Rewarding children - Unit 1

C1 Advanced · Word Formation · Ready for C1 Advanced 4th Edition, Macmillan Education

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning.

EXPECT

PAY

PERFORM

RECOGNISE

ABLE

DIFFICULT

FAIL

JUDGE

Cash rewards are a common form of (0) ___ used by parents with high (1) ___ to encourage their children to work hard at exam time. Some youngsters receive (2) ___ of as much as £100 for each A grade they obtain. But should such 'bribes' be based on exam (3) ___ , or should they be based on teachers feel of effort in (4) ___ of a child's effort, regardless of results? The latter approach would solve the problem of how parents reward children with different levels of (5) ___ . To children who are academically gifted and another who has learning (6) ___ , the dangers of result-related incentives for the second child are obvious, with little hope of obtaining the highest grades, the withholding of promised financial rewards would only compound the child's feeling of (7) ___ . However, some leading educational psychologists believe that parents should rely on their own (8) ___ in such matters. They maintain that if parents know that money will motivate their child, then they should not be condemned for operating a system of cash pay-outs.

Rewarding children

MOTIVATE

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