Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Children should begin learning a
foreign language as soon as they start school. Use specific reasons and examples to support your
position.
Sample essay 1.
I think that children should begin to learn a foreign language as soon as they start school. Even
many parents taught their children the foreign language before elementary school. It is obvious
that really necessary.
People can learn a language easily when they are young. Many older people often say that they
are too old to learn a foreign language. They can't remember the words or phrases even after
hundreds of times reciting. It's hard for them in faith, but while it's quite different from the young.
A healthy child has a better and quicker memory, so the new things he learned may not be
forgotten easily with the process of time.
When you go to the primary school, you begin to learn the knowledge from your teachers. Most
of them use their native language while teaching you. If you don't touch the foreign language you
want to learn, the longer you receive the education, the more difficult for you to learn it.More and
more opportunities to speak Chinese will affect on the consequence of foreign language study
directly, unless we start learning it as soon as the school begins.
Another reason for early language study is that the young may dare to talk with foreigners and it's
a very good chance to practice oral skills. As you know, many grown-ups are bashful to talk with
the foreigners, but Grade One or Two students can do so very easily, for they don't care their
grammar or expressions right or not.In fact, neither do the foreigners. If they start to learn a
foreign language as soon as they go to school, they may also talk with each other in it. What a
good chance! It will help a lot, I think.
In a word, learning a foreign language as soon as starting school is helpful and important. It's not a
burden but one of the best ways of learning.
(This is a 5 point essay)
Sample essay 2.
Nowadays, some may hold the opinion that children should begin learning a foreign language as
soon as they start school, but others have a negative attitude that learning a foreign language early
will pose too much pressure on kids and will affect their mother-tongue learning. As far as I am
concerned, I agree that bilingual education should start as early as possible. My arguments for this
point are listed as follows.
I agree with the statement without reservation since children learn second languages quickly than
adults. As we have observed, children can learn languages faster than adults; and immigrant
children translate for their parents who have not learned the language; and that child learners
speak without a foreign accent, whereas this is impossible for adult learners. Therefore the earlier
kids learn a second language, the less difficulties they would meet when they grow up and have to
face a foreign language speaking environment.
Another reason why I agree with the above statement is that I believe that bilingual education can
be fun and stimulate children’s learning interest. Many parents and teachers know how to teach
kids a second language in an interesting way. One of my students told me that, when he was in
kindergarten, every day his mum taught him a few Chinese characters as well as their meaning in
English. As time passed, the kid became keen to learn English. Sometimes he gave mum and dad a
quiz by speaking some English words and asking them what their meaning is.
Bilingual education will not affect the mother-tongue study of children. As we are living in an
environment of pure Chinese conversation and traditional culture, it is impossible for us to give up
our culture and language. Teachers also are trying to arrange the curriculum in a proper way. For
instance, they create an English-speaking environment for children in the morning, and a Chinesespeaking
environment in the afternoon.
Bilingual education has become a trend. No matter we like it or not, future educational
undertakings will become more international, and exchanges between schools throughout the
world will increase. Given this, speaking a common language is important and, to this purpose,
bilingual teaching is an inevitable way.
foreign language as soon as they start school. Use specific reasons and examples to support your
position.
Sample essay 1.
I think that children should begin to learn a foreign language as soon as they start school. Even
many parents taught their children the foreign language before elementary school. It is obvious
that really necessary.
People can learn a language easily when they are young. Many older people often say that they
are too old to learn a foreign language. They can't remember the words or phrases even after
hundreds of times reciting. It's hard for them in faith, but while it's quite different from the young.
A healthy child has a better and quicker memory, so the new things he learned may not be
forgotten easily with the process of time.
When you go to the primary school, you begin to learn the knowledge from your teachers. Most
of them use their native language while teaching you. If you don't touch the foreign language you
want to learn, the longer you receive the education, the more difficult for you to learn it.More and
more opportunities to speak Chinese will affect on the consequence of foreign language study
directly, unless we start learning it as soon as the school begins.
Another reason for early language study is that the young may dare to talk with foreigners and it's
a very good chance to practice oral skills. As you know, many grown-ups are bashful to talk with
the foreigners, but Grade One or Two students can do so very easily, for they don't care their
grammar or expressions right or not.In fact, neither do the foreigners. If they start to learn a
foreign language as soon as they go to school, they may also talk with each other in it. What a
good chance! It will help a lot, I think.
In a word, learning a foreign language as soon as starting school is helpful and important. It's not a
burden but one of the best ways of learning.
(This is a 5 point essay)
Sample essay 2.
Nowadays, some may hold the opinion that children should begin learning a foreign language as
soon as they start school, but others have a negative attitude that learning a foreign language early
will pose too much pressure on kids and will affect their mother-tongue learning. As far as I am
concerned, I agree that bilingual education should start as early as possible. My arguments for this
point are listed as follows.
I agree with the statement without reservation since children learn second languages quickly than
adults. As we have observed, children can learn languages faster than adults; and immigrant
children translate for their parents who have not learned the language; and that child learners
speak without a foreign accent, whereas this is impossible for adult learners. Therefore the earlier
kids learn a second language, the less difficulties they would meet when they grow up and have to
face a foreign language speaking environment.
Another reason why I agree with the above statement is that I believe that bilingual education can
be fun and stimulate children’s learning interest. Many parents and teachers know how to teach
kids a second language in an interesting way. One of my students told me that, when he was in
kindergarten, every day his mum taught him a few Chinese characters as well as their meaning in
English. As time passed, the kid became keen to learn English. Sometimes he gave mum and dad a
quiz by speaking some English words and asking them what their meaning is.
Bilingual education will not affect the mother-tongue study of children. As we are living in an
environment of pure Chinese conversation and traditional culture, it is impossible for us to give up
our culture and language. Teachers also are trying to arrange the curriculum in a proper way. For
instance, they create an English-speaking environment for children in the morning, and a Chinesespeaking
environment in the afternoon.
Bilingual education has become a trend. No matter we like it or not, future educational
undertakings will become more international, and exchanges between schools throughout the
world will increase. Given this, speaking a common language is important and, to this purpose,
bilingual teaching is an inevitable way.
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