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Hello everyone. Welcome to our English lesson. Let's learn, let's practice, and let's have fun.
English lesson on teen shopping habits from Forget-Me-Not! focusing on reading and vocabulary from Unit 1, page 11.
Key Takeaways
- Teenagers shop both in town and online, often looking for good deals and discounts.
- Social media platforms like Pinterest and Instagram influence teen fashion choices.
- Both boys and girls spend on quality personal care products, with girls more inclined towards jewelry and makeup.
- Waiting for sales or discounts is a common strategy to afford desired items.
- Interactive reading and gap-fill exercises help improve English comprehension and vocabulary.
What the video covers
- The video is an English lesson focusing on reading practice from Unit 1, Going Shopping, page 11 of the Student's Book.
- It features a reading passage about Olivia, a 16-year-old teen, and her shopping habits with friends in town.
- The lesson guides students through reading the article, understanding teen shopping trends, and vocabulary related to shopping and spending.
- Olivia and friends start their day in a coffee shop, discuss finding fashion trends on social media, and look for good deals.
- The video explains teens’ preference for buying quality hair and body products and their interest in jewelry and makeup.
- It highlights online shopping benefits, such as discounts and convenience, and the practice of waiting for sales.
- The lesson includes interactive tasks like filling in missing sentences from the article to improve comprehension.
- The transcript emphasizes healthy eating habits and budget management during shopping trips.
- The teacher encourages students to think about the content and practice reading without translation.
- Additional sentences are provided for gap-filling exercises to reinforce understanding of the text.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and lesson overview
- 00:44Reading the article title and first line
- 01:24Discussion: What do Olivia and friends do in town?
- 02:08Reading about Olivia's shopping day
- 02:51Teen shopping habits and social media influence
- 04:04Looking for good deals and discounts
- 05:09Spending preferences: jewelry, makeup, and body products
- 05:40Online shopping and app usage
- 06:46Gaming and waiting for special offers
- 07:56Lunch and healthy eating
Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown
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Reading. Lesson two, unit one. Going shopping. Shopping teen trends, page 11. Let's continue working with our textbook today.
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Task one: read the article and first line of the article. Let's read the title and the first line of the article.
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What do you think Olivia and her friends do in town?
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What do you think Olivia and her friends do in town? Let's read the article now to check.
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So, shopping teen trends. Well done. It's Saturday morning and Olivia, 16, is going into town with some friends like they usually do.
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So, it's Saturday morning and 16-year-old Olivia is going to town with her friends, just like they usually do.
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The day begins in a coffee shop. We have Frappuccino coffees and chat, Olivia says.
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So, their day begins with frappuccinos and chatting. We like finding the latest fashions on Pinterest or Instagram.
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We love finding the latest trends on Pinterest or Instagram. Like adults, many teens want good value for money.
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Just like adults, many teenagers are also looking for good deals. Yes, something worthwhile.
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If there is something new I want but it's too expensive, like school trainers I saw the other day, I won't get them till a few weeks later.
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If there's something new I want that's too expensive, like these cool trainers I saw the other day, I won't buy them until a few weeks later when they're on sale.
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And you can sometimes get discounts at the checkout when paying, says Olivia.
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And you can sometimes get discounts when you're paying at the checkout, so to speak.
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All the girls are more likely to spend money on jewelry or makeup. Both sexes are into goods and buy high quality hair and body products.
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Although girls are, of course, more inclined to spend money on jewelry and makeup. Both genders enjoy looking for and buying high-quality hair and body products.
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This means downloading apps is a favorite activity.
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This means that downloading apps is a favorite activity. Teens shop on the internet because online companies don't always charge you as much money and it's easy. Olivia.
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Shops for teenagers on the internet.
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Yes, that's right. And "teens shop," excuse me, not shops. It turns out that teenagers buy things online because online companies don't always, uh, so to speak, charge a lot of money, and it's easy, says Olivia.
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For example, sometimes we go to a gaming store and try out several new games.
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For example, sometimes we go to a gaming shop and try out a few new games.
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A lot of games cost more than we can afford. So, we wait until there is a special offer.
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When you can get two games for the price of one and that kind of thing.
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A lot of games cost more than we can afford financially. So we wait for a special offer, when you can get two games for the price of one and, well, other things like that.
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There is no brand new stuff on them, but you can save a lot of money.
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There isn't anything brand new on them, like, uh, new stuff. And you can, in principle, save a lot of money. After that, Olivia
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and her friends go for lunch.
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After that, they go for lunch. I love any healthy food, especially organic stuff.
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That's Olivia. I love any healthy food, especially organic, says Olivia.
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We go anywhere that serves it. Plenty of places do, but it can be expensive.
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We go anywhere that serves it. Many places do, but it can be expensive. After that
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, I don't usually have any money left. Olivia.
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After that, I usually don't have much money left. Yes. What do you think Olivia and friends do in town?
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What do you think Olivia and her friends do in town? Okay. So, I think they buy some things.
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Yes. And they buy some things for reasonable prices.
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Yeah. So, now let's read the article again.
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We won't be translating it anymore, right? We will just reread it in English and insert the missing sentences.
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So, five sentences have been removed from the text. So, for each space, choose the correct sentence.
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For each gap, we choose the correct sentence. There are three extra sentences which you do not need to use.
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So, there are three extra sentences that we do not need to use. Let's get acquainted with them. Yes.
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A some people I know send everything back.
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Some people, some people I know, send everything back.
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B. While they are there, they also do some online shopping.
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While they are there, they also do some online shopping.
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C. They are also keen on keeping their mobile technology up to date.
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They also love, they really love to keep up, to follow, so to speak, the latest technological innovations, well, mobile, I mean, mobile technologies.
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D. You can usually get anything new that way if you are prepared to wait.
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You can usually find new things that way if you are prepared to wait. If you are prepared to wait.
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