Welcome to your last week! I figure you must feel tired and excited at the same time. You are already there! Today I am offering some practice of your reading skills, a must for the PEvAU test and an important skill for your future higher studies , whatever they might be.
TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT.
- Read the following text called👉"THE BUY NOTHING MOVEMENT"👈 , do not use a dictionary for the comprehension part.
- Do the pre-task vocabulary exercise ( Use a dictionary if you need to).
- Read and answer exercises TASK 1 AND TASK 2. ( Do not use a translator or dictionary of any kind).
- Correct your exercises ( Scroll down the document to see the ANSWER KEY)
- Answer the question What do you think about the buy nothing trend? on the blog. (Use a short paragraph ca. 80 words and try to include topic-related vocabulary, new words you learned from the text , etc..)
- You have all day long to do this task. I'll check your answers at the end of the day.
This trend as has been proven is a good way to improve many parts of our society and environmental. I think we could take this measure many more people and make this even better, or make more aware of this. It's a good way and you could also take example Spain, it would be a great saving for many families and a pretty big help in their lives but we are not aware that measures we can use in this life as is the case of not buying anything.
ReplyDeleteWHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE TREND TO BUY ANYTHING?
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the trend to buy anything is quite good since this is a way to save, in all areas. But think that for most people it would be very difficult, since people buy whenever we can, we cannot go without buying because we are used to buying unnecessary things, even though we don't need anything. But without a doubt it is a trend that we could apply to all people, since we would save a lot of money that we could invest in necessary and important things.
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ReplyDeleteIn my opinion the "buy nothing" trend is something useful and positive for people because, sometimes, we are not even aware of the compulsive shopping issues. Sometimes we just think we are not overshopping, that we are buying just what we need but indeed we are not. This kind of movements are a
ReplyDeletegood tool for people to understand how much they waste without sense and how they can live with much less and better, without the need of buying stuff they don't really need and how to spend their money in things that they really need.
Jose Riego 2ºA
ReplyDeleteI think that this text is really important to our planet because if we buy so much we will have a problem with our enviroment. Nowadays the structure of the society consist on buy to be better but I believe that simples things that we don´t buy are more important and If we have this we will change the rest, like the necessity of spend money to have things that says that you are better when in fact it doesn´t matter.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, this trend could have quite good consequences for our society, as is well mentioned in the text. But not everyone can afford not to buy anything, as they earn so little that they have the money they need to buy every day what they need, whether it's clothes or food. It’s true that most people buy what they do not need, that is why this trend would save them a lot of money, since these types of people are not aware of it.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think about the buy nothing trend?
ReplyDeleteI think that is a good idea for save the environment and save money too. But I think that teh begining, maybe is so hard, people are so used to spend money that everyone can not do it and someone will may be in rejection. If many people take the dedication to carry out this project, they would really benefit. But for other way, we are killing the environment with spend money in things that we don´t need, we need stop and this is us oportunity.
I think that overconsumption it’s something to need avoid. For example, we don’t really need to buy clothes or other things all time (except food). A clothes can be used very times and it’s not a necessity if you have clothes in the closet from other years. Quarantine has helped us for times of crisis that are coming. We should save money, our “future me” would be grateful.
ReplyDeleteI hope this help people to see what we really need and learn to value.
Paula López Aquino 2ºA
Óscar Torres Suárez
ReplyDeleteI think this is a very important movement. The message it brings have an eye on the future an that, nowadays, it's very important. The exaggerated consumerism that we have in our society not only is bad for our wallets, but also is a problem that we need to solve in order to save our planet from a terrible ending. The consumerism is followed by trash accumulation and a higher need of factories, things that just contamination to our environment.
Joaquín Gutiérrez Montaño
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion this canadian trend is a very useful way to kind of organise your life ir order to save money. It does not only help with saving money, but with letting everyone notice what their needs are and how they really are, idea that the consumerism has been taking away from our minds. If this goes on it'll be a huge success I think, but of course there will always be some people that, for some reason or other and that no matter what, will choose spending over saving.