations and physics to the way {[a duck takes to water]}.