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SENA

Name: carlos andres

Last Name: martinez
Date: 01/09/2021
1. Listen the audio and complete the text.

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

The average college student in America spent an estimated seven hundred dollars
on textbooks last year. The National Association of College Stores reported more
than five billion dollars in sales of textbooks and course materials.

Association spokesman Charles Schmidt says electronic textbooks now represent

just two to three percent of sales. But he says that is expected to reach ten to
fifteen percent by two thousand twelve.

Online versions are now available for many of the most popular college textbooks.
E-textbooks can cost half the price of a new print textbook. But students usually
lose access after the end of the term. And the books cannot be placed on more
than one device, so they are not easy to share.

So what do students think of e-textbooks? Administrators at Northwest Missouri

State University wanted to find out. Earlier this year they tested them with five
hundred students in twenty classes.

The university is unusual. It not only provides laptop computers to all seven
thousand of its full-time students. It does not require students to buy their
textbooks either. They rent them to save money. The school aims to save even
more by moving to e-textbooks.

The students in the survey reported that downloading the books from the Internet
was easy. They liked the idea of carrying lighter backpacks. And fifty-six percent
said they were better able to find information. But most found that using e-
textbooks did not change their study habits. And sixty percent felt they read more
when they were reading on paper. In all, almost half the students said they still
liked physical textbooks better.

But the survey found that cost could be a big influence. Fifty-five percent said they
would choose e-textbooks if using them meant their textbook rental fee would not
increase.

Roger Von Holzen heads the Center for Information Technology in Education at
Northwest Missouri State. He tells us that administrators are disappointed with the
e-textbooks now available because the majority are not interative.

He thinks growth will come when more digital books include video, activities,
games and other ways to interact with the information. The technology is
improving. But for now, most of the books are just words on a seven.

And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach.
What do you think of e-textbooks? Share your thoughts at voaspecialenglish.com,
where you can also find our reports. I'm Steve Ember.

P E C E C I R P S S K S A S E
R I C E D E S O U R Ñ O K S E
Y G E E G N A H C E I E A S Y
E A C C S U S N U A B R G F B
N M I N T E R A C T I V E R S
O E D E I I Y S A O A P A S E
M S E S E S S A L C N E H M R
I L K R N A S S O M N U S L E
S A A C S L A S N T N I T G I
C T B L A L E A M D G S U E R
R N A E E P K E R S L A D A D
E E A S T O K E A O N P E O O
E R T A N T D C O L E N N V O
N N D D U E E N A P N D T T C
E T C E R T T R O B B C S E I
 ENGLISH SPANISH
SALES ventas

CLASSES clases

BACKPACKS mochilas

GAMES juegos

PRICE precio

BETTER mejor

MONEY dinero

CHANGE cambio

SCREEN pantalla

RENTAL arquiler

HUNDRED centenar

STUDENTS estudiantes

EASY facil
INTERACTIVE Interactivo, interactiva

2. Answer the following questions:

a. What is your favorite book’s genre?

R// the genres that I like the most are action, plot, horror and science fiction
b. How many books have you read?
R/ I have read ten(10) books.
c. What have you learned from the books you’ve read?
R// Well, they seem very good to me since you can learn many things and
extract information from them
d. Which do you prefer? Digital or physical books?
 R// I prefer physical books because that way I don't use my eyes a lot and I feel
like they're cooler.
e. Give your book’s top 10
R//
 Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

 Dracula

 the black cat

 hell house

 freezing time

 the purple black

 life in the center

 around the world

 the black corsair

 Ender's Game