Enjoy Yourself and Improve Your English

One student I knew in Tanzania was the daughter of a school teacher. On the first day of the long school holidays, a whole set of graded English books arrived at her house. 26____ The daughter read them all, starting from the easiest and working up to the most difficult. The holidays passed quickly and when the new school term started, she was far ahead of her classmates in English.

27____ I think there are three. First, learning a new language takes time and practice. It is the same with any skill, like swimming. There are no quicker ways.

Second, successful learning means moving from the easy to the difficult.28____ You have to play very simple tunes before you move on, step by step, to more complex ones.

29____ The student was not trying to improve her English, though her English did improve. She liked the stories and was using them to pass the time. She became better at English without knowing it. Her brain was learning the language while she was concentrating on the stories.

However, many students give two main reasons for not reading much.30____ I am afraid this reason is very weak and simply not true. The other reason is that they do not enjoy it. This reason is stronger. In fact it can be divided into two. You may not enjoy reading because either the language is difficult, or the stories are boring.

A. One is that they have no time.
B. Why don't students read more?
C. What lessons does this story teach us?
D. Her mother had bought them for the school.
E. Third, reading stories in a new language is enjoyable.
F. This is just like learning to play the piano.