[영자신문으로 영어공부] The Best Extracurricular May Be an After-School Job

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/opinion/jobs-teenagers.html

Opinion | The Best Extracurricular May Be an After-School Job

 

요약

- The writer believes that extracurricular activities - especially working experience - are essential for teenagers. She lists up waht she could learn from doing part time jobs as a student, and says working experiences would give students precious lessons, hence teenagers should get a job even if they don't need to work to support their families. A sense of independence, responsibility, and time management skills are things that collage students lack of, so after school jobs can be a good opportunity for that, the writer added.

새로 배운 단어

• extracurrirular : an extracurrirualr activity or subject is not part of the usual school or collage course.
• lament : to express sadness or feeling sorry about something. (The poem opens by lamenting the death of a young man)
• supposedly - 이 사실일 거라고 가정하지만 100% 신뢰하지 않는다는 것을 보여주기 위한 말 (지딴에는 -라더라 이렇게 말 할 때도 쓰인다고 함)

 

기억할 만한 문장

• Conditions couldn't be more optimal.
• ...older teenagers holding down a job of one kind or another.
• Consider that having an afternoon job cultivates skills like time management and instills a sense of independence and personal responsibility
• Being fired isn't the end of your career, and neither is quitting.
• You're being paid for your time.
• ...my arithmetic also got a regular workout.