NFE - 100412 - Lord's Prayer _V2 - ESL Teachers Board

Should Children Learn the Lord’s Prayer? – 10 th April 2012GAP FILL: READING:Put the words into the gaps in the text.Should Children Learn The Lord’s Prayer?(1)_____ in Britain the (2)_____ of Canterbury Rowan Williamssaid he believes that children should be taught the Lord’s Prayerin school. Speaking to the BBC on its children’s TV programmeNewsround Dr Williams said he was worried by news that half asmany children know the (3)_____ compared with 40 years ago.He said, “I’d like to see (4)_____ introducing children to theLord’s Prayer, so that they know it’s there, they know what itmeans and why it matters and they then can make up their ownminds (5)_____ about whether they wish to use it.”His remarks follow a survey on the Lord’s Prayer the BBC did tomark 40 years since the programme was first broadcast.Newsround surveyed over 1,000 children aged 6-12 and 1,000adults who’d have been that age 40 years ago, and compared theanswers. The (6)_____ found that children today are twice aslikely to say that (7)_____ is important to them compared to 40years ago – but they are now half as likely to know the (8)_____of the Lord’s Prayer.religiontextlaterschoolssurveyrecentlyprayerArchbishopDr Rowan Williams: “The Lord’s Prayer isn’t a very big orcomplicated thing.” He added, “It’s not as if you have to learnpages on end of things in a (1)_____ language. There aremodern versions of it.” He added, “I don’t think it’s too difficult tointroduce children to this and introduce it in (2)_____ languageand say not ’You’ve got to pray this,’ but this is something that’sreally, really important to lots and lots of people and can changetheir lives.”The Archbishop of Canterbury’s (3)_____ on Christian teaching inschools comes amid an (4)_____ debate among members of theclergy, many of whom believe that their faith is being (5)_____in education. Last month the Church of England set out a plan tointroduce 200 new (6)_____ schools across Britain. (7)_____schools must argue their cause in a time where faith-basedschooling is increasingly at (8)_____.emphasisfaithplainrisksidelinedstrangechurchongoing6Find this and similar lessons at http://www.NewsFlashEnglish.com