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    The document provides listening exercises related to consumerism and financial awareness. It includes an interview on ethical consumerism and a song from the short film "Consumerism: The Musical" that discusses overconsumption. Participants must listen and answer questions about key terms and concepts mentioned, including completing sentences about misleading labels, consumption rates, and questioning purchases and needs. They also reorder lines from the song about being the "sultan of sales" and "king of excess" who overspends without paying rent.

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    The document provides listening exercises related to consumerism and financial awareness. It includes an interview on ethical consumerism and a song from the short film "Consumerism: The Musical" that discusses overconsumption. Participants must listen and answer questions about key terms and concepts mentioned, including completing sentences about misleading labels, consumption rates, and questioning purchases and needs. They also reorder lines from the song about being the "sultan of sales" and "king of excess" who overspends without paying rent.

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    The document provides listening exercises related to consumerism and financial awareness. It includes an interview on ethical consumerism and a song from the short film "Consumerism: The Musical" that discusses overconsumption. Participants must listen and answer questions about key terms and concepts mentioned, including completing sentences about misleading labels, consumption rates, and questioning purchases and needs. They also reorder lines from the song about being the "sultan of sales" and "king of excess" who overspends without paying rent.

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    CONSUMERISM AND FINANCIAL AWARENESS

    LISTENING SKILLS
    EXERCISE

    Nowadays, social values are changed. People value more what you buy and what you have
    more than whom you are and all this is a consequence of consumerism.

    In the first part, you are going to listen an interview on Ethical Consumerism
    (http://tinyurl.com/a7hxr8m) and you are going to do some listening exercises about them

    In the second part of the test, you are going to listen to a song about consumerism, entitled It’s a
    wonderful life (http://tinyurl.com/2z2r5r), which is the sound track of the short film Consumerism:
    the Musical.
    PART I

    Listen to an interview about ethics in consumerism and complete the sentences according to what
    you listen :

    a. In Australia, it’s not easy to protect the environment because of the _________ ______
    __________________, misleading labels and a downright judging problem.

    b. People are consuming________________________ and rapidly.

    c. Julian Lee’s book leads people to question about what they ___________________________.

    d. People shouldn’t buy things __________________.

    e. His book also makes people question whether they need the _________________they buy or not.

    f. What began as an assignment for his newspaper became an emotional journey on


    _______________ ___________________.

    g. Because they want people to buy their products, manufactures create successful
    ___________________.

    h. When people buy things, they should read the ________________ on the product.

    i. About one in four Australian want to help save the environment, but only __________________
    do it.

    j. Palm oil is used in _______________________, _______________________ and


    ________________.
    PART II

    Listen to parts of the song It’s a wonderful life taken form the film Consumerism: the musical
    and reorder the sentences:

    Right…

    ( ___ ) I’m the sultan of sales


    ( ___ ) My credit cards they never fail
    ( ___ ) I’m the boss of bargain
    ( ___ ) I’m the king of excess

    ( ___ ) I’ve got seven hundred something


    ( ___ ) I can buy even more
    ( ___ ) In my bike and store
    ( ___ ) Which means I don’t a thing and

    ( ___ ) And my money can buy


    ( ___ ) I’m the best of the best
    ( ___ ) I’m a buffing eating tablet reading
    lovable guy

    It’s a wonderful life…


    It’s a wonderful life…
    (…)

    ( ___ ) I’m better than Juliet


    ( ___ ) Oh…I’m the chief of searching
    ( ___ ) I’m the prince of depress
    ( ___ ) I get more than a few of my favourite
    things

    ( ___ ) That I saw but I forgot to pay the rent


    ( ___ ) But I saved 10% on the sale
    ( ___ ) I spent seven hundred dollars,

    (…)

    Do you need more money?


    Do you need more cash?
    Do you need a big house and a big old car?
    (…)

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