Goods and Services Match the place with one of the services they give

Church

Bank

Supermarket

Gas Station

Clothing Store

Shopping Mall

Library

Music Store

Post Office

Hospital

Hotel

Restaurant

Bus Station

Park

Drugstore

Video Club

School

Movie Theather

Museum

Travel Agency

Cybercafe

( ) It is a place where you can buy Tickets

( ) It is a place where you can surf the web

( ) It is a place where you can watch movies

( ) It is a place where you can pray

( ) It is a place where you can get money

( ) It is a place where you can rest

( ) It is a place where you can eat

( ) It is a place where you can rent movies

( ) It is a place where you can take the bus

( ) It is a place where you can play

( ) It is a place where you can get medicines

( ) It’s a place where you can get health services

( ) It is a place where you can buy food

( ) It is a place where you can buy clothes

( ) It is a place where you can shop

( ) It is a place where you can buy CD’S

( ) It is a place where you can mail letters

( ) It is a place where you can get fuel

( ) It’s a place where you can seeExhibitions

( ) It’s a place where you can borrow books

( ) It’s a place where you can Learn

Read the text. Choose the appropriate alternative to complete the sentence, according to the text. 1) Public Services are __________________.

A) useless in the country B) created to help people C) private institutions to work D) expensive for all the workers

2) The ICE __________________.

A) builds economical new houses B) has clinics and hospital working C) offers rehabilitation for everybody D) gives national and international service

3) When phones or Internet are not working, __________________.

A) INVU offers its help B) ICE solves the problem C) INS gives facilities to pay D) A y A has low interest rates

4) The CCSS helps people that need __________________.

A) public services B) Medical services C) new homes at higher prices D) international communication

Costa Rica has different public services to help people. Some of them are ICE, INS, CCSS, A y A and INVU. The ICE works with local and international telecommunications. They are responsible for the good operation of phones, cell phones, telegrams and Internet. The CCSS offers public medical services for workers and their families. They have hospitals, clinics and small clinics (called EBAIS) all over the country. They also offer rehabilitation programs, dental care services, etc. The INVU helps people buy economical new houses giving them facilities to pay because this institution has low interest rates (9%). Also, when there is a natural disaster (earthquakes, avalanches and hurricanes) and people lose their houses, the

INVU builds new houses for them.

5) CCSS hospitals and clinics are __________________.

A) near here B) far from the city C) all over Costa Rica D) in part of the country

6) The EBAIS ___________________________.

A) gives people some facilities to pay B) helps people who lose their houses C) is an institution related to communication D) is a small office that offers medical services

7) When there is a natural disaster, the INVU __________________.

A) gives rates B) fixes bridges C) builds houses D) provides water

Read the information. Select the appropriate alternative to complete the sentences, from the previous text. 8) A definition for "Goods" is _________________________.

A) professional activities B) actual marketing of products C) distribution of goods and services D) anything wanted or needed by a consumer

9) The performance of a duty to help is considered _________________________.

A) a service B) the promotion of products C) a very professional activity D) the manufacturing of goods

10) Marketing a product is related to the _________________________.

A) production of services B) cost of the actual manufacturing of goods C) different raw material and tools to make goods D) advertising and the efforts to promote a product sale

Goods and services

Economics is concerned with the production and distribution of goods and services. Goods would be defined as anything that anyone wants or needs. Services would be the performance of any duties or work for another; helpful or professional activity. The distribution of goods and services is referred to as marketing. The marketing of goods and services can add almost as much to the cost as the actual manufacturing of the goods. Marketing a product refers to the advertising, and other efforts to promote a product sale.

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Read the texts.

Spanish-English Tourist

Guide Available Only Weekends

Bus service 222-1110 259-1030

Spanish-German

Translator

Letters, documents, forms

For information call 382-4020

Office hours

Want to go anywhere

anytime?

Call Jorge French-Italian

Translator Good prices

French/Italian spoken

222-1011

Select the appropriate alternative to complete the sentences, from the previous information. 11) If you need information about a Spanish German translator call __________________.

A) 222-1110 B) 382-4020 C) 222-1011 D) 259-1030

12) If you have English tourists and want to travel on weekends ask for information to a

___________________ guide.

A) French-Italian B) French-German C) Spanish-English D) Spanish-German

13) When you want to go anywhere, anytime call Jorge to get information about

_____________________________.

A) good prices B) Spanish-German forms C) Spanish-German tourists D) the guide available only weekends

Read the following memorandum.

Choose the appropriate alternative to complete the sentences, from the previous text.

14) Mom __________________________.

A) wants Lolly to take her father at the post office B) asks Lolly to buy things for Grandma C) asks Lolly to wait at the apartment D) needs Lolly to pick her up

15) Lolly’s grandmother needs __________________________.

A) pills from the supermarket B) some medicine from the drugstore C) eggs and lettuce from her apartment D) bread and coffee from the post office

16) Finally, ______________________________.

A) Lolly has to go to the post office B) Grandma writes a letter to her father C) Mom takes everything to her apartment D) Mom’s father needs two loaves of bread

Lolly:

Would you please go to the drugstore and get some medicine, pills,

aspirins for Grandma’s headache? She is sick and can’t go out. Your

brother is busy and he can’t do me that favor. Please get some milk,

sugar, two loaves of bread, coffee, a dozen eggs, and lettuce at the

supermarket. Take everything at her apartment, then I want you to put

father’s letter in the post office.

Mom