V. Listening and watching: Changing trends on consumer markets.

A. Visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl7ZXAveNa4 , find a special video report “Personal technology”. Watch the video and complete the statements below:

1. Shipments of PCs will keep growing in _______________ markets.

2. Tablets and smartphones and other mobile gadgets are becoming more popular in ___________ countries.

3. China and India are expected to ___________ ___ with feature phones too.

4. Some ___________ of mobile web-connected gadgets will be in circulation by the end of the decade.

5. Ten top Android aps account for __________ % of all usage.

6. The majority of mobile data will be delivered in the form of ___________.

7. Downloadable software makes smartphones ___________.

8. Almost _______ aps will be downloaded this year.

9. As mobile gadgets have become more powerful they will be more used_______.

10. Mobile devices will be widely used by Information workers as to access things such as ________ and ___________.

11. Availability of information for personal usage is regarded as ____________ of IT.

12. A new era in the personal technology is called a _________ PC era.

B. Comment on the following:

Mobile digital gadgets are overshadowing the PC. Do you agree or disagree with the statement? Give your reasons.

What does it mean “a post PC era”? Does it imply the disappearance of PCs?

VI. Speaking: In pairs interview each other with the questionnaire.

Ask for more information. Report your findings to the group.

Handling Money

Have you ever…?

(spend) money on something you’ve never used?

(buy) anything on the Internet

(lose) a credit card or your wallet

(save) for something for a long time

(win) any money (e.g. in a lottery)

(be) pickpocketed

(borrow) money from someone

Have you … recently?

(buy) anything in the e-shop

(be) to a hypermarket or a shopping centre

(buy) anyone a gift

(use) a check

(take) money out of an ATM

(lend) money to someone in your family

VII. Writing: Write the following composition “I’ve just got a bargain” describing your own unforgettable shopping experience of buying a smartphone or laptop. To organize your work properly, use the ideas below:

· Say whether you are careful/wasteful with money to be spent;

· How often do you go shopping?

· Where do you do shopping?

· How do you pay? (in cash, by credit card)

· Do you enjoy buying gifts?

· What was the last present you bought? On what occasion?

· Is it a hard deal to choose an appropriate gift?

· How do you usually feel afterwards?

· Give an advice on how one can be successful in giving presents. What one should / must / have to be careful about.

Lesson 2. Patterns of Economic Change

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