Actividad de aprendizaje 2

Evidencia 2: Workshop “Products and services”

La lectura es una de las habilidades más utilizadas en el mundo, pero a la vez es la menos
motivante, dado que en ocasiones hay textos muy extensos y con vocabulario complejo
que dificulta su comprensión y le resta interés al texto; afortunadamente existen nuevos
métodos que facilitan obtener la información necesaria y con ello aumentar el léxico
personal.

En este orden de ideas y con la finalidad de cumplir con el propósito de esta evidencia,
consulte el material complementario denominado Integration of products and services.

Luego de esta consulta, resuelva el siguiente taller sobre comprensión lectora:

1. Find the main idea of paragraphs 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, and 12, and write them in a paragraph.

1- Three factors that combine to reshape the foundations of the modern economy,
digital revolution, international competition, cultural and structural trends.
2- Importance of each moment throughout the years in the history of the economy,
industrial era and digital age
9- The raison of the new emerging economy that is influenced by structural and cultural
changes
10- Adaptation of products to the needs of the consumer, importance of energy to give life
to new digital products
11- Digitalization, globalization and sociocultural transformations combine to produce a
more versatile economy.
12- Evolution of markets, from static and intelligent products and services to interactive,
new forms of exploration with respect to the design and labeling of products

2. Write a summary of ten lines from the text.

It talks about export strategies, traditional policy tools which allow us to make a balance
at the business level. Three factors combine to reshape the foundations of the modern
economy, digital revolution, international competition and cultural and structural trends,
all times in the history of the economy are determinants from the industrial era to the
digital age, the deindustrialization has gone along with a significant increase in services
in advanced economies, it is important that traditional industries prepare for
digitalization, as emerging countries move up the value chain, increasingly competing
with producers and services providers. Advanced economies, the raison of the new
emerging economy is influenced by cultural and structural changes, Europe has
 everything in its favor in this new hyper-connected and interoperable economy, the
strength in manufacturing now must be urgent complemented by world class services.

3. Choose a paragraph and translate it with your own words.

There are three factors that combine to reshape the foundations of the modern
economy. First, digital revolution dramatically increases the reach, flexibility and agility
of companies, large and small, creating new economizers, such as "multinational
microenterprises": technology-intensive companies that are born globally. Second,
international competition attracts millions of new workers and consumers to what is
increasingly a "race to the top" rather than a "race to the bottom", and emerging
countries become champions of innovation; engineering ingenuity and the acquisition of
skills. Third, cultural and structural trends change the nature of socio-economic
interactions. Offered by the services of a single-click or the perfect interoperability
between products and electronic devices.

4. Choose ten words from the text and organize them alphabetically. Look for the meaning
of each word.

Economy: science that studies how a society is organized to produce its means of
existence.
Emergent: that emerges from a certain thing or has a beginning in it.
Scrutiny: review or exhaustive analysis that is done of something.
Outsourcing: process by which a company or institution entrusts the accomplishment of a
part of its tasks or services to another company.
Globalization: economic, technological, political, social and cultural world-wide process
that consist of the increasing communication and interdependence between the different
countries of the world.
Innovation: modify existing elements in order to improve or renew them.
Manufacturing: a phase of economic production of goods.
Paradigm: synonym of an example, or to something that is taken as a model to follow.
Potential: that it is not, it does not manifest or does not exist but it has a the possibility of
being, of manifesting itself or of existing in a future.
Provision: action to provide or supply.

5. Match the term with the corresponding meaning.

a Client d Things created by projects.

b Solution e A series of tasks to be done in a specified sequence.
 c Engagement a A customer.
d Project b Products and services that solve a client’s problem.
e Deliverable c An agreement between client-service provider.

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