NAME: NGUYỄN VĂN A

ID: 22DHABCXYZ
Topic for Education: “Why should college students learn an
international language?”
I. INTRODUCTION:
Hook: Is it important for us to learn international languages?
Thesis statement: learning an international language brings
many benefits for college students.
Preview:
_ Increasing brain power
_ Giving wider access to knowledge
_ Opening career opportunities
II. BODY:
1. Increasing brain power:
_ Tend to score better on standardized tests.
_ Altered grey matter in the same way exercise builds muscles.
2. Giving wider access to knowledge:
_ Search for information from international web pages.
_ Studying through books are written in international
languages.
_ Enjoy travelling abroad -> confidently communicate with local
people.
3. Opening career opportunities:
_ Proving a chance to get good job.
 Freakonomics” by dr. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J.
Dubner: “Learning an international language increase your
income from 2% to 3.8% each year”
_ Giving competitive advantage.
Ex: proving abilities of languages to employer.
III. CONCLUSION:
_ Learning an international language benefits college students
in many aspects.
_ Ludwig Wittgenstein used to say “The limits of my language
are the limits of my world”.