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Education: Task 1. Translate The Following Into Vietnamese

The document discusses making college a worthwhile investment by taking an active approach to learning rather than a passive one. It suggests students should see college as an opportunity to develop skills and make connections rather than just completing assignments to get a degree. An active mindset will better prepare students for the real world after college.

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Education: Task 1. Translate The Following Into Vietnamese

The document discusses making college a worthwhile investment by taking an active approach to learning rather than a passive one. It suggests students should see college as an opportunity to develop skills and make connections rather than just completing assignments to get a degree. An active mindset will better prepare students for the real world after college.

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EDUCATION

Task 1. Translate the following into Vietnamese.

MAKING COLLEGE PAY OFF

1. College is an experiment in hope. It's also a risky investment for


us all. Whether it is graduate or undergraduate school, a two-year
program or an eight-year one, we entrust time in our lives to
school for both a new identity and a ticket to the outside world.
We come to college with unspoken anticipation of all that will be
done for us. We expect to be made acceptable, valuable, and
finally employable in the eyes of the world. We also hope that
magic answers will be revealed to us through academic study,
leading us to guaranteed success in the outside world. By
graduation or completion of our chosen program, we presume
everything will be clear; we will be made brilliant, and all
knowledge will be accessible to us.
2. I have been a consultant to countless people who all had faith in
this magic - many of whom were disappointed when the expected
alchemy never took place. They discovered, years later, that this
powerful, magical process just doesn't happen.
3. We have been all conditioned to wait for things to happen to us,
instead of making things happen. Most of us learned that we
would excel, or at least pass, if we did the work assigned to us by
our teachers. We learned to find out what was expected to us, do
it, and wait for a response. After we took all the required courses,
we were promoted, say, from first to second year but what did we
really learn? System Dependency! We learned that the person who
knew the greatest number of right ansvvers was rewarded by being
the first of her class.
4. Nothing like this happens in real life. Yet too many of us never
recognize it. We are the same passive students at ten or twenty five
or forty four as we are at fourteen, continuing the teacher - student
dichotomy, which we automatically transfer to the employer-
employee relationship. And we found that though studying history
or art or whatever might be interesting, it alone didn't lead to much
else - like new experiences, contacts, or even a job.
5. Much disappointment resulted from this misuse of college. It's time
to retrain ourselves to approach school in the same positive,
productive, active way that successful people approach life.
6. College can become all that you wished for - a time for learning, for
broadening horizons, a time to discover who you are and how you
work with others, for setting goals and making things happen. In
short, college is a time for developing skills that will serve you far
beyond your college years, which, even more than your degree, will
prepare you for entrance into the real world.
7. So instead of thinking of college as a more difficult twelfth
grade, learn to use college like the real world. Step up and out
of the suffocating box and stop pulling the lid tighter down on
your own possibilities. Remember, the longer you sit and wait,
the harder it is to move up. The passive "good student" attitude
absolutely stifles any chance for people to become motivated,
impassioned, or connected to new ideas and network of people.
Don't be afraid to make that extra effort. Doing only the
minimum requirement is the grossest misunderstanding of what
college is all about!
Task 2. Consolidation
Passives
Look at the following passive sentences from task 1:

 We come to college with unspoken anticipation of all that will

be done for us.

 We expect to be made acceptable, valuable, and finally employable


 We have been all conditioned to wait...

 We learned to find out what was expected to us...

Now say if the following sentences are active or passive. Which


form is more appropriate for each? Why? Change the sentence
if necessary.

1. In 1968 someone murdered black civil rights leader, Martin Luther


King.
2. In the end, the brave, handsome, Chicago-based multimillionaire, John
Tomes, rescued the economy.
3. One of the greatest technological developments occurred when
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876.
4. People hope that the board of directors will find a cure for the financial
distress soon.

5. People built the Berlin Wall in 1961 and it stood there as a symbol of
the Cold War separatifig East and West until 1989.
6. The South African President Malan implemented the apartheid in 1948
and it remained in place until 1991.
7. It wasn't until the 80s that our eyes were opened to great world
problems.
8. If people don't reduce pollution on a world scale; there will be terrible
consequences for the environment.

9. By the end of the century, powerful viruses created by individuals


thousands of miles away were paralysing computer systems of many
companies and countries.

10. Hundreds of outstanding students worldwide are granted the


scholarship every year.
11. You will surely get an appetite if you spend a morning strolling
around Harrods.

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