Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Q: Skills for Success: Reading and Writing 4: Unit 8 Reading 1: The Promise of Play p.213-218

(Supplementary Materials for Specific Textbooks--Q: Skills for Success: Reading and Writing 4)

Google Drive Folder HERE
Slideshow for online teaching: slides, pub
Match the definitions to the words: docs, pub
p.214-215 Questions: docs, pub
Write What You Think: docs, pub
Board Race: slides, pub
Doraemon Scanning Race Game: drive, slides, pub




1. ____________________ helpful or useful


2. ____________________ to include something as part of another thing


3. ____________________ the work of treating mental or physical illness without using an operation


4. ____________________ not able to change or be changed easily


5. ____________________ to try very hard to do or achieve something


6. ____________________ sad and serious


7. ____________________ confused because you have two feelings or opinions about something that are opposite


8. ____________________ someone or something that causes change


9. ____________________ using new methods or ideas


10. ____________________ to stop fighting against something


11. ____________________ someone who doubts that a belief or an idea is true or useful


12. ____________________ ordinary, or not interesting


1. The author mentions three groups of clients that he has worked for in the context of analyzing play.  What are the three groups?


2. The ability to play is critical for what 3 things?


3. The author is using an expanded definition of play.  “Play” in his definition is not only games or sports, but it includes what other things as well?


4. What two things are all around us, but goes mostly unnoticed until they are gone?


5. Who teaches children how to play?


6. How do older people (adults) feel about play?


7. The little play that adults do is mostly very organized, rigid and competitive.  What example does the author give?


8. Adults feel like they should always be what?


9. Some people that the author talks to argue back against him.  What name does the author call those people?


10. According to the skeptics in the audience, there are only two types of people who have time to play.  Which two people are they?


11. What are two beneficial effects that a little bit of play can have on our lives?

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