🌎 The Gap Year
In the app, the story is read aloud and you can write or speak your answers — the site corrects your mistakes.
Listen to the story and answer the questions →After finishing school, Leon decided to take a gap year before university. His parents were against it; they were convinced he would waste the time and never go back to studying.
Leon spent the first six months working in a warehouse to save money. Then he travelled around South America, volunteering on farms and teaching English in a small school in Peru. It was there that he discovered his passion for teaching.
Originally, Leon had planned to study law, mainly because his father was a lawyer. However, after his experience in Peru, he changed his mind and applied for a degree in education instead.
Today he teaches at a secondary school and loves his job. "If I hadn't taken that year off, I would be a miserable lawyer now," he says. Even his parents admit that the gap year was the best decision he ever made.
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Questions about the story
- Why were his parents against the gap year?
- How did he save money?
- What did he discover in Peru?
- What would he be if he hadn't taken the gap year?