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In these set of materials, the listening passage is related with reading passage by giving an example of a situation that fits the issues described on the first part (the lecture). As the lecture shows, there are two kinds of unintended consequences when someone or an entity makes a decision; an example of this is the closure of a street to the car traffic that can bring either good or bad consequences.

In the listening passage it is stated that this phenomena can happen in any field or any time, for instance, the government decisions. The situation presented here is a factual example where the raise of taxes that one government decided brought bad consequences that were unintended; it is worth to notice that these consequences did not come immediately and a process where everything ended up with the down of the revenue instead its raise took place

Yara-Question 1

In the writing passage, the discussion turns into the unexpected consequences that in general terms are that consequences that are no predicted by the decision maker. This passage mentions that the unexpected consequences can have positive and negative effects, and exemplify with a decision of a city council to ban cars from Main Street.

In the other hand, the listening passage also try about the unexpected consequences but it focus on an example in government decision, specifically in the unexpected consequences of the raise of taxes in order to increase the revenue.

So, the listening passage adds an illustrative example about the unexpected consequences. It shows how a decision can have an undesirable consequence, specifically the opposite for which it was made. In this case, when the taxes were increased , the people’s money were down and as a consequence the people pay less taxes and the global revenue was less than before. In conclusion, the listening passage show how a decision can have unexpected consequences in a specific case.

asuncion Question 1

This Topic is about unexpected consequences for the government decisions. Sometimes there are some decisions that we take and we do not know that they could bring another consequences in which we do not think.

We can see this situation especially with the government decisions. In the reading we had a very clear example of this problem; we read an example of a government decision and for this decision the citizens were affected. The decision was about to ban cars from a street in the city; this decision had different results one of them was positive and the other was negative. For some people was a good unintended decision because they had to walk in order to arrive to a place and it improved their health. For the other had a negative effect specially for the people who had business in that part of the city because many citizens decided to change the place and look for another place where they are able to park.

Although in the government this situation is very common and clear we can find it in many other places. I think that sometimes we take these kinds of decisions and we had positive and negative consequences without think that we did it.