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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1937.

Second of new series

Intelligence Tests

for Children

IS YOUR ENGLISH.

CORRECT?

BUSINESS JARGON

Much bad English Ands its way into business correspond- ence. Most typists, every day, Tave to take sentences like this: "We are in receipt of your esteemed favour of 30th Inst. and beg to thank your good- selven for same, which shall

our best attention,"

"In _reccipt of" is au

102-

have

necessary circumlocution for "have received." "Esteemed

favour is a silly piece of

- pseudo-politeness for "order"

or

"letter" or

Sp with

or whatever it is.

with "your goodselves"es-

as business letters are

pecially as

so often written by one set of

sharks to

to another.

"Sante" is Jargon; it should

be tised instead

of "same."

"Which shall have

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Tests below are for children. aged six to nine. It is not claimed that they fit every child, but they are a useful pointer to the way your child's mind is developing.

penny.

turn to rach

Don't count more thas the first

Y the age of six your while pointing in child will be at school Show him how to begin by say,

will be able ing. "Look, like this one.. and

you to gauge to a certain extent how he compares with other children in intélligence.

penny yourself.

SCORING: The test is passed if me child is successful in

of two irlula,

one nut

This test is not given until the It is reassuring to parents, however age of seven in America, but with when they receive our children, through our slightly purticularly depressing school reports-to be able different methods of teaching and to see that their child is absolutely toys, the number normal in development. They con earlier, then blame the school tuition and not the child.

sense

develops

Test 3: A six-year-old should know the names of four of our "s penny, halfpenny. Any normal child in good health cons--such

shilling and should be who can pass sume of the following sixpence. tests, according to his nge, should able to tell you at once which they on well at school are when held out to him. Show be able to get provided the school is known to be the coins separately and begin with

the lowest value, successful with its pupils.

SCORING:

Three out of four questions should be properly ons- wered. If the child changes his CE x. Test : The child answer to the question, count the the first should now be able to dis- second reply and ignore tinguish between left and right. in scoring. Ask him to "Show me your left ear" and "Show me right eye

your You may test by giving three com- mands. If the Brst sel are not successful, try another three,

SCORING:

Left And Right

Mental Arithmetic

AGE

seven. Test 1 : Your child should now be able to do simple addition sums in his The child must pass head. For instance, the number of either three out of three or five out fingers on each hand and the num- of alx to have passed the test.

Just Test 2: The child should, by the ask, "How many fingers have you

Angers on both hands. age of six, be able to count up to

on one hand?" "How many on the 13 while Indicating objects,

other hand?" "How

many on both hands together?”

Try this with pennies. Put a row of 13 pennies on the table and ask the six-year-old to count them

ber of

without counting out loud. It does not matter if the child excludes the thumb and says-four, four and eight.

Test 2: Choose three pictures with movement in them. A battle, a hunt, children playing, are suitable suggestions. Show them, one at a time, to the child, and ask, "What is this picture about?"

Don't ask what they see in the pictures, as we are asking the seven- year-old to interpret the picture, not 10

in it. SCORING:

colate think out of the three

Every Father

Will

Know This

HAVE just finished dressing. I dress in the large bedroom, and

Virginia

(aged

four),

abetted by John (18 months), has come, as usual,

to "help" me dress.

Scene then, the bedroom. I come In fresh and it from my bath. There is Virginia on the floor cutting pic- tures from my Daily Express,

That means I shan't be able to read it nt breakfast, for if I take it away from her thero will be tears, and I If 1 hate tears in the early morning. don't take it from her she will have cut it up into admission tickets for her dolls' circus by breakfast time.

Interval to reprove John for pull- ing all my clean shirts out of the wardrobe, and to put them back. am no good

shirts, at folding wonder how the laundry does ii.

Song And Dance Interlude

I

I put on my vest and then have to sing a loud

song white Virginia shows me the latest dance she has learned at her dancing class. My choice of musle is much appreciated, and John starts dancing, too. He stands firm and square and fis one foot after the other in ponderous rhythm.

I manage to get into my shirt, sing- ing heartily meanwhile, and put on a pair of socks.

John is now doing his great "help- ing" net of pulling my trousers off the hanger ready for me to wear. He pulls off the wrong pair, which have to be refelded and the right

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SCORING: All three questions pictures should be interpreted cor- Tie's On, Anyway

must

be answered promptly and

So You Know

Your Language?

There are one-word answers to these questions:-

1.

A female swan is a

best

2.

an unnecessary

attention," is ar assurance.

How much time trould every Appist save in a year if our

sentence were correctly written thus: "Thank you for your letter (or order) of October 30."

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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J. If you are walking to and fro you are

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G.

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rectly. The child may describe things in the picture as inuch as he likes, but he must grusp in his de- scription what is happening.

Counting Backwards

GE eight. Test 1 by eight a child should be able to count backwarda from..20.to

anc.. Make clear what you want him to do, It is permissible to begin to show

begin him thus: 20, 19, 18.

SCORING: Should not take more than a minute, and there should not be more than one error (or omission). Ask him a simple question, "I I gave you a shilling and asked you to

Elurral! I have succeeded in get- Ung my tie on while they are not looking. Now where are my shoes? Virginia has put them on over her own and is slopping in next door to show my wife, Shouts of admiration from my spouse, who has been wak- ened from her inst snooze to applaud this performance...

I rescue the shoes and put them on, No shoe-horn, of course; that is some- where in the nursery, propped up to heller-skelter for the smaller members; of Virginia's doll family.

scrve as

Ret, yourself a 2d. ball, how much Getting Away

change would you have to give me back?"

Ask him another two questions of similar type, choosing a six-pence and a two-shilling piece-but don't let the two-shilling plece problem involve a difficult subtraction.

SCORING: Two out of the three problems should be answered cor.

in 15 seconds each,

rectly

Test 2: Think of four simple things-such as football, sallor, lion, motor-car. Then say to the child, "What Is a football?" Naturally, choose things with which the child is fomillar.

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Test 3: By eight a normal child's vocabulary includes 3,000 words. Choose 20 ordinary words that a chlid is likely to use every day-such as dress, scream, jump, tap, fire-and ask him to explain their menning."

SCORING: One word explaining the meaning la sufficient if st rect or a child may, if he Ekes, lounch out into a lengthy explanation.

With It

Now my coat, and the contents of my pockets. I get most of my money Into my pocket before Virginia realises what is happening. But she is just quick enough to abstraet 2d for the man with the penny whistle, her favourite charity,

And so, hand in hand, we three go down to breakfast.

G. R. H.

So You Know,

Your Language?

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2. Gambrel.

3. Peripatetic.

4. Topiary.

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0. Leodensian.

cor-

7. Febrifuge.

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OUR BRITISH

ACROSS

1 Open-air musician, or band with

a "perler" after them (hyphen, 8, 7).

9 Folk like this break fast.

10 He lives-mostly in Dickens. 11 Priest 03

would become

D

prophet. Ungrammatical, but 12 Wrongs,

true,

13 Editors simply love this humble

utensil.

14 Pale as the article she is held.

by.

10 Acts up wrongly, but supplies

zest.

18 Jelas-it in the centre as part of

one.

20 Wedgwood was what many do

on Sunday.

22 A striking altitude.

24 Three Where? In that place,

maybe.

27 Goes first, possibly as led. 29 When Sam Browne lost, the wren it was making of this darkle.

30 Like Junus, she faces both ways. 31 Times in which a lad is in deep

waters.

32 They make a deal, though not

all die rich.

33 Pollte bug-hunter.

DOWN

2 The class of author who wrlies

about a catalogue.

3 This is wrong for a spinster.

4 Vegetables with holes.

5 Enid grows up, but is still, ap- parently, under ten. Nurse finds her useful in dressing wounds.

CROSSWORDS

Put clothes on.

7 Exclude (two words, 4, 3),

# Pure rose spot (anag.).

The finish of two nations (two words, 0, 0).

14 A piece by itself.

13 Word mentioned in one of the

previous half-dozen clues,

17 What notabilities do to artists, 19 Girl's name.

21 Take ace, and arrange for tea. 23 Many,

25 The driver of this vehicle always

has a German for his fare, 20 What

house.

some people pay for a

28 Little animal with its tall out-

aide the portico.

29 Rate.

Saturday's Solution:

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UBAGE

MON ADARTS SQUEEZE INTUR

8 ECEDED BACUP

W OF REGAL R I. OWNED N N PREEN

B 8 A8

TROUBLE

DT ME ANTHILL

BRO N' ON E

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