ACTIVIDAD DE INGLÉS

GRADO NOVENO
DOCENTE: YANETH BUITRAGO CASTRO

DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS: READING.

LEARNING GOAL: RECOGNIZES GENERAL AND- OR SPECIFIC INFORMATION

IN WRITTEN TEXTS.

NAME AND LAST NAME _SERGIO ALEXANDER GONZALES URREGO - GRADE: 9-2

A continuación se presenta una lectura sobre la cual se formulan preguntas que deben
responderse de acuerdo con la información suministrada en el texto.

People can be addicted to different things, e.g. alcohol, drugs, certain foods, work,
television or even internet. People who have such an addiction are compulsive; they have a
very powerful psychological need that they feel they must satisfy. According to
psychologists, many people are compulsive spenders; they feel that they must spend
money. This compulsion, like most others, is irrational, impossible to explain reasonably.
For compulsive spenders who buy on credit, charge accounts are even more exciting than
money. In other words, compulsive spenders think that with credit they can do anything.
Their pleasure in spending enormous amounts is actually greater than the pleasure that they
get from the things they buy.

1. The topic of the paragraph is…

A. Spending money as an expression of personality
B. Addiction to spending money
C. Therapies for compulsive addictions
D. Addictions as psychological needs
2. In the sentence They feel that they must spend money, the underlined they refers to
A. Psychologists
B. Alcoholics and workaholics
C. Compulsive robbers
D. Compulsive spenders
 3. From the sentence Compulsive spenders think that with credit they can do anything.
It is possible to infer that they think that
A. Credit makes everything possible
B. Credit is dangerous
C. Credit is not useful
D. It is difficult to buy things with credit
4. In other words means that
A. The writer adds new information
B. The writer gives the same information in a different way
C. The writers presents contrasting information
D. The writer rejects the previous information

Ahora, contesta brevemente la siguiente pregunta acerca del texto anterior: what is
the most important idea the author is trying to express?

The addiction that some people create around objects or money. These
addictions turn into a mental condition, which prevents your life from going
normally
.

Finalmente, recuerda desarrollar y terminar los ejercicios sugeridos en libro y libro

de trabajo L4 correspondiente al capítulo o unidad 1.