LISTENING 9 A2

Can children teach themselves?

Lecture
You are going to listen to a lecture called ‘Can children teach themselves?’.
Then you are going to listen to two teachers giving their opinion on the lecture.

1 A2 9.1 Listen to the lecture and choose the most important idea. 3 A2 9.2 Listen to the two teachers. Which
A Children spend too much time on the internet these days. teacher agrees most with Mitra’s ideas?
B Children can use the internet to learn things by themselves. Teacher 1 (Misha)
C Children only learn with the help of good teachers. Teacher 2 (Kenny)

2 A2 9.1 Listen again and choose the correct options. 4 A2 9.2 Listen again. Are these sentences true
or false?
1 Sugata Mitra is famous for putting a computer in a wall / teaching
computer science. Teacher 1 thinks:
2 Mitra is very interested in how children learn / selling computers. 1 All children are interested in learning in
groups. TRUE / FALSE
3 The Indian children didn’t understand / learnt how to use the
computer. 2 Information on the internet is sometimes
wrong. TRUE/ FALSE
4 Mitra believes children can learn simple computer skills by
themselves / with a teacher for three months. 3 Children do not need teachers. TRUE / FALSE
5 To help children learn more, Mitra thinks it is useful to play music to Teacher 2 thinks:
them / ask them questions. 4 All Mitra’s ideas are right. TRUE / FALSE
6 Many people think Mitra’s ideas are new / wrong. 5 Children can learn things without a teacher.
7 Mitra won some money to build a new type of school / café in India. TRUE / FALSE
8 ‘Schools in the cloud’ are cybercafés for children / with excellent 6 Children enjoy using the internet.
teachers. TRUE / FALSE

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