How does the information in the listening passage add to the ideas presented in the reading passage?
The decisions are taken some of the times without thinking what are going to be the consequences, and according to the law of unintended consequences, the actions of individuals, groups, or governments have effects, that are unexpected, or unintended.
But talking about government there is a great environment to study and to analyze, and it is important to think about the unintended consequences that may turn positive or negative. In the text we can look at the example of the council decision to ban cars from Main Street in the city. In the positive side: citizens will improve their health by walking from their cars to the businesses. In the opposite side: Businesses are exposed to lose a certain number of customers; even when that negative effect was not intended by the decision of the city council.
Another example may be the one presented in the listening: Government raise taxes to increase revenues, but customers have less money so that they cannot buy as always, so that employees lose their jobs, and revenues start to going down rather than up; and obviously it makes the opposite effect that they wish in the beginning.
So every decision that we have taken, gets a consequence, and we should be sure of taking it, by analyzing it before and creating a lot of tests thinking about the possible negative or positive consequences, in order to make them positive intended consequences.
martes, 13 de mayo de 2008
Unintended consequences of love
The listening supports the reading with an example of unintended consequences and how serious they are, even if we had though about them
The example is about a government that needs more revenues and decides to increase the taxes. This is the action and there are many consequences. The first one is the obvious one; the government gets more revenues with the increase taxes. The second one which is negative, people can buy less things because the increase of the price. The third one, companies’ incomes decrease because people buy fewer goods and because of this they pay fewer taxes to government and also they have to fire people produce unemployment. So, at the end the government does not get as much incomes as they want because people have no money, no job and companies have no sales resulting in no incomes and therefore no taxes.
The listening supports the reading with an example of unintended consequences and how serious they are, even if we had though about them
The example is about a government that needs more revenues and decides to increase the taxes. This is the action and there are many consequences. The first one is the obvious one; the government gets more revenues with the increase taxes. The second one which is negative, people can buy less things because the increase of the price. The third one, companies’ incomes decrease because people buy fewer goods and because of this they pay fewer taxes to government and also they have to fire people produce unemployment. So, at the end the government does not get as much incomes as they want because people have no money, no job and companies have no sales resulting in no incomes and therefore no taxes.
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.
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.
Unexpected consequences
The actions of the individuals or groups have generally consequences, these can be unexpected or unintended, this means that the consequences are not planned and the person or group can get exactly the opposite of what it wanted to get.
The information in the listening passage give us an example about the unintended consequences of an action of the government. This is added to another example of unexpected consequences of the government in the reading passage.
The government tries to get more revenue and the way he does it is raising taxes. Raising taxes bring a chain of actions that finish with people fired from their jobs. The people who pay more taxes don’t have enough money to hire or stay with the same number of workers. The people who pay more taxes don’t have enough money to expend. That’s why some people have to be fired from their jobs. The men who stop working aren’t going to pay anymore taxes, this way the government is going to get more money from the raising of taxes but he doesn’t receive any money from the people who doesn’t work anymore. This way the consequences could be that government will receive less money than it used to receive.
The information in the listening passage give us an example about the unintended consequences of an action of the government. This is added to another example of unexpected consequences of the government in the reading passage.
The government tries to get more revenue and the way he does it is raising taxes. Raising taxes bring a chain of actions that finish with people fired from their jobs. The people who pay more taxes don’t have enough money to hire or stay with the same number of workers. The people who pay more taxes don’t have enough money to expend. That’s why some people have to be fired from their jobs. The men who stop working aren’t going to pay anymore taxes, this way the government is going to get more money from the raising of taxes but he doesn’t receive any money from the people who doesn’t work anymore. This way the consequences could be that government will receive less money than it used to receive.
lunes, 12 de mayo de 2008
Compare yourself today and yourself five years ago. In what ways are you the same or different? Compare yourself today and yourself five years ago. In what ways are you the same or different?
Compare yourself today and yourself five years ago. In what ways are you the same or different?
When we are dedicated to live our lives, it is difficult to distinguish what we have done, and so more, that time has gone suddenly; so that we can turn over our heads to watch what has happened during all the year, or maybe the last ten years, and realize that we maybe have changed our rules, our attitude, or maybe our projects; and that right now we are in a complete different scene to the one that we imagined many years ago.
So, I can turn over my head and compare my life with that of five years ago, and I can realize that there were many points that I decided to change and others that I continued from that moment to now. For example, I always thought and had the idea of studying Medicine, but now I am finishing my studies in the Informatic area, and that is something that I do not regret. Those are important decisions that we have to choose in the correct moment, because it is all about our career.
In a different way, I learnt to adjust my mind to ideas that I did not liked some years ago; I did not agree about watching to people joking about other people, I always tried to express what I felt about that to those who joked and it was not at all pleasant for them to listen that it was so stupid what they were doing; so, they only were angry with me and worse, they did not use to tell me what they felt, and I realized that those people were not friendly at all, and that I were not going to change the whole world.
But we always have a specific goal as persons, and we can not change every moment that the others disagree with us, and it is important that we realized that we can get what we really wish. After all we are humans, but we can remain with all our original values and try to analyze what we have done during all our lives and maybe change if we do not like the way that we have taken.
Some people prefer to play team sports, while others prefer to play individual sports. Discuss the advantages of each. Then indicate which you prefer and why.
Even when I have not played at all sports, I can find that there is an important fuel of working together, after all it is not talking only about sports, we can find groups everywhere: in the job, in the school; but talking about sports it is a little bit different.
Each one has its own advantage, after all those are plays where a person can realize himself or herself . The individual sports maybe for some of the athletes are better because there they are not above the rules of a lot of people and they can train when they wanted or when they could.
The team sports in the other hand are better for those who enjoy working with other people, and like to meet them. Maybe it has a special relation with the activity they do. And I really like every kind of sport, it is amazing to watch to athletes and realize how capable they are to get the incredible goal.
I have not done sports, as I said before, but I have taken ballet lessons and I know that it is important the individual work, and when there is time of a presentation it is joined the individual work to the team work, so I have not a preference, and I like to work in group.
Compare yourself today and yourself five years ago. In what ways are you the same or different?
When we are dedicated to live our lives, it is difficult to distinguish what we have done, and so more, that time has gone suddenly; so that we can turn over our heads to watch what has happened during all the year, or maybe the last ten years, and realize that we maybe have changed our rules, our attitude, or maybe our projects; and that right now we are in a complete different scene to the one that we imagined many years ago.
So, I can turn over my head and compare my life with that of five years ago, and I can realize that there were many points that I decided to change and others that I continued from that moment to now. For example, I always thought and had the idea of studying Medicine, but now I am finishing my studies in the Informatic area, and that is something that I do not regret. Those are important decisions that we have to choose in the correct moment, because it is all about our career.
In a different way, I learnt to adjust my mind to ideas that I did not liked some years ago; I did not agree about watching to people joking about other people, I always tried to express what I felt about that to those who joked and it was not at all pleasant for them to listen that it was so stupid what they were doing; so, they only were angry with me and worse, they did not use to tell me what they felt, and I realized that those people were not friendly at all, and that I were not going to change the whole world.
But we always have a specific goal as persons, and we can not change every moment that the others disagree with us, and it is important that we realized that we can get what we really wish. After all we are humans, but we can remain with all our original values and try to analyze what we have done during all our lives and maybe change if we do not like the way that we have taken.
Some people prefer to play team sports, while others prefer to play individual sports. Discuss the advantages of each. Then indicate which you prefer and why.
Even when I have not played at all sports, I can find that there is an important fuel of working together, after all it is not talking only about sports, we can find groups everywhere: in the job, in the school; but talking about sports it is a little bit different.
Each one has its own advantage, after all those are plays where a person can realize himself or herself . The individual sports maybe for some of the athletes are better because there they are not above the rules of a lot of people and they can train when they wanted or when they could.
The team sports in the other hand are better for those who enjoy working with other people, and like to meet them. Maybe it has a special relation with the activity they do. And I really like every kind of sport, it is amazing to watch to athletes and realize how capable they are to get the incredible goal.
I have not done sports, as I said before, but I have taken ballet lessons and I know that it is important the individual work, and when there is time of a presentation it is joined the individual work to the team work, so I have not a preference, and I like to work in group.
ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS
Sometimes is easy to speak and made promises but it became difficult if you don’t do your promises. Most of the time actions speak by itself. For example politicians made a lot of promises during campaign but if they don’t apply all their promises, people star to lost credibility in them.
Actions say more than one thousand words. This is a popular expression that express how important is to act more than speak. Because you know a person especially by his acts due to is a real probe about his personality. Sometimes people use to lie and promises a lot of things but if they made sometime against what they said you believe more in their actions than in their words.
Another example is when you go to an interview job you speak a lot about your abilities but the most important is your curriculum because shows your experience and the kind of work that you do. If you get the job maybe you will be under supervision during three months and during that time you have to act and to probe your abilities. In this way your evaluation will be in base to your acts.
Overall, I think actions speak louder than words because people sometimes lie but their acts tend to be truth. Also people use to make a criterion about the personality of a person by his acts rather than his words.
LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE
Learning a new language imply a lot of abilities and changes in a person because you develop your senses to improve the knowledge of a language. In other cases your personality can help you or can be an obstacle to learn better the language. For example a shy person has limits to speak a lot in this way his ability to speak fluently will not be better.
Each culture is different and his language has specific abilities that made it only one. A student has his own abilities development according to his own language for that reason, learning a new language could be difficult according to the characteristics of the idiom. For example I’m Mexican and the English pronunciation is difficult for me in specific sounds that in Spanish it doesn’t exist. To improve that problem I need to practice phonetics.
Sometimes is easy to speak and made promises but it became difficult if you don’t do your promises. Most of the time actions speak by itself. For example politicians made a lot of promises during campaign but if they don’t apply all their promises, people star to lost credibility in them.
Actions say more than one thousand words. This is a popular expression that express how important is to act more than speak. Because you know a person especially by his acts due to is a real probe about his personality. Sometimes people use to lie and promises a lot of things but if they made sometime against what they said you believe more in their actions than in their words.
Another example is when you go to an interview job you speak a lot about your abilities but the most important is your curriculum because shows your experience and the kind of work that you do. If you get the job maybe you will be under supervision during three months and during that time you have to act and to probe your abilities. In this way your evaluation will be in base to your acts.
Overall, I think actions speak louder than words because people sometimes lie but their acts tend to be truth. Also people use to make a criterion about the personality of a person by his acts rather than his words.
LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE
Learning a new language imply a lot of abilities and changes in a person because you develop your senses to improve the knowledge of a language. In other cases your personality can help you or can be an obstacle to learn better the language. For example a shy person has limits to speak a lot in this way his ability to speak fluently will not be better.
Each culture is different and his language has specific abilities that made it only one. A student has his own abilities development according to his own language for that reason, learning a new language could be difficult according to the characteristics of the idiom. For example I’m Mexican and the English pronunciation is difficult for me in specific sounds that in Spanish it doesn’t exist. To improve that problem I need to practice phonetics.
QUESTION 6
What is the best age to marry?
Give reasons and examples to support your response
All the people around the world get married, and depending on their culture is the age the get married. In the next passage we are going to know what the best age to marry is and understand great responsibility we get when we get married.
Marry is not a simple word it is a very complicated word that means, in the most of the cases, that two persons join their lives to leave together. When a couple get married is because they love each other and they know what they want. To know what a person one is very important to be mature in all aspects, or in most of them.
Now another question is when a person is mature. Mature depends on the society where the people is develop. Even that premise, scientific studies believe that people is mature after 25 year. So maybe the best age to get married is after that age.
Mature is a good reason either to get married or not, twenty five year is a good age to get married, but some people needs more time to be mature, so let them be and wait until they are sure to get married.
Give reasons and examples to support your response
All the people around the world get married, and depending on their culture is the age the get married. In the next passage we are going to know what the best age to marry is and understand great responsibility we get when we get married.
Marry is not a simple word it is a very complicated word that means, in the most of the cases, that two persons join their lives to leave together. When a couple get married is because they love each other and they know what they want. To know what a person one is very important to be mature in all aspects, or in most of them.
Now another question is when a person is mature. Mature depends on the society where the people is develop. Even that premise, scientific studies believe that people is mature after 25 year. So maybe the best age to get married is after that age.
Mature is a good reason either to get married or not, twenty five year is a good age to get married, but some people needs more time to be mature, so let them be and wait until they are sure to get married.
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