1. Read the article and choose the most suitable title.

(Đọc bài báo và chọn tiêu đề phù hợp nhất.)

1. Use it or lose it: how to educate a gifted child.

2. Teaching everyone: how to divide attention in the classroom.

3. Special needs: why gifted pupils need attention too.

Schools and colleges around the world quite rightly devote a great deal of time and effort to helping children and young adults who are deemed to have special educational needs. Nine times out of ten. This effort is focused on those who are struggling to reach a minimum standard and therefore falling behind with their education. However, is it not the case that if you are gifted, you also have distinct educational requirements and just as much right to individual attention in the classroom? Let's consider both sides of the debate.

'The cream always rises to the top', they say, and so it is often assumed that bright children will excel at whatever they take on. Don’t consistently good grades at school amount to proof of the satisfactory academic progress of those who achieve them? If so, then surely teachers are justified in their decision to concentrate on those who are lagging behind. Add to this the claim that labelling certain children as 'gifted' sends an unproductive message to those who don’t measure up, and there is really nothing left to debate, is there?

Not so fast. Gifted children need attention too! Exceptional pupils should face rigorous challenges at school if they are to remain engaged and realise their full potential. Without such challenges to rise to, these pupils soon become bored and then distracted. It is a tall order for them to thrive if they are constantly asked to twiddle their thumbs while their peers catch up. According to US researchers, by not stretching the brightest of their students 'teachers could be squandering the talent of the most creative minds of a generation'.

Clearly, there is a case for attending more closely to the needs of top pupils, as well as help ng those who are struggling to make the grade. There will always be competition for teachers' attention and schools' resources and, in my opinion, every child is entitled to their fair share during the time they spend at school or college.

2. Read the article again and underline examples of the following items:

(Đọc bài báo lần nữa và gạch chân dưới các ví dụ của các mục bên dưới.)

• Three direct questions (Ba câu hỏi trực tiếp)

• A direct address to the reader (Một lời ngỏ trực tiếp)

• A quotation (Một câu trích dẫn)

• An exclamation (Một câu cảm thán)

3. Put the words in order to make phrases for addressing the reader directly in an introduction.

(Xếp các từ sau để đưa người đọc trực tiếp đến phần giới thiệu.)

1. details / the / at / lock

Let's look at the detail's.

2. arguments / examine / the

Let's _____.

3. debate / sides / the / both /of/ consider

Let's _____.

4 the / points / against / clarify / for / and / main

Let's _____.

5 the / issue / angles / from / explore / opposing

Let's _____.

6. main / view / of / the / elaborate / on / points

Let's _____.

4. Complete the first part of each quotation with the words from the box. Then match the sentence halves.

(Hoàn thành phần đầu tiên với từ trong hộp. Nối các nửa câu với nhau.)

1. It was Benjamin Franklin who said 'an investment in knowledge

2. In the _____ of Oscar Wilde, 'education is an admirable thing; but it is well to remember from time to time

3. 'It is ordinary people who have to be educated'. _____ out Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 'and their education alone can serve

4. As Arthur Schopenhauer famously _____ 'truth acquired by thinking of our own

5. To _____ Alexander Pope, 'men must be taught as if you taught them not

6. _____ to Anatole France, 'the whole art of teaching is

A. only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds'.

B. is like a natural limb, it alone really belongs to us'.

C. that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.

D. and things unknown proposed as things forgot'.

E. as a pattern for the education of their fellows'.

F. always pays the best interest'.