Extra Practice
In page 57 you have a box that is called "Get ready...Get it right!". From that box you have to complete exercise 8 but only choose 6 ideas and write the sentences in the form of a short paragraph.
Post your paragraph as a comment below.
In Costa Rica the cost of living, each day is higher, because the economy is not good at all, because there are much unemployment, also the inflation is increasing for these reason the price of food and petrol is increasing too, we need an industry and tourism more healthy.
ResponderBorrarIn my country, the cost of living has raised in the last five years, that is because the economy has been weakening. Another factor that have affected is that the unemployment have been getting bigger every year, because some sectors of the industry have lost power. The inflation have increased a lot in this time, so the food, petrol and property have been getting more expensive.
ResponderBorrarIn Costa Rica insecurity is what has changed more drastically in the last years. It could be a result of the increment of the cost of living. The levels of students dropping out has been increasing too and as a result, unemployment have increased.
ResponderBorrarThe amount of traffic is higher now, people have changed the bicycle for a new car and the pollutions levels have increased a little.
In Costa Rica the cost of living is rising up and the unemployment is increasing. But also, the eco tourism generates a lot of money that improve the local economy and offers many jobs. This kind of tourism brings education to the foreigners to reduce the air, water and ground pollution.
ResponderBorrarIn the last years in this country traffic has been getting worst than ever, it is also causing problems with pollution. A sollution could be the public transport but it actually has been used less every day because most people have cars this days. In the other hand, the economy has been getting weak because the price of petrol is been rising as fast as the cost of living does. But in Costa Rica the education about that has been ignored.
ResponderBorrarIn Costa Rica, the price of food has been getting high, mainly because the rice of the inflation.
ResponderBorrarIt means that the cost of living is harder every day, and the economy is decreasing in the middle and lower classes.
Nowadays the industry is leaded by the largest companies, and it occurs in the tourism too.
In my country the pollution has been rising because we have got more industries and also new buildings have made in some green places, someones tried to help taking the public transport but they up set because the traffic is so terrible. We need to have better education to care the environment.
ResponderBorrarIn the last years, in Costa Rica the economy has been getting worse every day. The cost of living each time is more expensive. This have affected the industry so they have had to make some adjustments in their workers, turning some people, unemployment people. Even now a days the public transport cost is very expensive .This is reason why the education is something very important because is the weapon for the new generations to face the world's reality.
ResponderBorrarIn the last five years, I think Costa Rica have had some important changes. Unfortunately, most of those changes are bad ones. One of them is the rise of unemployment because It have been hard get a job these years. And about the Economy (that is related with the previos problem) it si getting worse because the deficit of the government have been raising.
ResponderBorrarIn Costa Rica the cost of living is raising this is because the economy is trying to evolve but some side effects of this are the raise of the public transport cost, new buildings are made and also the price of food raise. A sad part is the fact that even the cost of living is raising the education is not getting better.
ResponderBorrarIn Costa Rica, the unemplyment and pollution have been increasing for the last 10 years. Some of the reasons are that the economy haven't been so good in consequence the inflation has increased affecting the cost of living and the price of public transportation. We need to do some changes in order to decrease our prices or find a way to improved our economy otherwise we are not going to have an economically viable country.
ResponderBorrarIn Costa RIca unemplyment has raise in the last few year, the economy has caused that many people commited suicide.People has change so much here the cost of living such as public trasnportation and tourism, this last one have played a very important part in the development of the building structures
ResponderBorrarthe inflation of the economy has increased the cost of living including the price of food,property and petrol. The last one is one of the most important because the cost of public transportation has increased too as a result of the petrol. It has also had consequences in the tourism industry, all the prices have raised up an less tourists have been visiting us.
ResponderBorrarIn the last five years in Costa Rica, the public transport have been changing in infraestructure and ways of comunication, such as new roads and the train but pulluting the enviroment through the deforestation, tourism and traffic. Another form of contamination is by the industries which can polluted the rivers and lands if they haven´t the education on how to get rid of their chemicals.
ResponderBorrarIn the last 5 years not many thing have changed. But it has been developing some improvements; for example, infrastructure. But nowadays the pullutions and the transport haven been increasiing through the years. The inflation are affecting the cost of living, it has been increasing rapidly, because of the economy. However public transport has changed a little bit by the introduction of an urban train.
ResponderBorrarIn Costa Rica recently the public transport have been having troubles, because the prices of it every time are bigger. The pollution have been present since almost 50 years.
ResponderBorrarRecently started to hear that there are a lot of areas in winch there aren´t a good opportunity to work because there are a lot of profesionals, so the unemployment have been raising.
In nowadays, everybody want to have their own car, so in the last years have been a lot of traffic troubles. something good is that now, Costa Rica have exploted his attractive like a tourism destiny.
In general the cost of living has been raising to quickly.
The cost of living in Costa Rica is very high; the inflation is a huge trouble that we have to resolve right now. We are more than 5 million people living in a very small piece of land; that’s why the traffic in our streets is awful also this produce too much pollution. An advice is to invest in our country, for example using the public transportation; this action will help you with your economy and will decrease the pollution.
ResponderBorrarIn Costa Rica the cost of living has increased very fast from last year. Education has always been one of the best in Central America but still have high unemployment. The price of petrol is high, while public transport is not enough for many people. Tourism always attracts many people but we have a big pollution especially in the center of the capital.
ResponderBorrarUnemployment has been increasing for the last 20 years. The economy isn't good and big companies are dismissing people. The cost of living is increasing, the price of food too and the streets are worse. There should be a change in our country related with the education, in the way of preparing more people to get a profession, also about how to help poor people and put priorities in order to be solve the biggest problems.
ResponderBorrarIn Costa Rica, the price of petrol and by the way of food has gone up a lot this year, which impacts directly on the cost of living and the economy of the country, stimulating that we become the most expensive country in Latin America. (According to a study realized by the CONARE Estado de la Nación Anual Report) But we also have another situation, wages have not been rising up and the unemployment have been getting bigger every year, caused by industries that have left the country and investors will not come to start operations.
ResponderBorrarIn Costa Rica the pollution has been increasing in the last years, because of the industries, traffic and uncontroled tourism as a consequence all of this facts the pollution has grown. Costa Rica is been afected for the world crisis that produced more unemployment in our country and because of the crisis the cost of living has raised, becoming harder to pay bills for regular people.
ResponderBorrarThe economy of Costa Rica is now a dificult answer, because of the cost of living. we have advantaged in education. we have been having problems with the unemployment since the industry is getting out. i think Costa Rica could try focus on tourism
ResponderBorrarSince 2008 the economy all over the world has been getting weaker every day, of course this affected Costa Rica as well, the cost of life is higher than a few years ago, students needs to get a loan to pay their own education, another problem that we can see in our country is the price of the petrol and the awful traffic in the cities but we have a solution: use the public transport, this can reduces the number of vehicles in the streets and the pollution that all that vehicles produced during the day.
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