Error correction

In class we looked at the following errors from your reading worksheets:

1. In this comment, it was drawn a picture of Eurozone
2. The structure of the Eurozone is under the risk of destroying
3. Many people may face to unpredicted results
4. Eventually, the trilogy of Men in Black is ready to complete.
5. Complicated scenario of the film lead to high expectations.
6. It is inevitable that Greece exit from the Eurozone
7. As one knows that there is a big crisis in Greek.
8. Two mains idea
9. It will be good for Greek to return of the drachmas
10. Past two years revolutions were occurred in the Middle East which were called Arab Spring.
11. This is different from the other revolutions, because the deep sectarian differences in Syria.
12. Russia’s, China’s and Iran’s supports to Asad’s regime.
13. As a result, even if Asad’s regime will be overthrown, the battle between the sectarians and ethnic pockets will not finish.

We also made the following corrections:

3. Many people may face unpredicted results

5. The complex plot leads to high expectations.

6. It is inevitable that Greece will exit from the Eurozone

9.It will be good for Greece to return to the Drachma

12.Russia, China and Iran’s support for Asad’s regime.

Note that many of these corrections were easy with resources like the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary or the Oxford Collocations Dictionary.  If you would like to suggest further corrections or ask any questions, please add a comment to this post.  Remember that you can post links to interesting reading material or publish your own summaries on this blog and I will be VERY HAPPY to respond.

Feedback on Reading Worksheets

Below, I have tried to write corrected versions of what you each wrote as the “gist” of the article we read last week.  In your opinion, which version is the best?

a.       Entrepreneurs deal with the cost of the production process.  If they find a location with lower costs, they move there.  The key point that I wish to make is that with increasing prosperity, Chinese workers want more pay, shorter hours and more benefits and so labour costs in China have grown and, as a result, some production is moving back to the developed world.

b.      There are some changes in the economic zone.  The wage costs are increasing in China and production is moving to other countries.

c.       Repatriation of production.  Usage of high technology in production reduces labour cost, and I think in future only robots will be used in production.

d.      Owing to rising labour costs in China, the global economy will have to face a new crisis in the information age.

e.      Rising wage costs led to production being moved to China.  Now, Chinese companies are searching for different production techniques, such as using robots in manufacturing.  This contributes to an increase in the standard of living.  However, the company’s standard product used to have a ten-year life cycle.

f.        It is explained that economic growth in China may be affected by a changing situation, with positive and negative effects on Chinese employment and big companies with factories in China.

g.       First of all, in the text, the writer mentions general economic transformations in China’s special economic zone.  He uses a method which goes from general to specific information.  I think that in the text there are some observations about Chinese wages and their various effects.            In China, economic process is boomeranging, which brings a harmful result from the intended good one.  Developed countries have advanced technology and some jobs are returning to developed countries.

i.         Firstly, the text says something about labour rights and this affects other processes of production.  The writer also gives some information and examples about his ideas.  Workers will want higher living standards, but they might not achieve them because of technology.