OP Unit 5 The Consumer Society

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OP unit 5: The consumer society

Objectives:         Listening:  Documentary consumer behaviour

                                 Speaking:  Discussing impact consumer society

                                 Writing:       Summarising and formulating opinion

                                 Grammar:   Nouns review

                                 Reading:     CPE reading and Use of English part 1 and 2

Don't you just love shopping?

... and having nice dinners?

 .. and travelling?

What do you think we're looking at here?

Consumer spending is one of the most important driving forces for global economic growth. (World Economic Forum, n.d.)

• Have you ever felt (slightly) quilty when buying a new item? Explain. When? Why?
• Have you ever felt (slightly) guilty when travelling? Explain. When? Why?
• Have you ever felt (slightly) guilty when eating? Explain. When? Why?
• Have you ever changed your consumer behaviour after reading or watching documentaries/news/debates, etc? 
  
• Can you think of reasons why it is so hard to change our behaviour?

Assignment: The story of stuff

• Go to the next link and choose a video: https://www.storyofstuff.org/movies/

• Write a summary of the video you watched, voice your opinion of this video and add this to the next slide.

Write a summary of the video you watched and voice your opinion of this video below.

Unit 5

All exercises of pages 43 – 45. 

Grammar of nouns review (p. 181).

Reading into writing: ex. 3 -6 (p. 47)

Do exam folder 3

Don't forget to study the exam vocabulary!

Units 1 and 11

English idioms having to do with food

To sweeten the pill: to make an unpleasant thing less difficult to accept or deal with.

To put all eggs in one basket: to depend for your success on a single person or plan of action.

To have egg on your face: to be very embarrassed because of something you said or did.

To have bigger fish to fry: To have more important or more interesting things to do or attend to.

To eat humble pie : informal: to admit that one was wrong or accept that one has been defeated.

To spill the beans: disclose a secret or reveal something prematurely

To have a lot on one's plate: have a lot of work to do or a lot of things to deal with.

To sell like hot cakes: to be bought quickly and in large numbers.

Icing on the cake: something extra that makes a good thing even better 

Take smth with a grain of salt: regard something as exaggerated; believe only part of something.