The document lists various places where people can access different services, such as banks, supermarkets, gas stations, clothing stores, shopping malls, libraries, music stores, post offices, hospitals, hotels, restaurants, bus stations, parks, drugstores, video clubs, schools, movie theaters, museums, travel agencies, and cybercafes. It then provides a matching activity to connect each place with the service it provides, such as getting money at a bank, eating at a restaurant, mailing letters at a post office, and learning at a school.

1. GOOD AND SERVICES

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Match the place with one of the services they give
Bank
Supermarket
Gas Station
Clothing Store
Shopping Mall
Library
Music Store
Post Office
Hospital
Hotel
Restaurant
Bus Station
Park
Drugstore
Video Club
School
Movie Theater
Museum
Travel Agency
Cybercafé
It is a place where
( ) you can buy Tickets
( ) you can surf the web
( ) you can watch movies
( ) you can get money
( ) you can rest
( ) you can eat
( ) you can rent movies
( ) you can take the bus
( ) you can play
( ) you can get medicines
( ) you can get health services
( ) you can buy food
( ) you can buy clothes
( ) you can shop
( ) You can buy CD’S
( ) you can mail letters
( ) you can get fuel
( ) you can see exhibitions
( ) you can borrow books
( ) you can learn
Match the place with one of the services they give
Bank
Supermarket
Gas Station
Clothing Store
Shopping Mall
Library
Music Store
Post Office
Hospital
Hotel
Restaurant
Bus Station
Park
Drugstore
Video Club
School
Movie Theater
Museum
Travel Agency
Cybercafé
It is a place where
( ) you can buy Tickets
( ) you can surf the web
( ) you can watch movies
( ) you can get money
( ) you can rest
( ) you can eat
( ) you can rent movies
( ) you can take the bus
( ) you can play
( ) you can get medicines
( ) you can get health services
( ) you can buy food
( ) you can buy clothes
( ) you can shop
( ) You can buy CD’S
( ) you can mail letters
( ) you can get fuel
( ) you can see exhibitions
( ) you can borrow books
( ) you can learn

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Read the text.
Choose the appropriate alternative to complete the sentence, according to the text.
1) Public Services are __________________.
A) useless in the country
B) created to help people
C) private institutions to work
D) expensive for all the workers
2) The ICE __________________.
A) builds economical new houses
B) has clinics and hospital working
C) offers rehabilitation for everybody
D) gives national and international service
3) When phones or Internet are not working, __________________.
A) INVU offers its help
B) ICE solves the problem
C) INS gives facilities to pay
D) A y A has low interest rates
Costa Rica has different public services to help people. Some of them are
ICE, INS, CCSS, A y A and INVU. The ICE works with local and international
telecommunications. They are responsible for the good operation of
phones, cell phones, telegrams and Internet. The CCSS offers public
medical services for workers and their families. They have hospitals, clinics
and small clinics (called EBAIS) all over the country. They also offer
rehabilitation programs, dental care services, etc. The INVU helps people
buy economical new houses giving them facilities to pay because this
institution has low interest rates (9%). Also, when there is a natural disaster
(earthquakes, avalanches and hurricanes) and people lose their houses, the
INVU builds new houses for them.

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4) The CCSS helps people that need __________________.
A) public services
B) Medical services
C) new homes at higher prices
D) international communication
5) CCSS hospitals and clinics are __________________.
A) near here
B) far from the city
C) all over Costa Rica
D) in part of the country
6) The EBAIS ___________________________.
A) gives people some facilities to pay
B) helps people who lose their houses
C) is an institution related to communication
D) is a small office that offers medical services
7) When there is a natural disaster, the INVU __________________.
A) gives rates
B) fixes bridges
C) builds houses
D) provides water

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Read the information.
Select the appropriate alternative to complete the sentences, from the previous text.
8) A definition for "Goods" is _________________________.
A) professional activities
B) actual marketing of products
C) distribution of goods and services
D) anything wanted or needed by a consumer
9) The performance of a duty to help is considered _________________________.
A) a service
B) the promotion of products
C) a very professional activity
D) the manufacturing of goods
10) Marketing a product is related to the _________________________.
A) production of services
B) cost of the actual manufacturing of goods
C) different raw material and tools to make goods
D) advertising and the efforts to promote a product sale
Goods and services
Economics is concerned with the production and distribution of goods and
services. Goods would be defined as anything that anyone wants or needs. Services
would be the performance of any duties or work for another; helpful or professional
activity. The distribution of goods and services is referred to as marketing. The
marketing of goods and services can add almost as much to the cost as the actual
manufacturing of the goods. Marketing a product refers to the advertising, and other
efforts to promote a product sale.
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Read the texts.
Spanish-English Tourist
Guide Available Only
Weekends
Bus service
222-1110
259-1030
Spanish-German
Translator
Letters, documents, forms
For information call
382-4020
Office hours
Want to go anywhere
anytime?
Call Jorge
French-Italian
Translator
Good prices
French/Italian spoken
222-1011
Select the appropriate alternative to complete the sentences, from the previous
information.
11) If you need information about a Spanish German translator call __________________.
A) 222-1110
B) 382-4020
C) 222-1011
D) 259-1030
12) If you have English tourists and want to travel on weekends ask for information to a
___________________ guide.
A) French-Italian
B) French-German
C) Spanish-English
D) Spanish-German
13) When you want to go anywhere, anytime call Jorge to get information about
_____________________________.
A) good prices
B) Spanish-German forms
C) Spanish-German tourists
D) the guide available only weekends

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Read the following memorandum.
Choose the appropriate alternative to complete the sentences, from the previous text.
14) Mom __________________________.
A) wants Lolly to take her father at the post office
B) asks Lolly to buy things for Grandma
C) asks Lolly to wait at the apartment
D) needs Lolly to pick her up
15) Lolly’s grandmother needs __________________________.
A) pills from the supermarket
B) some medicine from the drugstore
C) eggs and lettuce from her apartment
D) bread and coffee from the post office
16) Finally, ______________________________.
A) Lolly has to go to the post office
B) Grandma writes a letter to her father
C) Mom takes everything to her apartment
D) Mom’s father needs two loaves of bread
Lolly:
Would you please go to the drugstore and get some medicine, pills,
aspirins for Grandma’s headache? She is sick and can’t go out. Your
brother is busy and he can’t do me that favor. Please get some milk,
sugar, two loaves of bread, coffee, a dozen eggs, and lettuce at the
supermarket. Take everything at her apartment, then I want you to put
father’s letter in the post office.
Mom