■ Direction You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response. Your response will be judged on the basis of The quality of writing and on how well your response presents the points in the lecture and the relationship to the reading passage. Typically, an effective response will be 150 to 225 words. ■ Question Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on the points made in the reading
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▶ Topic :
Would you agree or disagree that studying bygone time is of no value to people who live in the here and now. |
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▶ Your Answer :
There might be some people who believe that studying bygone time is of value to people who live in the here and now. However, I personally disagree with the above idea for two subsequent reasons. First, it is not helpful to solve problems in today’s society. Second, studying history is not practical.
To begin with, a number of problems these days cannot be solved by studying bygone time. Generally speaking, many things, including the environment, cultures, society, and economy, have been changed during a long time. Of course, there would be some similar problems or situations compared to the past. However, so many details are different that it is meaningless to analyze today with past cases. Let me bring up my personal story as an example. When I was a high school student, the history teacher a teacher of history gave the assignment to look for a past incident that would be helpful to solve today’s complicated economic problems, especially labor things. Therefore, I started reading all the books that looked to have information about this topic. However, I failed to find the appropriate cases to explain the assignment, so I had to go to school without satisfying results. Surprisingly, almost 80 percent of the students failed to uncover the cases either, even the smartest student in my class Suzy.
On top of that, people cannot get pragmatic information with history. In general, students have to study for entering university, sometimes which needs to master historical subjects, but it is partial problems. Besides, when they grow up, they have to prepare to make money for their lives. Therefore, it is more helpful for them to learn utilitarian technologies or fields like business or economics, not bygone time. For instance, I have a friend who majored in history at university. She really liked to study many cases and information in the past. However, she had difficulty getting a job after graduating. My major was business that I could find a job related to what I studied easily. Accordingly, she said to me that she loved to study history, but she should have had focused on subjects useful in society. This clearly shows that studying bygone time is useless to subsist in the present.
In a nutshell, the past is different from the present, so studying bygone time is not useful for solving problems here and now. Furthermore, there is a lot of utilitarian information apart from historical things. In this regard, I strongly agree with the statement. |
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1. 각 문단 시작 전에 tab 버튼 눌러서 들여쓰기 해주세요.
2. Accordingly, she said to me that she loved to study history, but she should have had focused on subjects useful in society.
두 번째 문단에 이런 문장이 나오는데 왜 그렇게 말했는지를 중점으로
내용을 작성해주셔야 합니다. (ex. 그녀가 막상 직장에 가보니 히스토리를 쓸 일이 없다)
필요 없다 라는 내용을 말하는 것이 아니라
왜 필요 없는지를 포커스에 두시면 좋을 것 같습니다.
수고하셨습니다. *^^*