English – 2020

A2.2 Unit 4
Boost competences
Critical Thinking

Student’s name: Grade (Group): __________

Situation:
Every day thousands of objects are bought by teenagers. Sometimes they are used for solving specific
common problems: cell phones (need to keep in touch with family and friends), computers (need to
find information on the web), hats (need to protect from the sun).
However, not all the purchases are well planned. Some of them do not have a specific purpose,
especially those devices or elements that are then kept for a long time.

Activity 1. Describe the elements or objects that teenagers and you (2018) and your parents
(1980/1990) spend/spent their money on.

You Teenagers Parents in 1980’s/1990’s

I spend my money on Current teenagers spend their My parents spent their money on:
money on:

• Electronic devices such as • Clothes: jeans, jackets • Food

cell phones and • Sneakers • T-shirts
computers. • …
• Shoes
• …

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Activity 2. Survey your best friend / partner / neighbor / brother / sister . . . about the way they
consume and then design a pie chart with the results (percentage)

The person interviewed is: Less than fifty Fifty thousand One hundred One million
thousand pesos pesos - one thousand pesos - pesos and more
hundred one million pesos
thousand pesos

1. How much money do you X (example)

spend a month?
Every day Once a week Every other week Never

2. How often do you eat junk

food?
Clothes Technology Food Trips

3. What do you spend most

of your money on?

4.

5.

6.

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Pie chart (example):

Activity 3. How to identify a shopping addict? – write an argumentative text about consumerism.
Be sure you’re adding enough information and stating your points of view in order for
the reader to reflect on this.

Title:
Text:

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December is the month most families spend much more money in because they don’t plan in advance,
they just buy without caring for prices. Sometimes it’s easier and cheaper to buy some previous
months (September and October) and so you’ll be able to choose the best presents as well as the most
useful ones.

Activity 4. Plan to save money by spending previously and detail what will happen by the time
you’re to give presents / travel / invest…

Example:

Occasion: Family Christmas

Expenses: presents and clothes
Plan in advance: I will buy presents and clothes in August
Description: By December I will have bought all my family presents. I will have saved three
hundred thousand pesos. My expenses will have been lower than buying in
December. By December 24th I will have gotten the necessary things to enjoy
Christmas with my family.

Occasion:

Expenses:

Plan in advance:

Description:

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