1. WRITING
Nowadays, the world has been suffering one of the
most important financial crisis in the modern economics
history, the causes of this situation are different, but
principally the banking system of de U.S.A collapsed,
because the banker and financial institutions didn´t respect
the rules and laws, besides they didn´t have ethics, so
people lost their jobs, many corporations disappeared
and the countries with a great economy relationship with
U.S.A., like Mexico, have been suffering the worst financial
crisis ever.
In Mexico many jobs have been lost; the prices of
many goods have been rising and the people are very
worried about this situation. Unfortunately, the Mexican
government hasn´t made very good decisions about it.
In the U.S.A., many corporations have nearly closed
and others have reduced their operations to survive,
yesterday the American government gave us bad statistics
about employment. The result was the financial markets
went down and the expectations are that the economy of the
U.S.A. couldn´t improve until the next year.
It is very important to find the causes of this crisis and
improve the financial laws. Unfortunately, some other
people have been obtaining benefits from this situation.
In the economy many people lose and few win and
this has been a constant in our lives, but I think it has to
change. People have to learn. If they have an illegal
behavior, they have to be punished and the regulatory
institutions have to make their work. They need to make
new rules and review all the public operations of the
corporations and, in the case of Mexico, is very necessary to
diversify our economy. There are many countries in the
world for trade. For years we know, if we concentrate our
eggs in only one basket, we have a great risk to lose them,
so this is a great moment to change, to improve and to
grow up.
MERCEDES Q. G. MI-503
2. *
"SELF REFLECTION ABOUT MY ENGLISH EXAM"
Making an exam to monitor the English language
learning is essential because it´s the way, the
mechanism by which every student can find mistakes
and correct answers.
Each test is a review under time pressure and
emotional control; each test require too strategies to
obtain favorable results too. Dividing the exam in
specific skills such as grammar, speaking, listening,
reading and writing is good because each student can
be much more clever in one aspect or another.
The spelling traps, the audio noise, the speech speed,
the new words, the pressure ideas to organize the
writing, the public speaking nervousness, are
circumstances that a student has to face.
The last exam was an example of this; during its
checking I could find mistakes of grammar in every
answer because I needed to change some word.
About listening, the video was horrible, the people
spoke quickly and I couldn't understand the interview
clearly. In the writing section, I lost my ideas because I
got confused about some verbs in past tense and
participle. I felt that time was not sufficient to end it. I
didn´t have a strategy for every skill and time pressure
stopped me.
In this analysis I may know that we must be consistent
in every class and must give importance to each error
in our exams because they are a checkpoint to improve
when learning a different language.
ROCIO T. M.
MI 503
