Audio 6_1 ‐ Listening Products people buy

Listening 1:
I buy a lot of clothes by mail order. I order by phone and the mail‐order
company posts the goods to me.
I spend a lot, but I only order once every three months.

Listening 2:
I do my food shopping on the Internet. It’s very convenient and only costs 6
euros for delivery. I do everything – order, pay and arrange delivery.
Once a week I go online.

Listening 3:
I love the January sales. I buy things like electrical goods because the discounts
are so good. You can get some real bargains, especially in the high‐street
department stores. I go every year.
Go to Exercise A in the Workbook
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 Audio 6_2Ingvar Kamprad IKEA

Ingvar Kamprad started IKEA in his small farming village in Sweden over 60 years ago. He
was only 17 years old and sold his products from his bicycle. When his business grew, he
distributed them from a milk van.
He first introduced furniture into the IKEA product range in 1947. Demand for his furniture
increased rapidly, so he decided to specialise in this line.
In the mid 1950s, IKEA began designing its own furniture. It wanted to make innovative,
stylish products and to keep prices down. This made it possible for a large number of
customers to buy IKEA home furnishings.
IKEA opened its first store in Sweden in 1958. In the next 40 years, the number of stores went
up to over 150 in 29 countries. In 2005, there were a record 18 new stores – 15 in Europe and
three in North America, and then IKEA entered the Japanese market with two stores in 2006.
That year in February, it also opened a new store in London. Six thousand customers arrived
for the midnight opening. There were not enough security staff and police to manage the
crowd, and some people hurt themselves in the rush to get into the store!
Sales for the IKEA Group rose steadily, year after year. At the end of the financial year 2002,
sales were at 11 billion euros. At the end of 2006, they totalled 17.3 billion euros.
The success story continues, and the group expects to add more stores to its existing
network.
 Audio 6_2 IKEA Vocabulary

Vocabulary Notes:
small farming village – piccolo paesino agricolo e allevamento
milk van – furgone per consegnare il latte
furniture ‐ mobilio
product range – gamma prodotti
home furnishings – arredamento casa
Store [ department store ] – magazzino negozio
in the rush – nella fretta
rose steadily [verbo past tense + avverbio] ‐ salì costantemente
17.3 billion euros – 17,3 migliardi di Euro

Fate gli esercizii al punto A,B,C  di 6_2 del workbook

 Audio 6_2bSelling and Buying Words

to offer to get

a discount

to give                     to pay

to lose

a deposit

to ask for                                      
 Audio 6_2bSelling and Buying Words
to order
to receive

goods

an order
to return

to deliver

to cancel
to place
Audio 6_2bSelling and Buying Words

to give to ask for

a guarantee

to provide
Audio 6_3 - Past Simple Tense ‘ed’-1

• We use the Past Simple Tense to talk about completed actions

in the past.

Last year we increased our sales by 15 per cent.

• We usually form the past simple by adding –d or –ed to the

verb:
save – saved launch – launched export – exported

About 150 irregular verbs form the past simple differently.

buy – bought cost – cost be‐ was‐ were grow – grew
Spend – spent give – gave go – went get – got

• For a list of the most common irregular verbs, see the appendix
in the text book.
 Audio 6_3 Listen to ‘ed’ verbs-2

¾ THE PRONUNCIATION OF THE –ed ENDINGS

OF THESE VERBS

¾ 1. saved; delivered / d /
¾ 2. launched; worked / t /
¾ 3. decided; visited / Id /
 Audio 6_3 Listening Exercise-3

¾ 1  / d /
¾ 2 /t/
¾ 3 / Id /

¾ started; finished; advised; lived;

decided; opened; missed;
booked; invited; reached
 Audio 6_3Solutions
Pronunciation Groups-4

¾ 1 / d / advised lived opened

¾ 2 / t / booked finished missed

reached

¾ 3 / Id / started decided invited