DOSSIER 3

From February 18 to February 22, 2008



ACTIVITIES


In this days we learnt vocabulary for the insurance claims. We described the actions that can be a fraud, as many people make fraudulent claims on their insurance.

In the Unit 11, we read “Fighting fraud” and this article talked about kinds of technology that can be used to identify fraud.


Lastly the teacher explained the Passive. The passive is formed by using the correct tense of the verb to be with the past participle of the verb.


I don’t speak english, the pronuntiation is not easy, but in my opinion is important for the life, specially in the career.

DOSSIER 2

From February 11 to February 15


ACTIVITIES


In the second week we worked with the Unit 10 “Pushing down prices”. We talked about Price trends, and the students explained what kinds of products or services are increasing in price at the moment, also what kinds of products are getting cheaper.

We read an article “Make it cheaper and cheaper” , it talked about big supermarkets can offer food at lower prices because they can buy in large quantities.

The teacher taught us transitive (push down, raise) and intransitive ( go down, rise) verbs and so we chose the correct verbs in a text.

Finally, I learned that we form Present perfect by using the past participle of the verb with has or have.

DOSSIER 1

From February 4 to February 8, 2008


ACTIVITIES


In this first week we started with the Unit 9 “Hard to reach”, and the topics that the teacher taught were:

© Promoting the product, in which the companies use a different methods to promote and sell their products or services.
© We worked with Modals of obligation
© We read an article “Marketing to students”, and we did a dilemma in groups about it.
© Also we completed sentences with new words and phrases from the article.
© We completed a table with Noun, Person and Verb for example: analysis, analyst and analyze.
© I did a homework about When we sell a product and I wrote some rules that teh companies have to follow for sell a product o service.
© A topic very interesting was Making suggestions, because if I’m part of a team is important contribute ideas, besides we can use this phrases every day.

FIGHTING FRAUD

READING 1


1.- HOW MUCH INSURANCE FRAUD COST IN US?
Insurance fraud costs Americans $80 billion a year ( $950 per family).


2.- WHAT TWO KINDS OF TECHNOLOGY CAN BE USED TO IDENTIFY FRAUD?
a) A new lie detector telephone: Layered Voice Analyzer (LVA) measures micro tremors in the voice to determinate the emotional state of speakers.
b) A similar system: Voice Risk Analyzer (VRA), is already in use in the UK and has helped companies to make savings. Highway Insurance is a UK-based auto underwriter that uses the VRA in their fraud detection programs.


3.- HOW MUCH HAS HIGHWAY INSURANCE SAVED AS A RESULT OF USING THIS TECHNOLOGY?
Highway Insurance has saved more than £3 million.




READING 2

1.- E
2.- A
3.- D
4.- B
5.- C

CHART 2

This chart shows the number of trips that in the spring and the summer in 2007 “MXC Airways” carried out.

We can see that Turkey had more trips in spring and summer than other countries. Canada is more visited than Rumania and Nicaragua. Mexico had 24 trips per hour in spring and 27 in summer.

Rumania is the least visited by travelers the last year.

In this chart we can see the increase in the quantity of people that live in Estado de Mexico. The quantities are in millions from 9,815,901 to 15,689,873.

The population increased rapidly in the last years. From 2002 the population has increased 5,873,972. with this information our predictions for next years are that food prices will rise and employment will go up by 4%.

We think that population in 2010 will be 21,471,320 in Estado de Mexico.