Speaking. U2. Q1-3. Consumerism

Дата публикации: Apr 03, 2014 12:7:59 PM

To this Listening task https://sites.google.com/site/myenglishness/home/listening/unit2listening2multiplechoicepart3exercise2

1. To what extent do you desire luxury goods?

As for me, I do not desire luxury goods at all but I like handy, comfortable for use and useful items.

It doesn’t matter where an item was produced, how much it costs and how many people use it.

If clothes are comfortable and good-looking I will choose it.

If a gadget is handy, reliable and comfortable for use it will be my choice.

That’s my opinion.

2. When you buy consumer goods, are you influenced by the media or celebrities?

I believe that in the modern world no one can be absolutely independent in decisions.

The media, celebrities, other people of the same social level influence to everyone.

The advertisement uses powerful methods to achieve its purposes.

Therefore, I think that I’m influenced quite a lot but I try to enhance my critical reasoning to attain self-sufficiency and independence in my decisions.

3. Who do you think is right, Graham or Sally?

I rather prefer Sally’s point of view because I believe that people should be free in choosing.

Firstly, I agree with Sally that people should have a possibility to buy a luxury item if they can afford it.

People want to be individuals and I think that it is excellent.

Secondly, I find Sally’s arguments about a luxury goods production sound and correct because the brand firms create employment and so also creates wealth.

Finally, I agree with Sally about affects of advertisements and celebrity to the quality of family life.

I think Graham has a very simplistic approach to the problem.

Graham blames the media and the advertisement for enormous influention to people while I think that rampart consumerism is only a visual part of the phychological phenomenon.

He thinks that if we take away the ads, people would have the critical reasoning automaticly without any efforts while I think that it is an utopia.

I believe that people do a mental imitative transfer to a celebrity or a happy person in an ad.

They plainly think that if they have an item or a piece of clothes that they saw in the ad they would be happy like an ad person. In this case if we take away ads, people would only find another object to the transfer. That’s all.

Update 1

1. To what extent do you desire luxury goods?

As for me, I do not desire luxury goods at all but I like handy and useful items.

It doesn’t matter where an item has been produced, how much it costs and how many people use it.

If clothes are comfortable and good to look at I choose them.

If a gadget is handy and reliable it is my choice.

That’s my opinion of luxury goods.

2. When you buy consumer goods, are you influenced by the media or celebrities?

I believe that in the world today no one can be absolutely independent in making their decisions.

Any person is influenced by celebrities, the media and other people of the same social level.

An advertisement uses powerful methods to achieve its purposes.

Therefore, I’m influenced by celebrities and the media quite a lot but I try to enhance my critical reasoning to attain self-sufficiency and independence in making my decisions.

3. Who do you think is right, Graham or Sally?

I rather prefer Sally’s point of view because I believe that people should be free in choosing.

Firstly, I agree with Sally that people should have a possibility to buy a luxury item if they can afford it.

People want to be individuals and I think that it is excellent.

Secondly, I find Sally’s arguments about a luxury goods production sound and correct because the brand firms create employment and so creates wealth.

Finally, I agree with Sally about effects of advertisements and celebrity on the quality of family life.

I think Graham develops a very simplistic approach to the problem.

Graham blames the media and the advertisement for enormous influention on people while I think that rampart consumerism is only a visual part of the phychological phenomenon.

Graham thinks that if the ads are taken away, people would automaticly and effortlessly develop critical reasoning while I think that it is utopia.

I believe that people do an imitative transference to a celebrity or a happy person in an ad.

They plainly think that if they have an item or a piece of clothes that they have seen in the ad they would be happy like in the same way as the person in the ad is. In this case if ads were taken away, people would only find other objects for their imitative transfer, that’s all.