FIRST CLASS: Primera clase (one hour)

Palabras desconocidas.

Bargain: Negociar Disrupts: Interrumpir

Unfulfilled: Incumplido Deceit: Engaño

Disappointment: Decepción
Gambling: Juego

Stereotypical: Estereotípico Stalking: Acecho

Luring: Atraer Damn: Maldición

Outspent: Gastado Thrill: Emoción

Average: Promedio Fades: Desvanece

Teenagers: Adolescentes Hoarders: Acumuladores

Showed: Mostró

Self-esteem: Autoestima

Buyers: Compradores Internship: Pasantía

Reassess: Revalorar

Flush: Rubor

Verbos en Presente simple.

Buy

Spend

Say

Shop

Bring

Speed
Hard

Work

Fast

Think

Have

Disrupt

Better

Do

Verbos en Pasado simple.

Showed

Followed

Shopped

Spent

Grew

Tought

Had

Got
SECOND CLASS: Segunda clase (one hour)

Match the words from the text with their meaning on the right. (Une las palabras del texto con
sus significados a su derecha)

1) compulsive a) warning/sign

2) egg on b) desire/wish

3) tempting c) to attract

4) urge d) obsessive

5) luring e) to triumph over

6) disrupts f) to encourage

7) tip-off g) to interfere with

8) overcome h) appealing

 Read this text on consumerism and complete it with the words below: (Lee este texto
sobre el consumismo y complétalo con las palabras aquí debajo)
 buying  unnecessary  bored  purchase  behavior  ads  shoppers  need

A recent survey has found that one in 20 American adults ___ purchase___(1) things they may
not even want or never __ need____(2) or use. In today’s world of consumerism, where we are
constantly bombarded by ____ ads______ (3), men are just as likely as women to suffer from
compulsive ____buying_____ (4). Gone seem to be the days when women dragged their
_______bored_____ (5) men around shopping centers. The new research from Stanford
University has revealed that men are now just as avid and compulsive _______ shoppers_______
(6) as their female counterparts. Researcher Dr Lorrin Koram said that the numbers of men who
indulge in _______unnecessary_______ (7) shopping sprees has rocketed: "That's the biggest
surprise - men engage in this _______ behavior________(8) almost as commonly as women," he
said.

THIRD CLASS: Tercera clase (one hour)

why people are victims of consumerism and at what cost.

People today are more consumerist because we have a prolonged or material quality of life,
in which prices are indicators of need, which we encourage economically.

Certainly, nowadays consumption is inevitable. As consumers, we have a series of needs

that they cover, and for this we are opposed in the commercial circuit that has been in
operation for centuries.

What about you?

I do not consider myself a consumerist, I only use what is necessary. Like my phone
annually, neither a car nor a motorcycle I am not one of those eccentric people, I have
these, I only buy what is necessary, because what we spend unnecessarily, someone else
would save his life. I'm talking about the money we spend on toilets.

Are you a victim as well?

If I am or so to speak, some of us are victims of consumption, since this generates the

uncertainty of ourselves, whether due to the material and the unnecessary, that consumes us
daily.