There are plenty of good reasons to skip class: if you have a contagious disease or have a doctor’s appointment that you cannot reschedule, if car trouble or bad weather interferes with your commute, or if you are flat broke and need to work an extra shift to make rent and avoid eviction. Most people would understand if you had to miss a lesson under these circumstances.
Select the main idea of paragraph 1.
There are acceptable reasons to skip class.
A contagious disease or a doctor's appointment is a good reason not to go to class.
Car trouble and bad weather are acceptable reasons to miss class.
Sudden financial difficulties can be a valid reason to cut class.
Which sentence best summarizes the ideas in paragraph 1?
If you are absent, people will understand if you miss a class because of unavoidable health, financial or transportation problems.
College students say they skip classes when lectures are poor-quality or the teacher is boring, to finish an assignment for another course or to get more sleep, or because all the lecture notes are available elsewhere.
Sometimes students cut their ESL class because of second language anxiety, anxiety associated with infrequent use of the second language and triggered by oral presentations, but reduced by ice-breakers, games and regular attendance.
Skipping just one class can dramatically increase a student's chances of failing, making an absentee-prone student three times more likely to answer a test question incorrectly or seven to eight times more likely to get the grammar wrong during a test.
Coming to class regularly makes your work-group more productive, and ensures that the other members of the group have a chance to learn from you and score well on homework and exams.
Absentee-prone students are difficult to have a conversation with during an interactive speaking exam because they hesitate, know less and make more mistakes.
Not knowing the words and phrases studied during the semester makes absentee-prone students unlikely to prime their partners with the target structures from the course, making the task of remembering those target structures more difficult.
In cooperative learning environments, cutting class should be considered highly uncooperative behaviour to be discouraged with a attendance policy that prevents absentee-prone students from returning to class.