THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1937.
Second of new series
Intelligence Tests
for Children
IS YOUR
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BUSINESS JARGON
Much bad English finds its way into business correspond- Care. Most typists, every day, have to take sentences like this; "We are in
receipt of your esteemed favour of 10th inst. and beg to thank your good- selves for same, which shall
our best attention." "In receipt of" is au necessary circumlocution for "have
"Esteemed recciece of favour" is a pseudo-politeness for "order" or whatever it is.
or "letter" or
TEL-
So with your goodselves!-es- pecially as business letters are so often written by one set of sharks
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assurance.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Tests below are for children
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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
cncl
Y the age of six your while pointing Ja child will be at school Show him how to begin by say, and you will be able "Look, like this
Don't count more then the first penny yourself.
to gauge to a certain extent how he compares with other children in intelligence.
One
SCORING: The lest in passed f
the child is successful in one out
of two truls,
Test 3: A six-year-old should forw he Bames of four of our coins--such sixpence,
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This test is hat given until the It is reassuring to parents, however site of seven in Amerien, but with when they receive our ebikdren, through our slightly --particularly depressing school reports-to be able different methods of teaching and to see that their child is absolutely toys, the number sense develops normal in development. They can earlier, then blame Ute school tuition and not the child.
penny, halfpenny. Any normal'
child in good health
shilling and should be who can puss some of the following tests, according to his age, should able to tell you at once which they be able to get on well at school Bre when held out to him. Show in known to be the enins separately and begin with provided the school
The lowest value. successful with its pupils.
SCORING:
out of Three
four questions should be properly ans wered. If the child changes his answer to the question, count the second
and Ignore the first reply
Left And Right
AGE six.
Test 1 The child should now be able to dis- tinguish between
left and right, in scoring.
A
GE
child
Ask him to "Show me your left ear"
eye" Mental Arithmetic and "Show me your right You may test by giving three com- manda.
are not If the Arst set successful, try another three,
SCORING: The child must pass efther three out of three or are out of six to have passed the test.
Test 2 The child should, by the age of six, be able to count up to 13 while indleating objects,
Try this with pennies. Put a row of 13 pennies on the table and nst the six-year-old to count them
1.
Your seven. Test 1:
should how be able to do simple addition sums in his brad. For instance, the number of Angers on each hand and the num- ber of fingern on both hands. Just ask, "How many fingers have you on one hand?" "How many on the other hand?" "How
mony on both hands together?"
without counting out loud. It does not matter if the child excludes the thumb and says four. four and eight.
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Test 2: Choose three pictures with movement in them. A battle, hunt, children playing, are sultáble suggestions. Show then, one at a time, to the child, and ask, "What la this picture about?"
Don't ask what they see In the pictures, ns we are asking the seven-" year-old to interpret the picture, not to isolate things in it.
SCORING: Two 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 I fresh and Bt from my bath. There
is Virginin on the floor cutting pic-. tures from my Daily Express.
That means I shan't be able to read
it at breakfast, for if I take it away from her there will be tears, and I If I hate tears in the early morning. don't take it from her she will have cut 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. I
nt folding shirts. am no good wonder how the hundry does it.
Song And Dance
Interlude
I
I put on my vest and then have to slag a loud song while Virginia shows me the Intest dance she has learned at her dancing cluss. My much appreciated, choice of music and John starts dancing, too. He stands firm and square und lifts 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' act of pulling my trousers off the hanger ready for me to wear. He pulls off the wrong pair, which have to be refolded and the right pair chosen. But even now I am not allowed to take them off the hanger. A gross breach of privilege for me to do this-John's job.
questions pictures should be interpreted cor- Tie's On, Anyway
SCORING: All three must be answered promptly and
So You Know Your Language?
There are one-word answers to these questions:→
A female swan is a
2. The crooked stlek used by butchers for hanging carcases is a
3. If you are walking to and fro you are
4. The ornamental trimming of shrubs is
5. A group of partridges is called a
6.
A mm from Leeds is
1. A medicine used to reduce your temperature is
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Counting Backwards
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GE eight. Test 1 by eight a child should be able to count backwards from 20 to one. Make clear what you want him to do. !! permissible to begin to show him thus: "20, 19.
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SCORING! Should not take more than a minute, and there should not be more than one error (or omission). Ask him a simple question, "If I gave you a shilling and asked you to
Hurrah! I have succeeded in get- ting my lie 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 wite. Shouts of admiration from my spouse, who has been wak- ened from her last snooze to upplaud 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 serve as a helter-skelter for the smaller members of Virginia's doll family.
get yourself a 2d. ball. how much Getting Away
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Now my coat, and the contents of my pockets, I get most of my money Virginiu Into my pocket before realises what is happening. But she is just quick enough to abstract 2d for the man with the penny whistle, her favourite charity.
And so, hand in hand, we three go down to breakfast.
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1 Open-air musician, or band with
a "peeler" after them (hyphen, 5.).
0 Folk like this break fast. 10 He lives-mostly in Dickens. 11.Priest 35 would become
prophet. Ungrammatical, but
true.
12 Wrongs.
13 Editors simply love this humble
utensil.
14 Pale as the article she is held
by.
16 Acts up wrongly, but supplies
zest
18 Joins it in the centre as part of
one.
20 Wedgwood was what many do
on Sunday.
22 A striking aftitude.
24 Three! Where? In that place,
maybe.
27 Goes first, possibly as led. 20 When Sam Browne lost the wren it was making of this darkle.
30. Like Janus, 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 Polite bug-hunter.
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2 The class of author who writes
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.
Nurar
finds her useful in dressing wounds.
0 Put clothes on.
'7 Exclude (two words, 4, 3).
8 Pure rose spot. (anag.).
9 The finish of two nations (two
words, 0, 6).
14 A piece by itself.
15 Word mentiated in one of the
previous half-dozen clues.
17 What notabililles 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 some people pay for a
house.
.....
28 Little arroul with 'Its tail 'òtrl-
side the portico,
20 Rale.
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