NOMBRE: MARTIN FECHA: 19/2/23 ACTIVIDAD: 5

ABRAHAM ALVAREZ
TORRES

SAMUEL DE JESUS ALVAREZ

TORRES

CARLOS FELIPE BLANCAS

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MATRICULA: AL03049523 DOCENTE: ROMEO CURSO: INGLES 3
AMADOR GUZMAN
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1. Read the following excerpt from National Geographic Learning. Pay attention to the
words in bold.

What is a Consumer Society?

A consumer is a person who buys things, and a consumer society is a society that
encourages people to buy and use goods 1.Some people think that a consumer society
provides people with better lives. People in consumer societies tend to
live more comfortably. They eat a wider variety of food. They go to restaurants more
often. They also buy a lot of products, maybe more than they need.
Products such as TVs, cell phones, and computers used to be luxuries 2. Today people
can buy these things more easily than ever before. The market for these goods is
growing faster all the time. Consumer societies encourage people to
buy bigger and better products. For example, “smarter” phones come out every year.
In a consumer society, people are often buying newer and more advanced products.
This creates a lot of waste. Nowadays, many people are thinking more
seriously about the effects of consumer societies on the environment, and they are
trying to become more responsible consumers.
1
 goods: items that can be bought or sold.
2
 luxury: something that is expensive but not necessary.
Text obtained from NGLCengage/ELT.com For educational purposes only.

2. After reading, consider the following questions to write an essay. Make sure to include
a starting and closing paragraph, as well as including your point of view.
o Do consumer goods improve people’s quality of life?

yes, because the better products we have, the better health we can have.

o Are consumer goods hard to find?

 they are hard to find if you don't know what is good for your body and just grab
whatever is good for you but if you know what is good for you it will be easier to
distinguish the good products.

o How are luxury products viewed in your society and context?

well for me it depends on the kind of life you have, for example maybe it is not
a luxury something that is for a lower class person to an upper class person,
but in if something luxurious is something expensive and often something
showy.

o Do consumer societies care about the environment?

Obviously they are concerned but not all people, maybe not the vast majority,
but they should be, since in products and everything that goes into making a
product such as agricultural fields, which in turn entails the care of the same do
much damage to the flora and fauna, but if they should take more care of
everything that goes into it.