Use Chance to Take Advantage of the Unexpected

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 436.

Part 3

v Active vocabulary

o Study the following vocabulary items and collocations:

To procrastinate

To be time-sensitive

To leverage

To develop risk tolerance

To take chances

To handle details

A reliable employment

To be undaunted

To plunge ahead

A way of life

To excel in each assignment

v Cultural notes

Woodstock – a rock music festival held in August 1969 near Bethel, a village in SE New York: originally to have been held near Woodstock,
a town in SE New York.

Fund drive– a united effort to collect money.

o Read the text. Do the comprehension check below:

Don't procrastinate. Recognize that the window of opportunity for luck is time-sensitive. See chance as a call for action, then follow through to leverage your opportunities. If you don't, you may regret it later.

A history major at Drake University in Des Moines wanted to pursue a corporate career after graduation. He was uncertain how to combine history and business until he read an article in The Wall Street Journal about a corporate historian at Anheuser Busch & Cos. Inc. By reviewing past records, the historian had realized that a planned manufacturing change had been tried and failed 30 years earlier. He alerted company officials and prevented them from making an expensive mistake.

The history major planned to write to the historian immediately to express his interest in the field, but didn't get around to it until the end of the semester. A few weeks later, the historian wrote back, thanking the senior for his interest. The letter went on to say that if he'd written sooner, he might've been considered for a high-paying summer internship at the company.