Discuss the following in small groups.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 477.
Express your agreement or disagreement with the following quotes.
SPEAKING
- The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. (Erma Bombeck)
2. A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist. (Franklin P. Jones)
3. When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. (Elayne Boosler)
4. The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. (Marcelene Cox)
5. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. (Oscar Wilde)
6. We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls. (Bill Bryson)
- Why do you think shopping is more popular with women than with men?
- How has the way we shop changed over the last fifty years? What has allowed these changes to happen?
- We've already seen an explosion of shopping on the Internet. Do you think this trend is going to continue? Do you agree that this kind of shopping is convenient? Why?
60. Work in pairs. Ask a partner:
- how often they go shopping
- who is responsible for food and household shopping
- where they spend most of their money
- what their favourite shop is.
61. Discuss with a partner which of these shopping methods you regularly use:
· visiting shops
- ordering by telephone
- online shopping
- mail-order catalogues
- digital TV shopping channels
62. Give a talk on shopping. Remember to discuss:
· why people can't do without shopping
· whether shopping is more popular with men or women, why
· who does most of the shopping in your family and where
· whether shopping over the Internet will become the main way of buying things in the future, why/why not