【推荐2】Encouraging early reading skills can build a path to a lifelong love of reading and can help your child get a head start in school. While reading to your child is still the most important thing you can do to build reading skills, there are many techniques that can help.

Make reading fun. Play games with your child as you read. Many traditional children’s games can be adapted to encourage reading skills. While reading or during play, tell your child, “I spy with my little eye, something that begins with the letter ‘b’.” Help the child find something on the page or in the room that begins with that letter. For example, “I see a barn.” This can also be used to teach beginning letter sounds. “I spy with my little eye, something that begins with the sound‘s’.” Help the child find a word that begins with the “s” sound.

In this variation(变化) on the popular game, instruct the child that, “Simon says, ‘point to something that starts with the letter ‘n’.’” The child can then find an object in the room or a body part, such as the nose, that starts with the letter presented. This can also be used to teach beginning sounds.

Make a game out of rhyming (押韵) words by making up silly words to rhyme with the child’s name or favorite toys. This sets the stage for rhyming real words by showing the child the similarities of sounds. As the child masters making up the words, begin rhyming real words to one another.

Tips to raise a successful reader:

Put books in places where the child plays. If books are easily accessible, children are more likely to pick them up.

Let children “read to you” by looking at pictures. Making up stories to go along with illustrations helps children discover how words relate to pictures.

Take books along on trips or even short visits to the doctor’s office or grocery store.

Have children help you shop. Reading grocery lists and looking for specific items help build vocabulary.

1. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．A good reading habit can benefit your child at school.

B．Computer games help children develop reading skills.

C．You should be careful as for what books to read.

D．Children enjoy reading poems to their parents.

2. What can we conclude from the text?

A．The most important thing is to make reading funny.

B．Children have a preference for stories with pictures.

C．Rhyming games should begin only with real words.

D．Children tend to read more if books are at hand.

3. What message does the author deliver in the passage?

A．Interest is the best teacher

B．Practice makes perfect

C．Good methods are half done

D．Failure teaches success

4. What are the intended readers of the text?

A．Parents.

B．Children

C．Educators.

D．People in general.

【推荐3】A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises(出现) from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say, so peculiar(奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

1. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when _______.

A．it is repeated without any change	B．it is treated as a joke
C．some changes are made to it by a parent	D．it is set in the present

2. According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is _______.

A．in a realistic setting	B．told in a different way
C．repeated too often	D．heard for the first time

3. The advantage claimed(提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it _______.

A．develops their power of memory

B．makes them less fearful

C．makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of

D．encourages them not to have strange beliefs

4. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.

A．they are full of imagination

B．they make teachers of history difficult to teach

C．they are not interesting

D．they are just made up of the stories which are far from the truth

【推荐2】Overview

If you've been missing afternoon drink outings to bars, restaurants, or pubs, this Withlocals Virtual Aperitivo(意大利小吃)Lesson with a Roman Local is a great way to still experience a fun, social activity while sipping(抿一口)on some delicious drinks. Your instructor teaches you how to make a traditional Italian aperitivo in real time, and talks about Italian culture in a private, online setting that you can experience right from home.

What To Expect

Stop at: Rome

It is a fun virtual experience with a local from Rome. Pour yourself a drink(or two)and join a local host or a class on how the Romans spend their afternoons. Ingredients(材料)list and Aperitivo workshop included. Excited to get started? Please have these ingredients ready before we start the class!

Duration: 1 hour

Admission Ticket Free

Frequently Asked Questions

The answers provided below are based on answers previously given by the tour provider to customers' questions.

Q: What is the maximum group size during Withlocals Virtual Aperitivo Lesson with a Roman Local?

A: This activity will have a maximum of 10 travelers.

Reviews by Viator travelers

Amazing class and host!

Adi, Jun. 2020

Bea is an incredible host! She guided us through the class very well and gave us a lot of historical context on everything we made. The crostini recipes were delicious, the aperitivos were amazing, and most of all, we loved learning about the culture and history behind all of it.

1. What can travelers experience in Withlocals Virtual Aperitivo Lesson?

A．Talking about the local culture online.	B．Taking a face-to-face class.
C．Staying with a Rome local.	D．Making a traditional French aperitivo.

2. What would you do for Withlocals Virtual Aperitivo Lesson?

A．Arrange a schedule for two hours.	B．Book a ticket in advance.
C．Prepare ingredients before class.	D．Join any group as you like.

3. What is the Viator traveler Adi content with?

A．The patience of the host.	B．The gains from the class.
C．The size of the class.	D．The drinks and food.

【推荐3】Timetable




1. Which of the following is true of the membership card?

A．Its number is l0865 305305.

B．It belongs to Mr. E. M. Driscoll.

C．It is valid through the year of 2010.

D．It gets the owner a discount when used.

2. If one wants to attend a business lunch in London at l2:00, the latest train that he should take at Oxford leaves at       .

A．11:45

B．11:15

C．10:35

D．10:05

3. If you would like to have some vegetable beef, what may be your choice?

A．French Slam®.	B．Chicken-Fried Steak®.
C．The Super Bird®.	D．Sandwich with Salad or Soup®.

4. The chart shows that from 2005 to 2008,        .

A．the percentage of the Spanish families with a computer rose 35 points

B．the percentage of the White families with a computer remained unchanged

C．the number of the Black families with a computer was on the decrease

D．the number of the Asian families with a computer showed the sharpest increase