domingo, 8 de diciembre de 2019

ENGLISH FINAL TEST 2019 (CUARTO AÑO)


ENGLISH FINAL TEST 2019 
(CUARTO AÑO)





lunes, 2 de diciembre de 2019

TEST FIFTH GRADE 2019



EXAMEN FINAL DE INGLES
EDUCACIÒN SECUNDARIA MODELO JEC 2019


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CORRUPTION


CRIME AND CORRUPTION

People are talking a lot about corruption of late. A bribe or an illegal payment to an official is a very well-known act of corruption.  The worst thing about this is that many people see this as normal. Ana Liza, a very bright girl.
This time she's going to analyze organized crime and corruption: two sides of the same coin.  We come across corruption at every step in our day-to-day lives, in minor matters which seem unimportant or in big businesses where a lot of money is at stake.  
In all these cases corruption involves breaking the law and violating ethics for personal gain.  Often, though not always, corruption involves money in exchange for favors.
Both the person who gives money and the one who receives it are corrupt.  
When this situation becomes common in society, this forms chains of corruption that are very difficult to combat.
 In Peru today, mafias in drug trafficking, illegal logging and gold mining have helped create major networks of corruption to protect their operations and facilitate money laundering.  According to a financial intelligence unit, these three mafias laundered over 1 billion soles in 2015, enough to get fed 3 million children in state schools for a year.  
With so much illegally generated cash the networks of corruption that exists in this society become highly useful for organized crime as they serve as a shield to protect their earnings.
But a corruption network wouldn't be complete without corrupt politicians, who are prepared to defend mafias.
The appearance of dirty money in campaigns corrupts political parties’ leaders and candidates lacking ethics in order to derail investigations and protect illegal businesses once they have been elected.

So, if you want to do things right, before voting for someone, find out who the candidates are and where their campaign financing comes from. Don't let them get away with it.



miércoles, 27 de noviembre de 2019


READING

Businesswoman Nicole Hunt tells all in new book
by Vicki Wu
A new book is coming out next month by Nicole Hunt, a successful businesswoman. In this book, Ms. Hunt describes how she got started in business, as well as her plans for the future.
Hunt started as a factory worker in a small town in Mississippi. After five years she was the manager of the factory.
"I knew right away that I had to work hard if I wanted to succeed," Hunt explains in her book.
Today, Nicole Hunt is president of her own company. She owns three factories and is looking for a new location for a fourth one. She still lives in Mississippi but is often out of town on business. She says that she doesn't mind traveling and prefers to be busy.
Ms. Hunt is currently working on a new project. She is starting a group to help other women succeed in business. "It's going to be an information center for all women interested in starting their own business," Hunt says.
"It's not impossible to start from nothing and succeed. But it's necessary to work hard and never give up. I owe my success to hard work and a little luck."


martes, 19 de noviembre de 2019

The Kid Who Started a Bank


THE KID WHO STARTED A BANK



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When Jose Adolfo Quisocala was seven years old, he decided he wanted to open a bank. 
It would be a bank for kids in his town of Arequipa, Peru. 
The bank would allow the children to save money, and help them get out of poverty.
Quisocala came up with the idea when he realized that other kids in his town didn't understand the importance of saving money. Many of his classmates spent the little money they had on toys or candy. He also saw children his age working instead of going to school. They were earning money for their families. Quisocala wanted to enable these children to save some of this money for the future.
At first, Quisocala - together with his father - looked for existing banks where children could open savings accounts. But the banks required a certain amount of money in order to open an account. The amount was much too high for the kids in Arequipa.
So, when Quisocala was 11 years old, he fulfilled his dream and opened his own bank, Banco del Estudiante Bartselana. At first, the bank had 20 customers. Today, Banco del Estudiante Bartselana offers loans, microinsurance, and other financial services to more than 2,000 children between the ages of 10 and 18. The kids also have personal debit cards to withdraw money from cash machines.
Banco del Estudiante Bartselana sets savings goals, and children can only withdraw money once they reach a goal. In order to make Banco del Estudiante Bartselana accessible to as many kids as possible, kids can "deposit" recyclables instead of money. Children can bring in items such as plastic bottles, used notebooks and old flip flops. This allows kids without any cash to start and grow their own savings accounts. Quisocala's "eco-bank" gives the children credit on their account according to the number of recyclables they deposit. They send  the recyclables to a local recycling company. So, while learning to manage their money, the children are also learning to care for the environment.
Quisocala has many international awards, including the Children's Climate Prize, which focuses on protecting the environment. He won the prize in 2018, when he was 13 years old. As Quisocala says, "Children are the hope for tomorrow and our environment."