Joe is a basketball athlete, one day his team played with Jordan High. He thought they could win the game with assurance. However, his opponents attacked them and gained many points, and they won finally. Joe was frustrated and exhausted. And he had to take mid-term exam the next day. His coach wanted him to pass the exam, so he could stay in his team and play another game with Garfield next week. After his dinner, he was very tired. So he slept until next morning. Because of no studying, he got bad points. He found that if he has gotten one more points, he could pass. But the teacher said, the score on your test paper is just like the points on the game, you can’t argue with referee, nor can your teacher.
The most impressed section of the story to me is when the teacher told Joe that it is useless to argue with her, just as the saying goes, “What is done cannot be undone.” To say more words or more compliments do nothing about this circumstance. What he could do is try his best for another time.
Sometimes we make efforts on accomplishing our goals, but we fail by an insignificant gap. Through we might feel bitter regret about them; nevertheless, it is useless and naive when we complain about them all the time, or argue with others after the results are given out. What we can do is to learn lessons from these experiences and try again, to ensure next time we could perform well. After all, adversity leads to prosperity.
3 comments:
Dear Lynn,
I’m glad to find that your summary writing skill is improving. Keep your standard on.
This summary is more clear and definite than before. Pay attention to those main ideas and key points. Think a while after you read the article, than write your summary down. You will grasp the meaning of the article easily after you really comprehend the text.
I hope the suggestions above would be useful. I expect you could post more articles in your blog. Way to go, Lynn.
Sincerely,
Vera
Dear Lynn,
How have you been? It seems that you have learned much from your English writing class. Go ahead.
The story really stimulates our deep thoughts. Yeah, sometimes things are not go smoothly as we expect. But after we learn a lesson from our failure, we could do better than ever before.
I’d like to read the next article written by you. Your writing is improving, congratulations.
Best wishes,
Zoe
Hi Lynn:
I really enjoy your topic and it is relevant to the criteria.
About the article, I think there is a verb tense error, the sentence “He found that if he could get one more points, he could pass.” the verb tense it is better to use “has gotten”. About the phrase “as a result” you could make phrase “ because of.” And when you use conjunction “ so,” you can add a comma before it.
There are not big errors in your article, don’t worry about it. You just pay attention to verb tense, that’s wonderful. Maybe we can discuss after class.
Sincerely
Esme
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