¡Descarga Understanding the Colombian Protests: Causes, Frustrations, and Violence y más Guías, Proyectos, Investigaciones en PDF de Inglés solo en Docsity! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/world/americas/colombia-protests-what-to-know.html ACTIVIDAD DE INGLÉS 1. Cada estudiante deberá hacer la lectura del siguiente artículo en inglés, tomado del NEW YORK TIME NEWS (Buscar las palabras y las expresiones desconocidas, y consignarlas en el cuaderno de Inglés). 2. Después de haber analizado y comprendido el texto, identifica una o dos ideas (de cada párrafo), y consignalas en el cuaderno de inglés. 3. Organíizate con dos o tres compañer(Os del grupo y preparen una exposición EN INGLÉS, en la cual presenten las ideas del texto y la opinión personal y colectiva, respecto a la lectura. 4. Deben hacer uso de ayudas audiovisuales: videos, mapas mentales, mapas conceptuales, nubes de palabras, etc., para que quienes los estamos escuchando podamos tener mayor comprensión. 5. Recuerda practicar tu pronunciación, haciendo uso del traductor si lo requieres; eso forma parte del desarrollo de competencias en pro de mejorar las habilidades comunicativas en otro idioma. 6. Quien más rápido habla, no es quien mejor nivel de inglés tiene; la idea es comunicarse de manera que los demás comprendamos lo que tú quieres expresar. 7. Finalizada la exposición, deberán enviar al correo institucional el trabajo que expusieron tú y tu grupo. 8. La exposición la llevaremos a cabo en la semana comprendida entre el 31 de Mayo y el 4 de Junio. ABRAZOS, PROFE SANDRA. AMERICAS “Why Are Colombians Protesting?” By Julie Turkewitz May 18, 2021 ar What first triggered the protests? In late April, Mr. Duque, a conservative, became among the first leaders in Latin America to try to address an economic shortfall created in part by a pandemic that has ravaged populations and economies in the region. His tax plan sought to keep in place new subsidies for poor people, while raising taxes on many everyday goods and services. While many economists said that some kind of fiscal restructuring was necessary, many Colombians viewed the plan as an attack on their already difficult existences. Even before the pandemic, many Colombians with full-time jobs struggled to make even the minimum wage of about $275 a month. Helena Osorio, 24, for example, is a nurse who works nights and earns $13 per shift caring for Covid patients, barely enough for her and her younger brother to survive. This pushed her to attend recent protests. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/world/americas/colombia-protests-what-to-know.html The president's tax proposal also came as coronavirus cases and deaths were rising in the country, leaving hundreds of desperate Colombians to wait for a bed at overloaded hospitals even as the vaccination campaign rollout has been slow. What else are Colombians angry about? The tax proposal was a catalyst that brought longstanding frustrations to a boil. Colombia is among the most unequal countries in the world. A report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2018 said that it would take 11 generations for a poor Colombian to approach the mean income in his or her society — the highest number of 30 countries examined. Despite reductions in poverty in the decades before the pandemic, many Colombians, particularly the young, feel the engines of upward mobility are beyond their reach. Many Colombians are also frustrated by the government's implementation of its side of the peace agreement with the country's largest rebel group, the FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The deal, signed in 2016, was supposed to end generations of armed conflict. The rebels would lay down arms, and the government, among other commitments, would bring economic opportunity to rural areas that had suffered during the war, But Mr. Duque's party strongly opposed the deal, saying it went too easy on the FARC.
