Natural, Social and Cultural Sciences

The tertiary sector: services for our wellbeing

Activity 2

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Activity 2

The tertiary sector in our city

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In Activity 1 you discovered the importance of the tertiary sector in our lives.

Modern cities exist thanks to the tertiary sector. Without it, we would need to live near the country or sea to produce our own food to live. There would be no shops or transport.

In any town or city in this country, we can find services which help our daily life: hospitals, shops, schools, etc.

Public and private services

The services of the tertiary sector can be public or private .

The public services are those that belong to administrations: the town hall, the county council and the state. Examples of these kinds of services include: a fire station, a police station, a post office.

The private services are those which belong to a business or a person, for example, a bakery, a supermarket or a clothes shop.

In some cases, the services can be public and private. For example, some hospitals are public and others are private.

Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona

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ACTIVITY

In this activity you are going to produce an informative text about the most important service in your city. You are going to work in pairs or groups of three. Each group needs to look for information and create a text which explains the most important services in the city. In this activity you can use Writer [http://es.openoffice.org/].

In class, make a list of the essential services you need to live in a city.

Download this file and complete the list.

Choose an example from your city or a city close by for each of the services you named in exercise 1.

Example:

Service	Type	Example
Hospital	Public	Basurto Hospital

Now, divide into pairs or threes. Each pair or group will look for information about one of the businesses or services you named in exercise 2. You need to find out the following information:

Name
Address
Type of service offered
Telephone and e-mail
Opening hours
Additional information

Note: The majority of important services in a city have their own web page. Write the name of the business or service in Google [www.google.es] and you will easily find the necessary information for this exercise.

With the information you obtained, write an informative text .

This text should help orientate tourists or people who do not live in the area to find the most important services, for example: the health centre, the police station or the post office.

Advice: This text will be the base for your audioguide. Therefore, you need to write a short text which later you will read aloud. The text must include the most important points about the service. So the language you use should be:

Clear: use a standard register: not too formal but not colloquial.
Direct: direct yourselves at the listener and don’t wander off track.
Write the sentences using a logical structure in English : subject + verb + predicate.
Use the present tense.

The text should be clear and easy to understand. Don’t forget to Save it when you finish!.

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Informative text

Definition:
The expository text is also known as the informative text. It’s prime function is to transmit information. It is not limited to simple data but adds explainations and descriptions with examples and analogies.

For this reason, it is used in all the sciences, physics, mathematics, biologies and social sciences, as the central objective of science is to provide explainations of the characteristic phenomena of each subject.

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The tertiary sector: services for our wellbeing