true false no information

1. The country of Ecuador made more money because

people were often late. 0 0 0
2. Citizens' Participation doesn't think punctuality is very
important. 0 0 0
3. The government of Ecuador wants people to be on time. 0 0 0
4. Signs and posters have been made to remind people to
be punctual. 0 0 0
5. Punctuality is more important now in Ecuador than in
most other countries. 0 0 0
6. Ecuadorians are on time less often than they used to be. 0 0 0

15 WHAT ABOUT YOU? How important is punctuality to you for each of the following events?
Explain your answers.

Very Somewhat Not

Why?
important important important
because this genere money and
work or school knowledge
dinner at a because this isn't genere money
friend's house
a meeting with this is important in de
a co-worker comunication
a doctor's it's important for the health
appointment
because for the distraction
a movie

BETTER THREE HOURS TOO SOON�) C)

THA A MlN TE TOO LA TE. //
-William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet

16 Read the article Global Culture on page 10 in the Student's Book again. Check each behavior that
.JMS�..::- would be considered unacceptable in the 1940s according to Eugenia Hartley. Then write the
EXTRA READING proper behavior next to it.
COMPREHENSION
1. D You don't join your family for dinner hour.

2. D Children talk at the dinner table whenever they want.

3. D People put their elbows on the table.

4. D Children speak only when an adult speaks to them.

5. D A girl stays out on a date past midnight.

6. 0 Parents meet a daughter's date before they go out.

7. 0 Children call adults by their first names.

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