Developing Critical Thinking

Outside View

1. Why does UNICEF think it is so important to educate children?

2. What effects do you think the wartime conditions will have on children?

3. How can we help these children?

Listening in

Passage 1

1 Do people tend to think that the past is happier than it actually was? Why / Why not?

2 To what extent does the farm the speaker describes resemble a Chinese farm?

3 Do you think children brought up in the country would feel the same if they spent a week in the city with relatives each year? Why / Why not?

Passage 2

1 How can small children be helped to be happy at school?

2 Why do some children have more difficulty starting school than others?

3 How important is it to have a best friend at school?