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In France, more than 1.2 million women work in industry, equivalent to 30% of employees in the sector. Over the past 10 years, 2/3 of the jobs that have been created in the industry for executives have been for women. In general, they occupy half of the jobs in textiles and clothing, leather and shoes, the food industry, chemicals, and even metallurgy. As you understand, the industrial sector is open to women, but there are fewer of them than men because they are more oriented towards the general and service sectors. However, as soon as they choose professional and production sectors, they integrate into the industry as well as men. 30 years ago, the share of women engineers and managers in the industry was 5.2%, now it is 16%. Women thus represent 20% of researchers in industrial companies, a figure which remains much lower than that of men. Can we imagine a move towards parity?

In 180 words, provide your point of view by introducing/revising the topic, criticizing it, counterarguing, and proposing salient alternatives.

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By 2030, where do you see yourself?

Talk about your personal, academic, and professional growth in the future by making deductions.

What do you think will be happening to you?

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Let's talk about your narratives!

What have been those remarkable changes as well as challenges that you have gone through in your personal, professional, and academic life?

What has triggered you to be who you are now?

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At Cathy's graduation party

In a bookstore

Because it was too small for her

Red

Because he didn't like brushing and washing it so often

After 7 p.m.

He's had it cut shorter

Three years

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If we talk about wishes and regrets, what are the most important things, events, or memories that you would like to address? What do you regret about? What would you change? What would you wish it could be different?

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Let's talk about your narratives!

What are those things, events, and actions, among others, that you used to do when you were a child? What were your habits? What did you use to do? How did you use to be? What are you getting used to doing?

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Read carefully the questions and answer them in a new Padlet with your name. Make sure you target the questions appropriately.

You are expected to write approximately 250 words based on ONE of the following topics:

The Refugee Crisis and Humanitarian Response

The Media and Misinformation

The Impact of Technology on Privacy

You can write your ideas, your thoughts, the advantages/disadvantages, the pros and cons, among others.

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Learning how to synthesize is not an easy task. One of the major concerns deals with summarization and repetition. Even though we are aware that grasping random ideas from different sources is yet complex, we are in the quest to engage in constructing and owning the language we are learning.

For this activity, you are expected to synthesize the article that was sent following a simple criterion: stand out for the majority of the ideas of the text without summarizing it.

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1. What would you think if illegal substances were legalized?

2. What would you say if religious subjects were taken out of the schooling system?

3. What would you say your opinion is in regard to the emergence of the death penalty for critical aggressors?

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WAYS OF LOOKING AFTER YOUNG CHILDREN:

At home with parents or other family members

In nurseries/infirmaries or pre-school

With a professional nanny

Write an essay in 220-260 words. You should discuss two of the ways of looking after young children in your notes. You should explain which way is more beneficial and provide reasons to support your opinion.

USE ONLY TECHNICAL AND ACADEMIC LANGUAGE. NO CONTRACTION.

1 HOUR

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Agenda

Intro

Experiences

Positive/negative aspects

Advantages/disadvantages

Justification - importance

Implications - implies

Conclusions

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Future ambitions, plans and life goals

Friends, family and social life

Holidays & travel

Habits and personalities

Free time and leisure activities: art, sports, cooking, reading, films, TV, music, celebrations, etc.

Animals and pets

Countries and cities

Culture and traditions

School, college and university

Careers and work

Language learning

The Internet and new technologies

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1) Creating a presentation (PPTX - Canva)

2) You decide the topic - complex topics

3)

Agenda

Intro

Experiences

Positive/negative aspects

Advantages/disadvantages

Justification - importance

Implications - implies

Conclusions

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Colombia proposes to restrict the right to protest after vandals and police end peaceful student marches

In the midst of student protests, Colombia’s interior minister said Friday she is preparing a bill that would restrict citizens’ rights to protest, using violent incidents as justifications.

The proposal of Interior Minister Nancy Patricia Gutierrez came on the fifth day of student protests and hours before hooded men attacked a government building near the peaceful student protests.

According to Gutierrez, the government has been working on a statutory law that would be a further restriction of the constitutional law.

The minister referred to a constitutional court ruling that sank an article in the 2016 police code that allowed protests only if they are held with the permission of the authorities.

Defense Minister Guillermo Botero previously coined the idea that protests should only be allowed if they “represent the interests of all Colombians and not just a small group” like students or ethnic minorities.

Convenient incidents

According to Gutierrez, “the country has found out that promoting this initiative is important” after initially peaceful protests turned violent on Wednesday.

This week’s protests began in one university over an alleged case of corruption on Monday but expanded to three universities on Wednesday in protest at the violent repression of legitimate protests by the controversial riot police unit ESMAD.

By Friday, students of 12 universities took part in protests that demanded the dismantling of the controversial police unit and were entirely peaceful until a group of hooded men attacked the building of the student loan office Icetex.

Curiously, the attack triggered the ESMAD to attack the protesters while, according to an Icetex official, it took police two hours to respond to their call that hooded men were arriving at their office.

Videos of the violence at Icetex confirmed that no police were present while men threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at the building.

Who are the infiltrators?

Student leaders and the minister agree that the student protests were infiltrated. Who these infiltrators are, however, is being disputed.

Police said that 35 people were arrested on Friday for the attack on the Icetex building. Curiously, 32 were released and only three, including one of the organizers of the peaceful protests, were charged.

Like in previous protests, participants said that infiltrated police officers who took part in the violence were apprehended by protesters. In the past, far-left students aligned with illegal armed groups like the ELN,  or far-right activists trying to end the protests have been blamed.

In the end, student leader Jose Cardenas told W Radio that “we don’t know who is behind these acts of vandalism. In our case, it is very difficult to identify whether or not they are with any university. The authorities don’t even know.”

Whether the statutory law proposed by the government will be passed through Congress and the constitutional court is far from certain. President Ivan Duque can only count on a minority coalition in Congress and previous attempts to restrict the right to protest were declared unconstitutional by the court

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1-What do you think About the illegitimate use of brutal force by Esmad/police?

2-What do you think About corruption and conflict of interests that lead to national strikes?

3- What do you think About Colombia's policy-making?

4- What do you think About the aftermath of these strikes?

5- What is your opinion on reclaiming for social benefits to national governments?

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Colombian protesters return to streets as death of teenager fuels rage

Colombian unions and student groups have held their second national strike in less than a week, in honor of a dead demonstrator and to protest against rumored government economic plans, corruption, and police violence.

The series of protests began last week with a 250,000-person march and a nationwide strike.

Demonstrators are rallying against economic plans – such as a rise in the pension age and a cut to the minimum wage for young people – that the president, Iván Duque, denies supporting, as well as what they say is a lack of government action to stop corruption and the murder of hundreds of human rights activists.

Marches have attracted thousands of peaceful demonstrators, but Thursday and Friday were also marked by the destruction of mass transit stations, curfews in Cali and Bogotá, and the deaths of three people in connection with alleged looting.

Thousands massed in Bogota’s central Plaza de Bolivar in front of Congress and a block from the presidential palace on Wednesday afternoon. Additional marchers were on their way to join them.

“We’re heading to the Plaza de Bolivar to shout to this government that we have many needs, that we are demanding our rights, that we are tired of them not listening,” said accountant Oliverio Zambrano, 33, as he headed to the plaza in a group of about 40 others.

Saturday’s marches took a dark turn when 18-year-old protester Dilan Cruz was fatally injured by a teargas canister fired by the ESMAD riot police.

Cruz died on Monday and has become a symbol for protesters, who allege the ESMAD is using excessive force in its crowd dispersion efforts. His private memorial service was held on Wednesday morning, and his family has called for nonviolence.

The National Strike Committee, composed of major unions and student organizations, is demanding the government dissolve the force and “purify” the police.

Talks between the committee and the government have stalled amid union demands Duque meet with them without the presence of business leaders or other groups.

The committee has also demanded a rejection of the government’s tax reform proposal, which includes a cut in business duties.

Duque announced several changes to the proposal this week at the cost of about $930m – including the return of value-added tax to the poorest 20% of Colombians and lower contributions to healthcare by minimum wage pensioners.

But his promise to hold a social issues-focused national dialogue through March has sparked derision among marchers and opposition politicians, who see it as a tepid response to growing discontent.

Duque’s administration has been plagued by problems during his nearly 16 months in office, including a combative congress, low approval ratings, and unsuccessful legislative efforts.

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1. Introduction

1. Introduce the topic

2. Mention the three things that you will develop in the paragraphs.

2. 3 paragraphs

1. Idea 1

2. Idea 2

3. Idea 3

4. Connected (markers and transitions)

3. Implications and conclusions

1. Summarize and close

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China’s secretive investments in Colombia

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China’s secretive investments in Colombia

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Companies controlled by China’s authoritarian government have been granted critical infrastructure projects in Colombia and plan to expand their influence. The Chinese government’s increased stakes in Colombia are the result of trade deals made with Bogota between 2008 and 2019, and Beijing’s growing imperial ambitions.

Many of the projects controlled by Chinese corporations were obtained with the help of regional elites and the administration of former President Ivan Duque after a visit to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in July 2019. Since this visit, foreign direct investment from the Asian giant skyrocketed and thousands of Chinese workers traveled to Colombia allegedly to work on Chinese projects.

Bogota and Beijing have been secretive about the extent to which Chinese state companies gained control over Colombia’s critical infrastructure.

The port project proposals

China’s Small and Medium Business Corporation (CVCC) wants to “turn Colombia into the first Chinese warehouse in America” with its Sol de Oriente project.

The project, which has yet to be approved, includes a tax-free trade zone with 25,000 warehouses, a seaport, and an airport on the Caribbean coast. The seaport would be the sixth in the world with the capacity to receive 400-meter-long container, according to the CVCC.

The Sol de Oriente project even wants to facilitate “international education” that teaches locals to speak Mandarin.

The project proposal is the latest of four port construction proposals in Uraba, which has access to both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Three of these Chinese-backed projects have yet to be approved.

The Pacific connection

The elites from Antioquia and Choco have also been promoting the construction of a port in the Gulf of Tribuga, which would create a direct naval route between Uraba and China. The government of former President Alvaro Uribe began constructing a road to Tribuga in 2007, but this project was abandoned.

Uribe’s successor, former President Juan Manuel Santos, told the BBC in 2011 that the Chinese government was “very advanced” in the development of a project to connect Uraba’s two coasts by train.

No project proposal about a railroad through the Pacific jungles was ever made public. Santos’ successor, former President Ivan Duque, vowed to revive the Tribuga project while campaigning in 2018, but abandoned the plans almost immediately after taking office.

The Chinese embassy in Bogota has always shown more interest in expanding the existing Pacific port of Buenaventura.

During a November 2016 visit to the port city, the embassy’s top trade official, Donn Wei, said that “Buenaventura is an idea site because of its strategic geographical location.”

Local authorities and the embassy reportedly signed a memorandum of understanding about a $16 million investment in the port.

The Chinese apparently lost interest in Buenaventura until September last year when Ambassador Lan Hu led a delegation of more than 30 representatives of 21 corporations to the port city.

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Adults often think teenagers are noisy, childish, and violent. Some of them even don’t think they have any adult senses or wise thoughts at all but, as a teenager, I think we’re intelligent enough to teach other people some things, and, according to this, I do not agree with the aforementioned. For example, lots of teenagers have better knowledge in technology, so they can teach the older generation how to deal with gadgets. In our gymnasium, there are special classes for the senior people where they are taught to work on computers, and their teachers are teenagers. Moreover, teenagers have a great knowledge of ecology, and they are really concerned about saving the planet alive. We talk a lot about the environment in classes, we take part in ecology olympiads and contests for the best ecological projects and often win them, so we have a lot to tell the others about environmental problems and ways of solving them. Besides this, teenagers can teach adults foreign languages. According to the statistics, 50% of the adult generation of our country don’t know any foreign languages, so we can help them to come up with new knowledge or to improve what they have. And, of course, students from foreign countries can teach local students their language, and locals can teach them their language as a reward. To sum up, I can say that teenagers have great knowledge in many fields of study, so they can also teach the people of the older generation and their classmates and friends.

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China’s secretive investments in Colombia

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China’s secretive investments in Colombia

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Companies controlled by China’s authoritarian government have been granted critical infrastructure projects in Colombia and plan to expand their influence. The Chinese government’s increased stakes in Colombia are the result of trade deals made with Bogota between 2008 and 2019, and Beijing’s growing imperial ambitions.

Many of the projects controlled by Chinese corporations were obtained with the help of regional elites and the administration of former President Ivan Duque after a visit to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in July 2019. Since this visit, foreign direct investment from the Asian giant skyrocketed and thousands of Chinese workers traveled to Colombia allegedly to work on Chinese projects. Bogota and Beijing have been secretive about the extent to which Chinese state companies gained control over Colombia’s critical infrastructure.

The port project proposals

China’s Small and Medium Business Corporation (CVCC) wants to “turn Colombia into the first Chinese warehouse in America” with its Sol de Oriente project. The project, which has yet to be approved, includes a tax-free trade zone with 25,000 warehouses, a seaport, and an airport on the Caribbean coast. The seaport would be the sixth in the world with the capacity to receive 400-meter-long container, according to the CVCC.

The Sol de Oriente project even wants to facilitate “international education” that teaches locals to speak Mandarin. The project proposal is the latest of four port construction proposals in Uraba, which has access to both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Three of these Chinese-backed projects have yet to be approved.

The Pacific connection

The elites from Antioquia and Choco have also been promoting the construction of a port in the Gulf of Tribuga, which would create a direct naval route between Uraba and China. The government of former President Alvaro Uribe began constructing a road to Tribuga in 2007, but this project was abandoned.

Uribe’s successor, former President Juan Manuel Santos, told the BBC in 2011 that the Chinese government was “very advanced” in the development of a project to connect Uraba’s two coasts by train. No project proposal about a railroad through the Pacific jungles was ever made public. Santos’ successor, former President Ivan Duque, vowed to revive the Tribuga project while campaigning in 2018 but abandoned the plans almost immediately after taking office.

The Chinese embassy in Bogota has always shown more interest in expanding the existing Pacific port of Buenaventura. During a November 2016 visit to the port city, the embassy’s top trade official, Donn Wei, said “Buenaventura is an ideal site because of its strategic geographical location.”

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China’s secretive investments in Colombia

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China’s secretive investments in Colombia

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Companies controlled by China’s authoritarian government have been granted critical infrastructure projects in Colombia and plan to expand their influence. The Chinese government’s increased stakes in Colombia are the result of trade deals made with Bogota between 2008 and 2019, and Beijing’s growing imperial ambitions.

Many of the projects controlled by Chinese corporations were obtained with the help of regional elites and the administration of former President Ivan Duque after a visit to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in July 2019. Since this visit, foreign direct investment from the Asian giant skyrocketed and thousands of Chinese workers traveled to Colombia allegedly to work on Chinese projects.

Bogota and Beijing have been secretive about the extent to which Chinese state companies gained control over Colombia’s critical infrastructure.

The port project proposals

China’s Small and Medium Business Corporation (CVCC) wants to “turn Colombia into the first Chinese warehouse in America” with its Sol de Oriente project. The project, which has yet to be approved, includes a tax-free trade zone with 25,000 warehouses, a seaport, and an airport on the Caribbean coast. The seaport would be the sixth in the world with the capacity to receive a 400-meter-long container, according to the CVCC.

The Sol de Oriente project even wants to facilitate “international education” that teaches locals to speak Mandarin. The project proposal is the latest of four port construction proposals in Uraba, which has access to both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Three of these Chinese-backed projects have yet to be approved.

The Pacific connection

The elites from Antioquia and Choco have also been promoting the construction of a port in the Gulf of Tribuga, which would create a direct naval route between Uraba and China. The government of former President Alvaro Uribe began constructing a road to Tribuga in 2007, but this project was abandoned.

Uribe’s successor, former President Juan Manuel Santos, told the BBC in 2011 that the Chinese government was “very advanced” in the development of a project to connect Uraba’s two coasts by train. No project proposal about a railroad through the Pacific jungles was ever made public. Santos’ successor, former President Ivan Duque, vowed to revive the Tribuga project while campaigning in 2018 but abandoned the plans almost immediately after taking office.

The Chinese embassy in Bogota has always shown more interest in expanding the existing Pacific port of Buenaventura. During a November 2016 visit to the port city, the embassy’s top trade official, Donn Wei, said “Buenaventura is an ideal site because of its strategic geographical location.”

Local authorities and the embassy reportedly signed a memorandum of understanding about a $16 million investment in the port. The Chinese apparently lost interest in Buenaventura until September last year when Ambassador Lan Hu led a delegation of more than 30 representatives of 21 corporations to the port city.