Hi everyone,
Here's the homework:
1. To practice idioms (UNIT 1) click in the following link Idioms and take the quiz. When you finish click "Grade me" and send me your results via email or by leaving a comment on this entry.
2. Click here and read the New York Times article about Spain. Then, leave a comment of 50-80 words (or send me an email if you can't leave a comment) giving your opinion about the situation.
See u next Friday,
Teresa
I´m JAVIER PÉREZ CABALLERO and my score was 58,82%
ResponderEliminarGrade in percentage: 76.47 %
ResponderEliminar# of questions you got right: 13 / 17 Correct
I think this situation is unbearable,air controllers can't do that in such days. I agree with some strikes if you want to change your situation at work but only if they are legal strikes, not an ilegal strike like this and even less if it's a wildcat strike.
Moreover, they are very selfish, because loads of people had a lot of plans in that five-day break, and they didn't care about them.
To conclude, I think the Goverment must punish them with legal accions.
Eduardo Sanchez Callejo
Hi, I'm Pablo Antonio Torres AV1LX17, my score was 88,24%, 15 of 17, I failed the 5 and 17 answers. Bie everybody.
ResponderEliminarI'm Almudena López, and this is my score: 70.59 %
ResponderEliminar12 / 17 Correct
I didn’t know that New York Time wrote about our situation! I think this is unbelievable, I’ve heard on the radio that Spain controllers earn more than other countries, so I disagree with their complaint.
However, if they want to complain about something they have to inform to the government in order to people can look for other transport for they travels.
In my opinion, these controllers must be fired. I’m sure that there are so many people waiting for this job.
JAVIER PÉREZ CABALLERO
ResponderEliminarI think that air controllers in Spain are in this moment well paid, (even better than some colleagues in other countries) so they don´t need to go on strike.
But, if they really consider that they need to do this, there are other ways, because they have broken lots of holidays and dremas in people who don´t have to pay for it.
Finally, I believe that the Goverment must punish them really hard for their behavior.
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ResponderEliminarTo start with, I defend people's right to demand improvements in working as well as the chance of striking when they feel their laboral conditions are unfair.
ResponderEliminarHowever, I personally believe that Spanish air traffic controllers' behaviour was unacceptable because they didn't let Spanish Government know in advance what they were going to do, causing, therefore, serious disruptions, astronomical economic loss and preventing people from arriving in their destinations.
To sum up, if these workers return to a wildcat strike, they will must be sacked.
The score I got in the test was 94,12%
Juan José Encinar Agudelo - 52,94%
ResponderEliminarIn my opinion, it's dissappointing to find the same problem during every holiday seasons: There are pilot or controller strikes every easter week, every summer, every christmas...
Those workers who have the higher salaries and the best work conditions (pilots and air controllers) always choose the dates when the rest of workers, who are all the year saving money to enjoy a pair of days abroad, can have a rest.
So, Spanish people is convicted to spend all their holidays for the rest of their life in the Barajas Airport, while air controllers and pilot's bank account continues growing and growing.
The score I got in the test is 70.59%. Saray
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SARAY SANCHEZ
ResponderEliminarFirst of all I think that, nowadays,declaring a state of alarm is a very strong decision to take and that this decision is only justified in an exceptional case but on the other hand I think it has been tottaly necessary to take this state in order to control the huge chaos that controlers have caused in the spanish airports.
Moreover, taking to account that they earn a lot of money and that they have achieved more and more privileges with others strikes and in addition to that, the strike of last friday was not legal, the controllers must be punished, for example, paying the money that the airlines have lost instead of these losses will be paid by the goberment.
The conflict with air traffic controllers is not a wildcat strike but the real blackmail through the kidnapping of hundreds of passengers and a hard strike to government and also to service sector of our economy in this critical moment. My opinion is the same that Miguel Angel Aguilar one in http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/prestigio/escasez/elpepiesp/20101207elpepinac_9/Tes . Bye.
ResponderEliminarI'm Ana Hoyas Gil and the score I've got in the quiz is 82.35 %
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I´m Javier Rodríguez and I get a score of 64.71% (11 od 17)
ResponderEliminarI´m a convinced person of the rights of the workers even I agree that sometimes a strike is the way to defend the conditions of a collective of professionals. The problem starts if you realize that the only successful strikes in this country are the complaints which generate big problems on the rest of the people. Moreover, if you think that the complaints come from one of the group of workers who probably earn the biggest salaries of the whole country, while in nowadays some families have a lot of problem to avoid ending every month in red, you could consider this situation absolutely reprehensible. So, in my opinion every strike should show an ethical attitude. This is a very different case; it shows the real human selfishness. This weekend we have seen how a privileged few break down the dreams of thousands of travelers; make an irreparable damage on the image of our country and looks down on the problems of everybody in these times of crisis.
ResponderEliminarhi, it's Andrea (A1I17L) and I got 58.82% at idioms exercise.
ResponderEliminarI totally agree with the measures the government took the day the air controllers decided to leave their work posts to demand some privileges that other workers don't have. They add they work too much or the preasure they have, but what the didn't say is that they don't mind work extra hours because they are paid around 300% of a normal hour and neither do them about the 200'000€ they earn per year when some people have wages of 600€ per month. I understand they don't like the new mesures because the are not earning more 500'000€/year as the last government established, but the should put theirselves in other people position to understand how good their lives are.
Hi, it's Ana L. I got 82% at the test.
ResponderEliminarIn these moments, when Spain is trying to handle a very important crisis causing 20% of unemployment and over 350.000 Government employees who see their salary decrease about 15%, air controllers think it is justifiable to close air traffic to demand their rights.
I agree with the right of anyone to look for better conditions at work, but the way Spanish air controllers have chosen couldn’t be worst. Pretending to be most of them ill, they have run out an illegal strike, causing exorbitant damages to users, and companies. I think they are not going to find an easy way to persuade us to reconsider their point of view.
It’s amazing how those people, who are really well prepared, can do things so badly.
Hi, It's Ana Nuño. The score was 70.59%
ResponderEliminarI agree with the comments of all my mates. It's tottaly unbearable air controllers behavior. The Goverment's measures were the corrects to solve the incidence caused, but now the problem is not to extend the state of alarm declared because it's a measure exceptional and in a democracy is unviable to get a civilian gruop as a military group.
ResponderEliminarPerhaps, in my point of view, Goverment must establish with rules and laws the way to be an air controller and offer free vacances like others public employees. I think that would be a good idea to solve the problems of strikes.