Lesson 9, One

Bringing Up Baby Click on the "play" button to hear the audio! <a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">Click here</a> to download the latest version of Quicktime.

Enter your full name: Enter your email address: Enter your professor's email address: Listening and Pronunciation: Recognizing Word Endings Type the correct form of the word you hear.

Research shows that a baby's early (1) (experience / experiences) influence his brain development. What happens in the first three years of a baby's (2) (life / lives) affects his emotional (3) (development / developments) and learning (4) (ability / abilities) for the rest of his life. It is a well known fact that talking to infants increases their language (5) (ability / abilities) and that reading to them is the most important thing (6) (parent / parents) can do to raise a good reader. Some parents even think that it's important to play Mozart to babies and show them famous (7) (work / works) of art.