English writing learnings
Opinions: opinions against another
Everyone has different opinions about whether grade be based on performance or effort
Everyone has different opinions about whether recent high school graduates should take a
yearlong break or not.
Best strategy: two opinions supporting different strategies
Everyone has different opinion of which would be the best strategy to convince people to move to
rural areas
Everyone has different opinions about which would be the best strategy to address a housing
shortage
1. Grades base on performance
- People who are rewarded are more susceptible to becoming significantly upset over a
loss
2. Move to rural areas!
- Are not the places that people care the most
- Are the ones that the government should try to make accessible.
3. Tackle environmental problem
- People that live within 3 kilometers away from their workplace
4. Take a yearlong break
- Provides the opportunity to gain some work experience and explore potential career
paths.
- I work with my mom, which solidified my passion for marketing
- Marketing was the major I chose to study
5. Available land
- Otherwise, they are more prone to mental illness
- Where they can escape from the daily problems
- Strengthen family bonds
- Within a radius of 5 kilometers
- It would not be economically feasible
6. Training employees
- Crucial investment for a company to succeed
- It is what enables the company to grow
- Companies that go bankrupt do so because
7. Educational video games
- Enable children to foster their math
- More likely to be better
8. People will wok more
- It is a misconception that
- To prevent them from not being left behind by the new
- About our society becoming wealthier
9. Electric o buses to Tackle climate change
- Recent
- 80% percent of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere COMES from private cars.
- Making it easier to take buses
- Entirely (not at all)
10. Promote turism in remote areas
- Quality of life of the residents.
- Sophisticated economies
- Asking the government to promote their regions
- Governments should be the ones who seek to talk with them
11. Address a housing shortage
- A housing shortage
- Make housing more accessible
- Real estate
- Excessive demand for real estate but a few offerings
- In some cities there may not be enough
12. Evaluate teacher job performance
- Teachers job performance
- Provides feedback
- Contaminated by personal considerations
13. Field trips for children
- Children´s education
- Gain hand-on experiences
- In the sixth grade
- Designing marketing advertisements
- That experience inspired me to choose marketing as my major at university
- It is not necessary for teachers
14. Better to work for large companies or a startup
- Which involve solving complex problems
- Attract customers
- Carefully manage my time to avoid wasting time
15. Retain employees
- Less employee turnover
16. Journal writing
17. Jobs for teenager
- I had worked with my mom until I graduated from university
18. Young mentors
- Weaknesses
- Tech savvy
- How the company works
19. Give money or training unemployed people
- Expense (instead of spend)
20. Courses for teachers
- Teachers should keep learning and updating their knowledge
- Be recognized by their students as someone truly passionate
- pleasurable
21. Families that work together
- Effective way to enhance family bonds
- End up fighting
- So many of the family members argued (not discussed)
- Launching a new project
- Boom of streaming platforms
22. Cinemas
- Some movies are better watched in the cinema
- Due to (instead of because of)
- As long as movies feature impressive effects
23. Importance of museums
- Museum help people recall the events that have shaped their current way of life.
- In addition (instead of additionally)
- It can also improve knowledge about any topic
24. Skills for leaders
- Concise communication
- Influence others (instead of influence over others)
- Is not the case for having a technical background (instead of “of having a technical)
- Have impressive communication skills always
25. Economic development and environment
- Necessarily imply
- Damage (instead of demage)
- Would create less or none at all environmental harm
- We can choose environmentally friendly products.
- Traditional methods (instead of traditional ways)
26. Free public transportation
- Additional taxes should not be imposed
- Tax rate
- Become overcrowded
- Impossible (not imposible)
- Vehicles (not vehicules)
- Acquisition (not adquisition)
27. Mistakes buying tech products
- For a product that is not worth it (not “does not worh it)
- Because of the prestige of the brand (not the prestigious)
- He could have paid (not he had could paid)
- Approximately (not aproximately)
Speaking
1. Meet with your friends at home or outside?
A. Wrong: Understand better each other
Correct: Understand each other better
B. Synonymous: fun – enjoy
C. Wrong: We usually spent also on tips and parking
Correct: Often includes additional costs such as tips and parking
2. Children should be allowed to watch television?
A. Synonymous: Help – assist
B. Wrong: Mostly because
Correct: Mainly
3. Learning by doing or exams?
A. Wrong: By doing
Correct: by practical experience
B. Wrong: Taking classes at the classroom
Correct: Attending classes in a traditional classroom setting
C. Wrong: Taking a course about entrepreneurship
Correct: Taking a course on entrepreneurship
D. Wrong: I was deeply concerned about the plant well being
Correct: I was deeply concerned about plant´s well being
E. Sinonumous: Learn – Gained knowledge
4. Small o large charity organizations?
A. Wrong: in order to not going bankrupt
Correct: In order to avoid going bankrupt
5. Homwork or not homework?
A. Wrong: yo hubiera preferido
Correct: I would have preferred
B. Wrong: Give home
Correct: Assign homework
Question 2 speking
1. Choose classes with advisor
Wrong: On the way
Correct: In the way
Soninmous
Be allowed – Be permitted
Choose-select
Help-guide
For example – as an example
Did not approve him to take a class – did not approve his enrollment in a class
Often instead of usually when referring to a frequency. Usually is used for a typical
behavior
“She often goes for a run in the morning”
“He usually takes the train to work”
Wrong: was not aligned with his goals related to work in the public sector
Correct: was not relevant to his career aspirations in the public sector
2. New policy for downloading books
Wrong: Students are now allowed to pay
Correct: Students are now permitted to pay
Sinonimo: reduce – decrease
Went – arrived
Used to - accustomed
