The Importance Of Children's Play IELTS Reading Answers with Explanation

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The Importance Of Children's Play IELTS Reading Answers with Explanation

📖 Bài đọc (reading passage)

The Importance Of Children's Play
Brick by brick, six-year-old Alice is building a magical kingdom. Imagining fairy-tale turrets and fire-breathing dragons, wicked witches and gallant heroes, she's creating an enchanting world. Although she isn't aware of it, this fantasy is helping her take her first steps towards her capacity for creativity and so it will have important repercussions in her adult life.

Minutes later, Alice has abandoned the kingdom in favour of playing schools with her younger brother. When she bosses him around as his 'teacher', she's practising how to regulate her emotions through pretence. Later on, when they tire of this and settle down with a board game, she's learning about the need to follow rules and take turns with a partner.

'Play in all its rich variety is one of the highest achievements of the human species,' says Dr David Whitebread from the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. 'It underpins how we develop as intellectual, problem-solving adults and is crucial to our success as a highly adaptable species.'

Recognising the importance of play is not new: over two millennia ago, the Greek philosopher Plato extolled its virtues as a means of developing skills for adult life, and ideas about play-based learning have been developing since the 19th century.

But we live in changing times, and Whitebread is mindful of a worldwide decline in play, pointing out that over half the people in the world now live in cities. 'The opportunities for free play, which I experienced almost every day of my childhood, are becoming increasingly scarce,' he says. Outdoor play is curtailed by perceptions of risk to do with traffic, as well as parents' increased wish to protect their children from being the victims of crime, and by the emphasis on 'earlier is better' which is leading to greater competition in academic learning and schools.

International bodies like the United Nations and the European Union have begun to develop policies concerned with children's right to play, and to consider implications for leisure facilities and educational programmes. But what they often lack is the evidence to base policies on.

Dr Jenny Gibson agrees, pointing out that although some of the steps in the puzzle of how and why play is important have been looked at, there is very little data on the impact it has on the child's later life.

Now, thanks to the university's new Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL), Whitebread, Baker, Gibson and a team of researchers hope to provide evidence on the role played by play in how a child develops.

 'A strong possibility is that play supports the early development of children's self-control,' explains Baker. 'This is our ability to develop awareness of our own thinking processes - it influences how effectively we go about undertaking challenging activities.'

In a study carried out by Baker with toddlers and young pre-schoolers, she found that children with greater self-control solved problems more quickly when exploring an unfamiliar set-up requiring scientific reasoning. 'This sort of evidence makes us think that giving children the chance to play will make them more successful problem-solvers in the long run.'

If playful experiences do facilitate this aspect of development, say the researchers, it could be extremely significant for educational practices, because the ability to self-regulate has been shown to be a key predictor of academic performance.

Gibson adds: 'Playful behaviour is also an important indicator of healthy social and emotional development. In my previous research, I investigated how observing children at play can give us important clues about their well-being and can even be useful in the diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders like autism.'

 Whitebread's recent research has involved developing a play-based approach to supporting children's writing. 'Many primary school children find writing difficult, but we showed in a previous study that a playful stimulus was far more effective than an instructional one.' Children wrote longer and better-structured stories when they first played with dolls representing characters in the story. In the latest study, children first created their story with Lego*, with similar results. 'Many teachers commented that they had always previously had children saying they didn't know what to write about. With the Lego building, however, not a single child said this through the whole year of the project.'

Whitebread, who directs PEDAL, trained as a primary school teacher in the early 1970s, when, as he describes, 'the teaching of young children was largely a quiet backwater, untroubled by any serious intellectual debate or controversy.' Now, the landscape is very different, with hotly debated topics such as school starting age.

 'Somehow the importance of play has been lost in recent decades. It's regarded as something trivial, or even as something negative that contrasts with "work". Let's not lose sight of its benefits, and the fundamental contributions it makes to human achievements in the arts, sciences and technology. Let's make sure children have a rich diet of play experiences.'

❓ Câu hỏi (questions)

Children's play

Uses of children's play 
• building a 'magical kingdom' may help develop ﻿. 
• board games involve ﻿ and turn-taking 
Recent changes affecting children's play 
• populations of ﻿ have grown 
• opportunities for free play are limited due to 
fear of ﻿﻿
fear of ﻿ 
 increased﻿ in schools 
International policies on children's play 
• it is difficult to find ﻿ to support new policies 
• research needs to study the impact of play on the rest of the child's ﻿ 

Children with good self-control are known to be likely to do well at school later on.

The way a child plays may provide information about possible medical problems.

Playing with dolls was found to benefit girls' writing more than boys' writing.

Children had problems thinking up ideas when they first created the story with Lego.

People nowadays regard children's play as less significant than they did in the past.

🔥 Answer key (đáp án và giải thích)

creativity

Giải thích chi tiết

Đọc hiểu câu hỏi:

Building a 'magical kingdom' may help develop _________ *Pattern used: develop something => Đáp án cần tìm là Noun - một lợi ích mà "magical kingdom" mang lại.

----------------------- Tìm vị trí thông tin liên quan

Dựa vào thông tin trong câu hỏi, đáp án cần liên quan tới magical kingdom. Chúng ta có thể tìm thấy đáp án được nhắc đến ở trong đoạn văn đầu tiên trong bài.

*Một số bạn có thể xác định sai vị trí ở đây. Vấn đề này có thể được giải quyết bằng cách đổi từ thói quen scan (vốn dĩ rủi ro sai cao và tốn thời gian hơn), sang Linearthinking & đọc hiểu Main parts của từng câu. (an toàn hơn và tối ưu thời gian hơn, khi đã thành thạo)

Dựa vào Read connection, ở trong đoạn văn đầu tiên, this fantasy ở trong câu 3 đang đề cập tới creating an enchanting world ở trong câu 2, hoặc là trò chơi magical kingdom ở trong câu đầu tiên:

1 Brick by brick, six-year-old Alice is building a magical kingdom. 2 Imagining fairy-tale turrets and fire-breathing dragons, wicked witches and gallant heroes , she is creating an enchanting world. 3 Although she isn't aware of it, this fantasy is helping her take her first steps towards her capacity and so it will have important repercussions in her adult life.

----------------------- Đọc hiểu thông tin liên quan => So sánh meanings để chọn đáp án

Reading: This fantasy is helping her take her first steps towards her capacity for creativity . Question: Building a 'magical kingdom' may help develop _________

Trong khi đó, đáp án cần tìm là Noun - một lợi ích mà "magical kingdom" mang lại. => Đáp án chính xác: creativity

---- Note: Đáp án cần tìm là ONE WORD, một số bạn có thể nhầm tưởng đáp án là một số danh từ khác trong câu, như “steps” hoặc “capacity.”

Nếu chúng ta chọn "steps", đáp án lúc này sẽ là: "Help develop steps" -> Không có nghĩa -> Đáp án sai.
Nếu chúng ta chọn "capacity", đáp án lúc này sẽ là: "Help develop capacity" => quá mơ hồ, không hiểu được là đang phát triển cái gì => Đáp án sai.

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