■ 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 : 1. University students should be required to attend classes.(vs receive the credits through the final test or paper |
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▶ Your Answer : There might be some people who believe that students should not be required to attend classes.There are obviously many opinion regarding the topic, but it is clear that university should require students to attend classes.
Admittedly, attending classes they enroll is too stressful. This is mainly because if students are forced to go to classes, they feel like attending classes stress them out. In fact, stress is one of the primary factors of illnesses because it weakens the ability of the immune system in fighting diseases. For example, my uncle, a doctor in a general hospital in a city, often tells me that many of his patients suffer adverse health effect from stress. They come to him for stress-related ailments and disorders such as headaches, high blood pressure, and insomnia. In this sense, it is healthful for university students not to be required to attend classes.
However, attending classes mandatory can increase university students' careers. This is due to the fact that unlike receive the credits through quiz or paper, attending classes can develop students' diligence and responsibility. As modern society has become increasingly specialized, today's companies are looking for the employees having such qualities. Therefore, if students are required to attending classes, it is important to fight for the job in highly competitive labor market. For instance, my father, a CEO in company in Korea, tells me that a job interview typically precedes to hiring decision. He and other interviewers at the interview mainly look at the applicants' passion and percent of attendance. In this sense, requiring to attending classes is a sure way for people, especially university students to prepare the future.
On balance, some might argue that university students do not have to be required to attend class. Nevertheless, it seems to me that attending classes mandatory should force students. |
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2. Parents should express their disapproval toward the teachers of their children when parents do not disagree when the way the teachers are teaching.
There might be some people who believe that parents should complain about their children's teacher's teaching. There are obviously many opinion regarding the topic, but it is clear that parents should express their complaint.
Admittedly, it is too stressful for teachers to accept complaint. This is mainly because if teacher are forced to students' parents' disapproval, they become unhappy. This situation will stress teachers out. In fact, stress is one of the primary factors of illnesses because it weakens the ability of immune system in fighting diseases. For instance, my uncle, a doctor in a general hospital in a city, often tells me that many of his patients suffer health adverse effect from stress. They come to him for stress-related ailments and disorders such as headaches, high blood pressure, and insomnia. He finally found the relationship between stress and human's diseases. In this sense, parents should not complain their disapproval to the teachers of their children when they do not like the way the teachers are teaching.
However, if parents express their complain the way to teach to the teachers of their kids, it can increase teacher's motivation. This is due to the fact that unlike that parents do not care about teaching in class, expressing their disapproval gives teachers a chance of improvement. This can be a facilitator which motives them to improve themselves. Teachers can make more effort, concentrate more, and feel more responsibility what they do. In this sense, it brings about better outcome at work. For example, my brother, a high school teacher, used to be negligent and lost interest in his job. However, since one of his students' mother called him and told something what she did not like my brother's teaching, he had changed little by little. He started to spend more time to work, and had enthusiasm for teaching. This was because my brother felt a sense of responsibility and became confident when he improved his weak point at class.
On balance, some might argue that it is too stressful for teachers to accept complain for the parents of their students. Nevertheless, it seems to me that parents of students should express their complain about teachers' teaching.