In this set of material, the reading passage talks about a new age system

introduced by the A.O Smith Company expecting to increase produtctivity, and the
linstenin passage challanges this system talking about how it failled.
The reading part cites that the company A. O Smith started to pay their workers
based in the number of pieces that they had producted. They expected that the
protuctivity and the morale of the workers would increase whith this new system. An
the initially results were quite satisfactory.
But the listening part challenges the system described in the reading passage
talking about how the company were not satisfy with the results. What happaned is that
the number of pieces produced increased but the quality of the frame decreased,30 % of
the pieces were having to be repaired. And the morale of the workers didn't increased to.
So the plan of the company failled, and the production didn't improved.

Sometimes we can't see clearly how an event is gonna end. Maybe a situation that
seems to be a bad thing can result in a very good oportunity.
Some people says that there are bad things that come for good, and I agree whith
this sentence. Some times we feel sad because we didn't achivied a goal but this "closed
door" can be helpfull for you to reach a better result.
For example, I tried to do an intership in a company in the last summer, but
unfortunally I didn't take the post. It happens that when this result came out, I received
an invitation to go a broad to do an intership in other country in the same area. So, if I
had passed in the first selection I would not have the opportunity to go to another
country to meet a different culture and language.
Other thing that happend to me it's that I was trying to rent an apartament, but
when I found one that I really liked they have already made a deal whith another person.
But, after that, I found another place that was much better an much cheaper. So a first
bad situation turned to a good one.
Sometimes thigs don't happen the way we would like to, but we have to be
patient and wait for new ongoings. One first bad result can become a future full of great
oportunities.It just a question of time.

In this set of material, the reading part discusses about how the history is a
selection of events based on the interpretation of the historian, and the listening passage
adds to that by giving an exemple of two books about the same person that had
complete different ideas.
The reading passage talks about what is history. The text expresses that history
is not an account of everything that happened in the past, but it's a selection of eventes
interpretated by a person. So, history is based in selection. The historian choose what he
thinks it's most important to be registred.
The listening passage supports the idea of the reading passage giving an example
of two biographies about the same man that had completely differents points of view,
being both completely true. The first one emphasizes the man's imperfections like his
dissiplin problems in elementary school, like he failled in the football time in high
school,and how he had mediocres notes in the same period. The second one emphasizes
the man's glorious caracteristics talking about that he was a bright student in elementary
school and college and that he was president of the claas in all the years of high scool.
So, history is just a question of create a version of a event of the past. Different
people can create different versions of the same fact, it's just a metter of points of view.

Telecommuting is a new kind of work that has been growing in the last few
years. This activity has its good and bad points and have to be implemented based on
the kind of job and company.
The are a lot of advantages of work at home, like telecommuting. When you
work like that you don`t need to get out of your house and spend a a lot of time in the
way to work, getting stressed in traffic by car or bus. You can make your own schadule,
deciding what is the best time for you to work. You can also spend more time with your
family, once that you will be at home whenever you want. But being at home all the
time can be a desadvantage too, because you will lost your contact with other people
and you will lost some very good friendships.
Working in a office can seem very stressfull and boring because you have to
spent a lot of time to get there and you have to stay all day in a small room whith air
conditioner, working hard and alone. But working in a office have your advantages too.
You can meet a lot of people, you can do a lot of friends, and you can go out of your
house and have very interisting experiences along the day.
Since I`m a person who loves talk to other people and make friendships, I think
that I would prefer to work in a office, even whith all the desadvantages. I don`t think a
could stay all day at home, for me that would be stressfull and boring. Life is made of
movement and I can`t stand still.

Every professor has his own way to evaluate a student performance. Some preferer to
give grades based only on exams and other prefer to give notes based on the students
participation in the class. Exams are a good way to see if the students really
learned about the subject and if they studied for the test. It can measeure how much
knowledge the person got from the classes and how much he comitted whith his studies.
But use just this kind of evaluation is not enough. Maybe the student just got
information for the test in the day before it. Some few days later he will have already
forgotten all the things that he studied. This is not a solid knowloged, but just a
superficial one.
It`s necessary to give notes based in the presence of the student in the class too.
The participation is a very important point to considerer. The classe are not made just to
pass along a knowledge that is already done, it`s about discussion, about create a
commun scence of discovery.The person will really consolidate his learning criticizing
everything that he listened and readed in the classes.
It`s important to measure the two things, the exam grades and the participation
grades. The student has to be present in the classes to debate and create his own opinion
about the themes and in the same time he has to show that he absorbed the knowleged
transmited by the professor. So I think that the best form of avaluation is a mix of the
two forms dercribed above.