EXERCISES
# 1
Write down the expenses the narrator is talking about at the beginning of the
text.
# 2 At the beginning of the crisis it was very
easy to get a loan. According to the text is that sentence right or wrong?
#3 Imagine
you have a lot of money and most of your friends ask you for it. You lend them all
your money and you have decided to ask for more from a bank because you want to
help them. What do you think will be the consequences?
# 4 Why
are so many people without a job?
# 5
Why have so many companies closed?
#6 Why
are there so many companies that have reduced their production?
# 7 why
do the companies have to dismiss most of their workers?
# 8 Where
do you think the money has gone?
# 9 Who do
the Spanish banks owe money to?
# 10 Can
you explain why the narrator says that “this
seems to be a catch-22”?
