Opinions on consumerism
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Consumerism vocabulary and opinions phrases speaking, including collocations and word formation, especially good for IELTS and social studies.
Lesson Plan Content:
Opinions on consumerism
Take turns giving your opinions on consumerism using the topic words and/ or opinions words in the table on the next page. Your partner will listen and agree or disagree, ask for more details, give their own opinion, etc. Discuss that topic for as long as you like, then take turns doing the same with other topics and/ or opinions language below.
Share one opinion that you agreed on with the class and see if others agree.
Ask about anything on the next page that you don’t understand, are not sure how to pronounce, are not sure that you used correctly, etc, working together as a class to make related opinions on consumerism each time.
Without looking at the table below, join words and parts of words in the same section to make words and phrases related to this topic and opinions. Other matches not in the table may also be possible, but there is probably only one way of matching them all.
Check as a class or with the table. Other matches not in the table may also be possible, but there is probably only one way of matching them all.
Without looking at the table below, brainstorm as many different forms of each word on the last page as you can, e.g. an adverb and an opposite if it is an adjective. You can add prefixes before the word and/ or suffixes after the word, plus any other changes which are necessary. Many words not in the table are also possible.
Check as a class or with the table below. Many other words are possible, so please check if you wrote something different. Then change groups. With your new partner, have a similar discussion, but this time with only the key words on a fresh copy of the last page to help.
Give and discuss similar opinions on other IELTS Speaking Part Three topics:
- business and work (advertising, e-commerce, meetings, work-life balance, etc)
- science and technology (internet, social media, etc)
- education (history, etc)
- society (laws, competition, materialism/ consumerism, etc)
- arts and media (movies, music, reading, theatre/ plays, TV, etc)
- people and relationships (family, friends, children, neighbours, fame, skills, etc)
- architecture, homes, towns, and local areas (housework, interiors, cities, etc)
- free time/ leisure (hobbies, shopping, games, etc)
- travel and tourism (commuting, international travel, the tourist industry, etc)
- psychology (choices, etc)
- festivals and celebrations/ important events (marriage, national celebrations, parties)
- finance (money, etc)
- food and drink (cooking, restaurant, etc)
- nature (weather, etc)
- places
- sports
- health (keep fit, lifestyles, etc)
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(misleading/ online) ads/ marketing bargaining/ haggling (own) brand (goods/ loyalty) living on a budget/ budgeting conspicuous consumption consumer campaigns/ consumer boycotts consumerism/ materialism credit (cards)/ debt demanding customers disposal/ getting rid of (donations, etc) duty-free (shopping) fads/ trends fashion (industry) fixing/ mending/ make do and mend gadgets gift giving greenwashing hand-me-downs heirlooms/ passing things down homemade…/ homegrown… imports/ imported… (online) influencers living standards loyalty cards luxury (open-air/ flea/ antique/ indoor) markets (shopping/ outlet) malls packaging payment methods (cash, card, etc) peer pressure pocket money/ allowance |
possessions poverty premium products price/ affordability (big/ impulse/ bulk) purchases quality (product/ online/ customer) reviews (summer/ January) sales salesmanship/ hard sell saving money/ penny pinching (shop around, bargain hunting, etc) second hand/ vintage (goods/ shops) shopaholic (window/ going/ doing the) shopping shopping channels/ television shopping shopping online/ e-commerce shopping street/ high street/ main street sneakerheads souvenirs (over) spending (habits/ patterns) splashing out/ treating yourself (spending/ shopping) sprees status symbols (local/ chain/ mega/ discount) stores the three Rs (upcycling, etc) the (big/ weekly) shop theft (shoplifting, etc) town centre/ city centre/ downtown unboxing value(able)/ treasured |
absolutely/ extremely (un)acceptable addictive authorities/ government (un)avoidable baby boomers beneficial/ advantageous causes – consequences challenging/ tricky changes/ trends (un)common/ (un)popularity comparison/ contrast control/ restrictions cut/ reduction damaging data/ figures dangerous/ threatening (in) decline – growing encouragement/ promotion environmentally… (un)ethical/ (im)moral(ly) example/ exemplified by (personal) experience experts/ researchers fairly/ somewhat Generation X/ Y/ Z/ Alpha improvement – worsening legislation/ regulation/ rule (un)likely/ (im)probable negative – positive over/ excessive…– under… persuasive possible – impossible praiseworthy (un)predictable/ forecasts priority/ prioritise (un)problematic/ issue regret(table) (more or less) right scandalous solutions/ (un)solvable (un)sustainability (pre-)teens/ teenagers the past (… years)/ … ago traditional(ly) trendy – passé understandable worthwhile – waste of… |
Consumerism vocabulary collocations presentation
- own a budget
- brand brand goods
- living on campaigns/ boycotts
- conspicuous consumption
- consumer customers
- demanding free shopping
- duty- giving
- make do and loyalty
- gift mend
- green -washing
- hand-me cards
- heir -downs
- home- grown/ made
- online influencers
- living -looms
- loyalty mall
- open-air/ flea/ antique/ indoor market
- shopping/ outlet money
- peer pressure
- pocket standards
- premium -aholic
- big/ impulse/ bulk around
- product/ online/ customer hand shop
- summer/ January hunting
- penny pinching
- shopping products
- bargain purchase
- second review
- shop sales
- window/ going/ doing the shopping
- e- commerce
- high/ main/ shopping cycling
- sneaker habits/ patterns
- spending head
- splash lifting
- treating out
- spending/ shopping spree
- status stores
- chain/ discount street
- up- symbol
- shop yourself
Opinions vocabulary collocations and word formation presentation
Without looking above, join the words and parts of words on the left and right of the same section to make words and expressions related to giving opinions. Matches not above may also be possible, but there is probably only one way of matching them all.
- accept/ avoid / predict/sustain/ understand -able/ -ably
- addict -al/ -ally
- govern/ encourage/ improve boomers
- baby -en/ -ening
- advantage/ danger/ scandal -ion
- trick/ trend -ive
- (un)popular -ity
- restrict -ment
- threat -ous
- environment/ tradition -y
- research -ager
- some -atic
- Generation cast
- worse -er
- praise -n/ -ning
- fore- -table
- problem -what
- regret -while
- teen -worthy
- worth X/ Y/ Z/ Alpha
Check as a class or above. Other matches may be possible, but there is probably only one way of matching them all.
Word formation presentation
Write as many different forms as you can of each word on the next page. Many versions not above are also possible.
Compare with above, brainstorm more, then compare your extra ideas as a class.
Consumerism vocabulary word formation
- afford
- allow
- consume
- dispose
- donate
- influence
- loyal
- material
- pay
- possess
- press
- produce
- thief
- value
Opinions vocabulary word formation
- addict
- advantage
- avoid
- benefit
- compare
- encourage
- example
- exceed
- legislate
- moral
- persuade
- popular
- predict
- priority
- probable
- problem
- reduce
- regret
- regulate
- research
- restrict
- scandal
- solve
- sustain
- threat
- tradition
- trend
- understand
- worse
- worth
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