CHILDREN MAKE EARLY START AT LEARNING ENGLISH

Many students take lessons before reaching school age

Chen Yilin, who turned 3 in November, was sitting alongside six other children on the floor of a kindergarten classroom at an educational institute in Shanghai that caters to Chinese youngsters learning English.

"Who has a lizard?" the teacher from Canada asked the children, all of them younger than 5. Several shouted one after another, "I've got a lizard."