Most _______ love listening or

singing along to music

• preschoolers

• infants

Studies show that parents who create

a ____ musical environment do not

only entertain their kids but also help

them to develop essential music skills.

• rich

• poor

• very poor

Music plays a very important part in our

_____.

• culture

• custom

• religion

It is no surprise that

parents use music ______ to express joy, and to

engage or calm their children.

• extensively

• instinctively

Research undertaken by a team of researchers

in the 1990s showed that the exposure to

music from early childhood onwards helps

children

• To speak more clearly,

• To develop a larger vocabulary,

• To strengthen social and emotional skills.

• To speak more slowly

The psychologist Howard Gardner already argued in

1983 that music intelligence is as important as _______

• Naturalistic intelligence

• Interpersonal intelligence

• spatial intelligence

• logical

  and emotional intelligence.

Music has the ability to strengthen the

connection between the body and brain to work

together as a

• team

• beam

• scheme

In general, the exposure to music

supports children in their ______ process to

learn the sound of tones and words.

• internal

• development

• external

Many studies have investigated the importance of

music in early childhood development since the ____.

• 1950s

• 1960s

• 1970s

• 1940s

Children do not express music in the same way as

_

• toddlers

• infants

• adults