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UNIT 5

Overview

Watch the video podcast. Are your views or opinions similar to any of the speakers?

Read the text below about Val’s shopping habits. Try to ill in the

gaps from memory and then watch the video podcast from 0:11-0:33

to check your answers.

Hi. I enjoy walking around the 1 shops and I buy things 2 ________ books

and make-up 3 ________ but I always do my food shopping 4 ________

– it’s such a fantastic service and you get everything 5 ________ to your door.

Today I’m talking to people about 6 ________ and innovative products. What

7 ________ do you enjoy buying most?

Val

Glossary: on impulse = when you buy on impulse you buy things you had not planned to buy

2 What tems do you enjoy buying most? Read below what these six people say about things they enjoy

buying. Then watch the video podcast from 0:33-1:20 and match the people A-F to the statements 1-6.

Maria

Sue

Liz

Joe

Chris

Emma

1 markets, antique markets and vintage clothes

2 I love to browse around bookshops.

3 I probably enjoy buying books the most and music as well.

4 I love going to food markets, ish markets.

5 I love buying plants for the garden.

6 I should say like shoes, bags I think and make-up.

What sorts of things do you buy on impulse? Look at the items in the box below. Then watch the

video podcast from 1:20-2:04. Circle the FIVE items which the speakers say they buy on impulse.

food books CDs music

jewellery plants clothes shoes

handbags antiques holidays make-up

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What sorts of things do you plan to buy? Watch the video podcast from 2:07-2:26 and write true (T)

or false (F) next to each statement.

Emma

Damian

Paul

1 He travels a lot for his

work. T

2 The price of train and plane

tickets are important to

him.

3 She doesn’t need to plan what

she buys because she has plenty

of money.

4 He plans before he buys a

holiday.

5 He plans before he buys

anything costing more than

£50.

Glossary: good value for money = something is worth what you paid for it - the price is not too high; a

purchase = something you buy

What recent product or service do you think is impressive? Read the responses below. Watch the

video podcast from 2:32-2:52 and ill in the gaps using the words and phrases from the box, then match

the statements 1-3 with the people A-C.

taking a picture iPhone mobile phone amazing

camera changed my life emails

Sue

Paul

Maria

1 _______________. Absolutely _______________! I mean I bought one and it’s just,

it’s really _______________.

2 Probably my _______________. I’ve just changed it to a Blackberry Storm ® where I can get

all my _______________.

3 The new _______________ that I saw on television, on the commercial. So you’re

_______________ and you’re seeing yourself on the other side.

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f you could start a business or invent a product or service what would t be? Read the responses

to the question below, then watch the video podcast from 3:00-3:21 and ill in the missing words and

phrases.

1 I don’t know. I’d like to sell ___________ if you could sell ___________ that

would be good. I don’t know how ___________ .

Paul

2 My ___________ business is to have a thing called Sophia’s ___________ and

to make really fantastic ___________ that you can’t buy in this country.

Liz

3 I love the ___________ so anything that would, kind of, bring more

___________ to people’s lives and expression – I think that would be great.

Emma

The people in the video podcast talk about buying things on impulse. Look at the statements below

and then watch the video podcast from 1:20-2:04 and tick (

✓

) what the people say, a or b.

1 a) Music, I suppose I buy that on impulse.

b) Music, I always buy that on impulse.

Paul

2 a) Clothes, but not as much as I used to.

b) Clothes, but not as many as I used to.

Liz

3 a) Well, I’m not that kind of person that buys things on impulse.

b) Well, I’m not that type of person that buys things on impulse.

Maria

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4 a) ... I saw a pair of silver tongs that looked like a great bargain.

b) ... I saw a pair of silver tongs that looked like a great buy.

Damian

5 a) On impulse? Oh, dreadful! Handbags, that’s probably my big impulse buy.

b) On impulse? Oh, dreadful! Handbags, that’s probably my biggest impulse buy.

Sue

Write your answers to the questions.

1 What sorts of things do you buy on impulse?

______________________________________________________________________

2 What recent product or service that you’ve seen do you think is impressive?

______________________________________________________________________

3 If you could start a business or invent a product or service what would it be?

______________________________________________________________________

BBC LINK

BBC reporter Stephen Sackur investigates the qualities that make some people

innovators.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10653786

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