Britain’s young consumers

Britain’s young consumers

Understanding new words

consumer

продавец

retailer

потребитель

catch up

сводить концы с концами

overtake

устоять

dig deeper into their pockets

выживать

hand out

make ends meet

догонять

поход по магазинам

resist

student loan

перегнать

survive

разбрасывать

afford

тратить больше

to splash out

позволять

shopping spree

выдавать

студенческий кредит

Verbs related to money

to pay (for something) - платить

- in cash

- by check

- by credit card

to lend – давать взаймы

to save up - копить

to waste – тратить в пустую

to cost - стоить

to earn - зарабатывать

to borrow - занимать

Working with text

• 1. Who is the retailer’s dream?
• 2.What kind of things is the best seller now?
• 3. What kind of things is on the second place?
• 4.What modern technology is rapidly replacing traditional pastimes?
• 5.Where do modern teenagers go to nowadays?
• 6.What do their parents do for it?
• 7.How do teenagers making ends meat?

What do you spend money on?

I spend money on ……

Who are you?

Match

pocket

loan

credit

in cash

part-time

spree

student

games

household

sports

pay

job

board

money

extreme

newspapers

shopping

card

deliver

chores

Words of wisdom

• The art is not in making money, but in keeping it

FREE-TIME ACTIVITIES

FREE-TIME ACTIVITIES

Play

board games

fishing

archery

snowboarding

tennis/football

martial arts

white–water rafting

aerobics

skydiving

gardening

Go

Do

Go

Play

Do

Go

Do

Go

Do

adventurous

cautious

сильный

creative

осторожный

fit

в хорошей форме

амбициозный

brave

relaxed

сдержанный

любящий путешествия

quiet

outgoing

общительный

shy

решительный

творческий

sociable

boring

робкий

тихий

ambitious

adventurous

отзывчивый

reserved

скучный

храбрый

determined

strong

сильный

imaginative

чувствительный

расслабленный

sensitive

с богатым воображением

Brave people enjoy skydiving or white-water rafting.

• Would you rather go fishing or play football?
• I prefer to play football .

- Do you prefer playing tennis or playing board games?  - I'm not keen on playing tennis. I prefer board games.

Ordinary, suburban. tiled, bells, bang, intentions, inexperience, lasted, French windows, charm, model, estate agents, dull, dreadful, over and done with, unjust, refurnishing, mumps, nursery, cross, merry, heaps

- plain; usual

- from an area outside the city centre where people live and do not usually work

- covered with tiles

- devices that make a ringing sound used to get attention or give a signal

- pair of glass doors usually leading to a garden

- people whose job it is to sell houses and land

- boring

- putting of new furniture into a house

- a childhood illness where your face and neck swell up

- a room in a house where children play and/or sleep

- a lot, many

- very happy

- a little angry

- unfair

- finished; ended; no more

- awful

- a smaller but exact copy of something, e.g. plane, train

- to be pleasant/attractive/likeable

- existed for a period of time

- lack of skills or knowledge of something

- an idea or a plan of what you want to do in the future

- a loud noise