CLASSIFICATION OF COMPONENTS OF WRITTEN SPEECH

YERSON LARIOS GOMEZ

Code: 04443

ENGLISH COURSE 4B LEVEL 2332-1

TEACHER CLAUDIA SUMOZA ALFARO

FACULTY OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

X SEMESTER

2019
3 FUPA – Classification of components of written speech

Pronouns
Nouns
Verb TO BE
Action Verbs
Simple Present Tense Auxiliaries
Definite Articles ("The")
Indefinite Articles ("a", "an")
Connectors
Possessives
Prepositions of time, movements,
place
Determinants
Demonstratives
Adjectives
Adverbs

TEXT 1: I have a strange hobby. It’s visiting factories. I’m really interested to see
how things work and how they are made. I’ve learnt so many things on my factory
visits. Factories are amazing. They are like mini cities. The thing that surprises me
most is how everything works together. Everyone knows exactly what to do and
when to do it. Even the robots. Car factories are cool, but very noisy. A car assembly
line is like a giant ballet dance with everything moving perfectly together. It’s quite
easy to visit factories. All you have to do is go to their home page and see if they
have visiting times, or write to them. The best factories to visit are ones that produce
food and drinks. You always get free stuff. Unfortunately you don’t get a free car at
car factories.

TEXT 2: Business isn’t so good at the moment. In fact, it’s the worst time for
businesses for decades. Many businesses are going bust because of the global
financial crisis. Even sound businesses like the car industry and electronics are
going through a really bad time. Many small businesses have gone out of business.
It’s a real shame because so many lives are being ruined. With a lot
of businesses it’s a real fight for survival. I really respect people for trying to make a
go of their business. I don’t have much business sense. I wouldn’t know where to
start in opening my own business. I suppose the best thing would be to look at
business startups on the Internet. An online business might be good. There seems
to be less risk.

TEXT 3: Choosing a career is one of the biggest decisions we make in life. It used
to be that we chose only one career. People would start a job when they were 18,
19 or 20 and stay in that same career for life. Their career path was quite
straightforward. Nowadays, it is normal for people to change careers, five, six, seven
times. New technology and globalization means things change quickly. We need to
study and keep up with all the changes. I’ve had four different careers now. I like
moving from one job to another. It means life never gets boring. It’s much better to
keep learning different things in different careers. I have no idea what career I’ll
choose next. Perhaps one that doesn’t even exists today.

TEXT 4: I think the idea of genetic engineering is fascinating. It’s also quite
dangerous. Fiddling around with what makes us human might make us less human.
We could end up creating a Frankenstein’s monster. The idea of genetic engineering
has been around for centuries. Scientists have always wanted to change us. The
real breakthrough came in the latter half of last century. Geneticists cracked the
genetic code and found ways of altering our genes. Now they can clone animals and
reproduce human tissue and organs. I don’t think it’ll be too long before scientists
clone a person. Once all the fuss has died down, younger generations will be more
accepting of genetic engineering. We might even live to be two hundred years old.

TEXT 5: What does globalization mean? We always hear this word on TV and read
about it in newspapers. It means the world is now a village – the global village. The
world has become smaller. Of course, the world did not shrink and it isn’t a village.
Because of better transport, the Internet and more trading between countries, it is
easier to do business. Japanese car makers have factories in Thailand; American
computer companies employ thousands of people in China. That’s globalization. And
don’t forget the millions of call centre jobs in India that workers in America and
Europe used to do. Globalization also means it is easier to work in another country.
Is globalization a good or bad thing? That’s a difficult question to answer.

TEXT 6: Leadership is a word we hear a lot nowadays. Every time we turn on the
news we hear about how important leadership is. Especially strong leadership.
American presidents often talk about the importance of leadership. I suppose they’re
right. It’s important that someone takes responsibility and shows leadership. With
the right leaders, we can achieve success. But not every leader shows leadership.
In many countries around the world, there are corrupt leaders. They do not have
good leadership skills, they simply control people by fear. Good leadership is being
respected by everyone and getting the job done. It’s important to have good
leadership in companies too, except many of the banks’ leaders have not shown
such good leadership.

TEXT 7: Marketing is a funny thing. Sometimes I like it, other times I hate it. There
is definitely an art to marketing. Some of the advertising campaigns you see are the
work of a genius. Someone has thought of a great idea, slogan and advertising
campaign to sell us or tell us something. I like it when I can see the creativity. There
are other kinds of marketing that make me angry. Ads and campaigns that are
directed at children make my blood boil – especially the McDonalds ads that do not
mention food, but show lots of free, cheap toys. I also hate viral marketing – that’s
when you receive spam mail trying to sell you something. I also get annoyed with
marketing campaigns that have slogans that are just untrue, like smoking is cool.