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Sing the Language You're Learning How can you remember a song from your childhood to this day? Why do your teachers use songs to teach you English? It seems there is a scientific reason for this. Researchers are now studying the relationship between music and remembering a foreign language. They find that remembering words in a song is the best way to remember even the most difficult language. "Singing could be a new way of learning a foreign language. The brain likes to remember things when they are used in a _ and meaningful way", said Dr, Karen Ludke. The findings may help those who have difficulties learning foreign languages. On his blog, Dr. Ludke writes, "A listen-and-repeat singing method can support foreign language learning, and opens the door for future research in this area." Many language teachers know the value of using music and singing. Hua Zhuying, a teacher at a Chinese language school in Washington, D.C. depends heavily on songs in teaching Chinese. She says, "I use music all the time to teach children Chinese. For little kids usually we use the music. Not only does it work, but it is fun for kids." "Sometimes, I think if I were taught English that way, maybe I could speak much better English than now," Hua Zhuying adds. Our brain likes music, especially for remembering. So, if you're still struggling in learning a language, why not try singing it out ?
1. What are researches studying?
2. What might signing be a new way of doing?
3. What is the Dr.'s name?
4. Does she write a column for the newspaper?
5. Where does she write?
6. Where is the Chinese language school located?
7. What is the teacher's name there?
8. Does she teach adults?
9. What does she use to teach language?
10. What does she suggest everyone use to learn a language?

Numbered answers:
1. the relationship between music and remembering a foreign language
2. a new way of learning a foreign language
3. Dr. Karen Ludke
4. no
5. a blog
6. in Washington, D.C.
7. Hua Zhuying
8. no
9. songs
10. music

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John was an old man who lived in New York City. John used to work at the Post Office before he quit. John has a grandson named Timmy. Timmy came to visit John and brought his friends David, Roger, and Bill. John gave them each a glass of lemonade to drink.

Timmy wanted his friends to try his grandfather's meat soup. John was known to be a good cook. He enjoyed cooking burgers, fish, pizza, and soup. John's meat soup was his favorite recipe. John asked his grandson to go to the store to buy the food. He wanted Timmy to buy some meat. Timmy took some money from John and went to Kroger. Timmy thought of buying ground beef, chicken, turkey, and sausage. He bought three pounds of ground beef. He took it back to John, who had started making the soup in his kitchen.

John cooked the ground beef and added it to the soup. They let the soup cook for two hours and then John tested it to see if it was ready to eat. The soup tasted delicious. Timmy and his friends loved it and told John they would be back for more.
1. What is Johns grandsons name
2. Where does John live

Numbered answers:
1. Three
2. soup

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Hubert Joseph Schlafly was an electrical engineer who helped change the way actors, politicians and other people speak on television. In 1950, he and two other men developed the teleprompter. One co-worker, Fred Barton, was an actor. He had an idea for a tool that would help television actors read their lines without having to memorize them. The other co-worker was Irving Kahn. He worked as vice-president of radio and television at 20thCentury Fox.

The first teleprompter involved a person who held a long piece of paper printed with big letters. As the actor read the lines, another person would move the paper ahead on the device . The teleprompter was first used on a television program called "The First Hundred Years." Later versions used television screens to show the words that were to be read.

Hub Schlafly and his co-workers believed that many companies would want to buy the teleprompter. So, they left their jobs and created the TelePrompTer Corporation to sell their invention.

In 1952, former President Herbert Hoover became the first politician to use a teleprompter. The former president was speaking at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, USA. For a brief time, he stopped reading and began to talk about a subject not written in his speech. When Hoover wanted to continue the speech, the words on the teleprompter were not moving. He then said the machine should be restarted and viewers became aware of the new invention. Many reporters wrote about that incident, creating a new level of publicity for the teleprompter.

Soon more and more politicians started to use it to face the television camera while reading prepared statements, instead of looking down at their notes. Then the device was used for almost all live television broadcasts.
1. What did Joseph Schlafly help to create?
2. Did he do it alone?
3. How many others were there?
4. Who were they?
5. What was Fred's job?
6. What about Irving's?
7. Did they all quite their jobs?
8. why?
9. did they have a company?
10. What was it?
11. When did they create the teleprompter?
12. Who was the person in politics to use it?
13. When?
14. Where was he?
15. At what gathering?
16. Did he give away that he was using it?
17. How?
18. Did this serve as advertising for it?
19. Why did he need it?
20. What was the first show to use it?
Numbered answers:
1. the teleprompter
2. no
3. two
4. Fred Barton and Irving Kahn
5. he was an actor
6. Vice President at 20th Century Fox
7. yes
8. to sell their invention
9. yes
10. the TelePrompTer Corporation
11. In 1950
12. Herbert Hoover
13. 1952
14. in Chicago
15. the Republican National Convention
16. yes
17. he said it should be restarted
18. yes
19. to continue his speech
20. the First Hundred Years