Task 2: Some people do not go directly to college but travel or work for a short time. Do you think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
It is a general trend in this decade that young people do not study continuously to tertiary education. They choose to work or travel for a period of time before going to universities. Although taking gap-year has its own perks, I would argue that there are more drawbacks.
The most pivotal benefit of taking gap-year is getting more valued experiences from your trips or your partime jobs. Defintely, a year off is a good opportunity for pupils to alleviate their stress after a long period of compulsory education. Travelling helps them widen their knowledge, associate many fellowships around the world, and find out more interesting things about the culture where they visit. In addition, taking a year off to do some kinds of temporary occupations is not only to earn money in order to prepare their tertiary institute fees by themselves, but also to experience the difficulties in actual life.
On the other hand, if students just see a gap-year as a long-term holiday vacation, they will not attempt to improve themselves or waste time in worthless activities through the time they off. Regarding to long breaks, teenagers may feel sense of freedom and get some difficulties in adapting to academic environment. Secondly, students would forget the lessons which they have been taught in secondary school, so they can not easily link that knowledge to the one in universities, where their curriculums primary base on that of high schools. Finally, a gap year takes students a lot of money as well as time. Needless, these all demerits have far-reaching impacts on students.
In conclusion, taking a gap year is not a wrong decision. However, it totally depends on how youngsters spend that time. Besides the undoubtable advantages of time-break, there are more drawbacks that should be taken into consideration before being decided.