这一篇笔记来自雅思14 Test1 Reading1 The importance of children's play
从标题能看出来，文章就是在分析对于小孩子来说，玩的重要性。
首先给出几个具体的小孩子玩乐的例子，想象一个童话王国有助于创造力发展，角色扮演有助于情绪管理，桌游有助于规则和交换角色的学习。
接下来指出，但是由于现代城市的飞速发展、家长出于安全的考虑、童年时期就越来越多的竞争，让儿童时期的玩乐大幅减少。一些教育工作者还有研究者们在努力发现科学证据，来证明玩的重要性以及对成年生活的影响。
他们发现，会玩对于小孩非常重要的一点是能培养他们的自制力。有自制力的小孩在学校的表现普遍会更好，长大之后，也能更好的解决问题，更有可能成功。一个实例是，用玩玩具的方法教小孩子写作文，效果显著。
玩在当代越来越不受重视，是时候做出改变了，让小孩子能有一个快乐丰富的童年。
表达积累：
1. Three ways of playing that are often seen in child:
Children often use their imagination to create a magical world, which is the first step towards the capacity for creativity. They also play schools with playmates. By bossing other kids around, they are practicing how to regulate their emotions. When they settle down with a board game, they are learning the need to follow rules and take turns with partners.
2. the importance of "play"
Plato extolled its virtures as a means of developing skills for adult life.
Play in all its rice variety is one of the higgest achievements of the human species. It underpins how we develop as intellectual, problem-solving adults and is crucial to our success as a highly adaptable species.
3. the development of play
Now there is a worldwide decline in play. The opportunities for free plays are becoming increasingly scarce. Outdoor play is curtailed by perceptions of risk to do with traffic, as well as parents' increased with to protect their children from being the victims of crime.
4. facilitate
If playful experiences do facilitate this aspect of development, it could be extremely significant for educational practices.
5. backwater
The teaching of young children was largely a back backwater, untrobled by any serious intellectual debate or controversy.
6. lose sight of
Let's not lose sight of its benefits.
同义积累：
problem-solving adults - problem solver
toddlers, pre-schooler, children
self-control, self-regulate
