Thông qua việc giải trực tiếp trên IELTS Academic Reading 7 các bạn sẽ nắm vững cấu trúc đềthi, rèn luyện kỹ năng giải đề, hãy tham khảo và ôn thi thật tốt nhé! Chúc các bạn ôn tập để đạt kết quả cao! | IELTS Academic Reading 7 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 14 which are based on Reading Passage Sample 7 below Alarming Rate of Loss of Tropical Rainforests Adults and children are frequently confronted with statements about the alarming rate of loss of tropical rainforests. For example one graphic illustration to which children might readily relate is the estimate that rainforests are being destroyed at a rate equivalent to one thousand football fields every forty minutes about the duration of a normal classroom period. In the face of the frequent and often vivid media coverage it is likely that children will have formed ideas about rainforests what and where they are why they are important what endangers them independent of any formal tuition. It is also possible that some of these ideas will be mistaken. Many studies have shown that children harbour misconceptions about pure curriculum science. These misconceptions do not remain isolated but become incorporated into a multifaceted but organised conceptual framework making it and the component ideas some of which are erroneous more robust but also accessible to modification. These ideas may be developed by children absorbing ideas through the popular media. Sometimes this information may be erroneous. It seems schools may not be providing an opportunity for children to re-express their ideas and so have them tested and refined by teachers and their peers. Despite the extensive coverage in the popular media of the destruction of rainforests little formal information is available about children s ideas in this area. The aim of the present study is to start to provide such information to help teachers design their educational strategies to build upon correct ideas and to displace misconceptions and to plan programmes in environmental studies in their schools. The study surveys children s scientific knowledge and attitudes to rainforests. Secondary school children were asked to complete a .
