Lesson 2_Unit 1_ L&S_Academic English B2

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What do you remember in the last listening practice?

Please summarize it within 2 minutes!

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Audio Response

Describe a time when you got a good bargain. You should say:

What you bought

Where you bought it

Why it was a good deal

How you felt about the purchase

(record yourself speaking within 2 minutes)

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If I buy something on sale, I feel happy.​ ​

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If I had money, I could buy a new laptop. ​

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When it's sunny, my mood improves. ​

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If the price were lower, I would buy a new laptop.​

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If the price drops before class starts, I will buy that new computer. ​

Select answer

Audio Response

Record in under 1 minute:

1. Liu Yang received some presents when she graduated from college.

2. How did Jose react to the good news? What did he decide to do?

3. Look at these photos! I took them for my photography course.

4. Everyone loves a bargain, even if they don’t need the item.

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Audio Response

Record in under 1 minute:

5. The most expensive purchase I’ve ever made was my car.

6. Psychologists study the ways in which humans think and act.

7. Jin won the competition for best fashion design.

8. Sofia needs to declare her major soon but she's still undecided. 

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Audio Response

Record speaking within 2 minutes

Think about a large purchase that you have made/are going to make.

Discuss about the positive and negative consequences of that purchase.

Then conclude whether that purchase was/will be worth making.

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Match

Match the following

• to persuade or convince

• something used to attract people’s attention so they will not notice something else

• a somewhat dishonest way of getting a result

• a business that sells goods to consumers

tempt (v)

decoy (n)

trick (n)

retailer (n)

• tempt (v)

• decoy (n)

• trick (n)

• retailer (n)

Drag and Drop

The ​

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sold fresh vegetables to customers in the neighborhood.

The hunter placed a wooden ​

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duck on the lake to attract real ducks.

The smell of freshly baked cookies will ​

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anyone walking by the bakery.

The magician used a clever ​

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to make the rabbit disappear from the hat.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

trick

tempt

decoy

retailer

Describe one trick you know that retailers use to attract customers

The secrets of shopping

Audio Response

Describe one trick you know that retailers use to attract customers

(record under 1 minute)

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Your worksheet

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​Now watch the video and complete the exercise

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What grammar point have we learned?

Audio Response

Try to pronounce the primary stress in these words correctly

present (n) vs present (v)

competition (n) vs compete (v)

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What main points from the video do you remember?

(try to answer within 5 sentences)

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What are the consequences of the tricks?

( Use the conditional to answer in 1 -2 sentences)