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This three sentence summary provides the key points about consumer societies from the given document: A consumer society is one that encourages people to buy and use goods, providing them with more comfortable lives as they can purchase a wider variety of foods and products. However, consumer societies also promote excessive buying and waste as new, advanced products are constantly being released. Now many people are more aware of the environmental impacts of consumerism and aiming to be more responsible with their purchasing.

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What Is A Consumer Society?: Explore

This three sentence summary provides the key points about consumer societies from the given document: A consumer society is one that encourages people to buy and use goods, providing them with more comfortable lives as they can purchase a wider variety of foods and products. However, consumer societies also promote excessive buying and waste as new, advanced products are constantly being released. Now many people are more aware of the environmental impacts of consumerism and aiming to be more responsible with their purchasing.

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EXPLORE

UNIT
1 READ the article about consumer societies. Notice the words in bold.

What is a Consumer Society?


A consumer is a person who buys things, and a consumer society is a society that encourages
people to buy and use goods.1 Some people think that a consumer societyprovides people with
better lives. People in consumer societies tend to live more comfortably. They eat a wider
variety of food. They go to restaurants more often.
They also buy a lot of products, maybe more than they need.

Products such as TVs, cell phones, and computers used to be luxuries.2 Today people can buy
these things more easily than ever before. The market for these goodsis growing faster all the
time. Consumer societies encourage people to buy bigger andbetter products. For example,
“smarter” phones come out every year. In a consumer society, people are often buying newer
and more advanced products. This creates a lot of waste. Nowadays, many people are thinking
more seriously about the effects
of consumer societies on the environment, and they are trying to become moreresponsible
consumers.

1
goods: items that can be bought or sold
ry: something that is expensive but not necessar

2 CHECK. Read each statement. Circle T for true and F for false.

1. Everyone agrees that consumer products improve their lives. T F

2. These days, consumer goods are hard to find. T F

3. Many people want luxury products these days. T F

4. Consumer societies help the environment. T F

3 DISCOVER. Complete the exercises to learn about the grammar in this lesson.

A Find these sentences in the article from exercise 1. Write the missing words.

1. They eat a variety of food.

2., and they are trying to become consumers.

B Look at the words you wrote in exercise A. Then circle the correct word to complete each rule.

1. For long / short adjectives, put more before the adjective to form the comparative.

2. For long / short adjectives, add -er to the end of the adjective to form the comparative.
4 Complete each sentence with the correct comparative form of the adjective in parentheses. Add than
when necessary.

AL NGLISH

1. New cars are much more quiet than / quieter than (quiet) old cars.

2. Do you think money is (important) good health?

3. This coat is (nice) that one.

4. My old laptop was a lot (big) my new one.

5. Gas is so expensive! I want a (efficient) car.

6. Many people think modern life is (good) life in the past.

7. Communication is a lot (easy) it was 50 years ago.

8. The pollution in my city is much (bad) it used to be.

9. I prefer (hot) temperatures. That’s why I love summer.

10. My new school is a little (far) my old one.

220 COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

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