This document provides exercises to practice vocabulary, cognates, morphology, and comprehension. It includes a dictionary exercise to find the meanings of words, an exercise to identify cognates and false cognates in a passage, and exercises analyzing word composition, functions, and interpreting passages. The passages discuss industrial engineering and improving project management productivity and quality.

1. EJERCICIO N° 1: Ubique con la ayuda del diccionario el significado de las siguientes
palabras:
PALABRA SIGNIFICADO PALABRA SIGNIFICADO
Exit CAN (v.a y s):
Fan EMBARRASED
Success LIBRARY:
Inside Red:
Plane Fabric:
Fabric: Assist:
Brave: Pan:
Large: Lecture:
Realize Notice
EJERCICIO N° 2: Lea el fragmento siguiente y extraiga los cognados y los falsos
cognados presentes en él.

2. Collaborative Intelligence. By Russ Linden
Are your institutions leaders talking about collaboration now more than
five or six years ago? Are you seeing considerably more collaboration in your
agency today?
When I pose these questions to managers, 80 to 90 percent answer “yes” to the first
question, but less than 30 percent answer “yes” to the second question. Why is there this
yawning gap between the rhetoric and the reality about collaboration?
Increasing the level of collaboration in an organization requires a major culture
change. John Hancock, a colleague at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
observes, “Changing organizational culture isn’t rocket science—it’s harder!” Hancock’s
point is spot on; greater collaboration is a cultural change that involves values, attitudes,
history, and professional identity—much of an agency’s DNA.
Culture can change and adapt over time, but it is difficult. Mid-level and senior
managers are concerned about what they have to lose. Front-line employees clearly see the
need for change, but also encounter a variety of interpersonal barriers. Indeed, culture
change is difficult for anyone who works at an agency where people “talk collaboration,”
but hire, train, evaluate, and promote workers based on their individual skills.
Cognados Falsos Cognados
Ejercicio 3.

3. Ejercicios de Morfología de las palabras
Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineering is concerned with the design, installation, improvement, evaluation,
and control of socio-technical systems in virtually all sectors, including manufacturing,
distribution, government, energy, health care, and finance. A distinguishing feature of the
industrial engineering discipline is the integration of humans, machines, materials, and
information to optimize the performance of such systems using available resources in the
most efficient way, but without degrading social and physical environments. Industrial
engineering training should provide future practitioners with the set of competencies that
are required to create and maintain flexible organizations, which in turn are able to adapt
continuously to the dynamic environment.
Information Engineering option
The industrial engineer strives to make people more efficient and effective by ensuring that
they have easy access to the right information at the right time. The rapid developments in
computer technology have created a management information explosion. A systems view
of an organization must necessarily address the following issues:
 Providing access to data and distributing relevant data to all who need it.
 Reducing large volumes of data into information that is useful to the management
process.
 Coordinating the decision-making processes of people and computers in the
organization.
 Designing information systems to suit the needs of particular organizations.
 Managing the evolution of information systems within an organization.
 Positioning information technology in the strategic development of a corporation.
 Taking advantage of information technology in a global market.
 Turning legacy data processing systems into strategic, competitive information
technology tools.
 In addressing these issues, a distinction is drawn between computing and system
technologies, which are clearly relevant to every engineer, and the more
specialized industrial engineering topics such as integration technologies,
management of information technologies, and integrated systems. The latter topics
address the unique qualities of integrated systems within a particular class of
organization, such as manufacturing, business, and health.
1- Analice la composición del siguiente grupo de palabras en función de los requerimientos del
cuadro:

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N°
PALABRA PREFIJO SUFIJO
EQUIVALENTE EN
ESPAÑOL
FUNCIÓN
GRAMATICAL
1
2
3
4
2- Completa el siguiente cuadro con la información solicitada del texto “Industrial Engineering”
”
Función gramatical de las palabras
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
How to Improve Productivity & Quality
by Tara Duggan, Demand Media
N° PALABRA PREEFIJO SUFIJO
EQUIVALENTE EN
ESPAÑOL
FUNCIÓN
GRAMATICAL
1
2
3
4
5
6
EJERCICIO: Lea el siguiente fragmento y realice las actividades propuestas.

5. Improving productivity and quality in your business typically results in increased customer and
employee satisfaction. Using quality management system techniques such as process mapping,
benchmarking and cost-benefit analysis, you can achieve regular improvement in all your work-
flow processes. Improved productivity results in fewer defects, fewer delays and reduced costs.
Step 1
Analyze your processes. Focus not on the people performing the job but on the tasks they do.
Standardize policies and procedures through your company to maximize efficiency. Train all
personnel adequately so they can produce high-quality products and take pride in their work.
Step 2
Align your business processes with other companies in your industry. The American Productivity
and Quality Center website provides tools, including the Process Classification Framework, to help
you improve your company’s business performance.
Step 3
Develop performance measurements. Benchmark your current processes, identify problems, predict
future outcomes and measure productivity gains using key performance indicators for your industry.
For example, measure quality and productivity in your customer support center by measuring the
time it takes to resolve customer issues and the customer satisfaction rate for those support cases.
Step 4
Build quality testing into your processes -- not at the end when it is more expensive to fix. Perform
testing on an iterative basis. Resolve defective component problems as you encounter them without
waiting for the entire testing cycle to complete. Implement automated testing if possible, because it
executes without human intervention and results in a pass or fail outcome that is easy to interpret
and act upon.
Step 5
Use business strategies such as Six Sigma to improve quality and productivity. Create projects that
define a problem, measure the current process, gather relevant data and analyze the data to validate
the cause-and-effect relations. Determine the root cause of issues and design interventions to
improve or optimize the processes. Control production so that defects get corrected early on before
they impact your final product.
Step 6
Value employee, customer, supplier and business partner feedback and input regarding solving
product or service problems. Measure quality and productivity gains by increases in customer
satisfaction. Use customer feedback to improve current products and influence the design of new
ones. Leveraging customer requirements in your process redesign efforts can help you focus your
efforts on the most lucrative areas of business in your industry. For example, conduct surveys or
focus groups to gather information to resolve top issues with your product or service. Prepare a
report summarizing findings, and distribute the report throughout your organization to improve
quality and productivity.
a. Marca con una X identificando la función gramatical que cumple, dentro de este texto,
cada una de las palabras que aparecen a continuación. Diga el equivalente de esa palabra
dentro del contexto.
PALABRA SUST. PRON. ADJ. ADV. PREP. CONJ. INTERJ. EQUIVALENTE
Project

6. tipically
improvement
performing
outcomes
findings
productivity
They
And
b. Ubica en el texto palabras cumplan las funciones solicitadas en la tabla
Sustantivos Verbos Conjunción Adjetivos Preposición Pronombre Adverbio
b. Interprete las siguientes oraciones:
 Improving productivity and quality in your business typically results in increased
customer and employee satisfaction.
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Align your business processes with other companies in your industry. The American
Productivity and Quality Center website provides tools, including the Process
Classification Framework, to help you improve your company’s business performance
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b. Comprensión. Responda:

7.  ¿Explica el paso 4 del texto con tus propias palabras?