Hi there, lads!
First of all, sorry for the delay. I have been quite busy going here and there to meet some people I can only see these days and I could not find the time to do it.
However, here you are the post so now you can start uploading your compositions about shopping, advertising and everything related to CONSUMERISM.
As I told you in class, you can approach the topic from many different points of view, as long as you write about the way products go from the companies which manufacture them to your houses.
Remember there are some expressions that must be part of your writing and which are used to STATE OPINIONS.
Furthermore, it would be great if you could include some sentences in the Passive Voice to make clear that you know how to use it.
I look forward to reading them and I wish you a very good Easter time!
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ReplyDeleteONLINE SHOP
The online shop is a type of bussiness that used as a means to make purchases to anywhere in the world whithout leaving your home. Whith the online shop you can also find a lot of products not need to have cash and many others things... but also has its disadvantages for example you can not try the product before buying,and also that there is additional costs for example shipping costs and the delay in obtaining the product. you have to be very careful with shopping online because somentimes you can be fooled.
The main stores that offer online store are supermarkets and clothing stores.
In my opinion online shops are very good because you can buy any product to all parts of the world but i do not think it is very safe and that is why you have to look very well at the shop you buy.
LAURA MELENDEZ FDEZ 4B
TOO MUCH ADVERTISING.
ReplyDeleteWe are surrounded by adverts. As I see it, adverts are visual supports that drive people to purchase unnecesary items. Advertising is used to increase the benefits of the companies of the country.
Every day, on TV, even in the social media like Instagram, Twitter... , more and more ads are shown. Companies use advertising so that people buy their goods although they don't need them.
I think that adverts are made to compete between companies, so, if the advert is more flashy, it will attract more buyers. In my view, the people that design adverts make them flashy and beautiful to attract people.
In my opinion, adverts should be less flashy and make their purpose in a better way. People should be more intelligent not to be convinced by adverts, and buy only when they really need it.
Marta Álvarez Vidal 4ºA
Many times the adverts are seen on internet. We are sold products that aren't the same as the adverts and we are sent products that we don't buy.
ReplyDeleteIf people didn't buy things on the internet there would be a benefit for everyone. People would stop being deceived and the shops would go to ruin. But there are also good stores online that don't send products that don't promise. These stores could installed in physical locations and, therefore, see what we buy without needing to be tricked by ads. Companies with deceptive advertising are the wost!
In my opinion, if we stop buying online and the stores of confidence were located in physical stores, it would be bitter for all.
Astrid Álvarez 4°A
The ads are important for the purchase of products.
ReplyDeleteThe ads are for you to see the product before buying it in the physical or online store.
The ads have many disadvantages such as not knowing if it will be the same, if it will have the same quality.
This usually happens with clothes, there are stores like Primark that their sales are based on physical stores without the need of online sales.
The benefits are that you can see the product and look at its quality, the disadvantage is that not all cities are.
They also do not need ads basically because it is a large company and does not need it.
But for example in other stores ads are important, such as food to represent your product.
I think the ads are important to present the product but sometimes they can fool us.
Mireya Ferraz 4°A
The adverts are normal in our lives. They are very common in our society. Nobody is surprised to see huge posters annoucing new products and everday we see many adverts at all times.
ReplyDeleteWe were attracted by advertising agencies for buy something that we really don´t need. This agencies use certain strategies to attract people who want to buy their product. Some of that strategies are the distribution of flyers, the huge posters in public places, the attractives shop displays…Everithing for sell a poduct that they say it is necessary for our live and that it we don´t live. We buy it, sometimes exceending our budget, and we realice that we don´t need it and we fell bad for having bought it.
We shouldn´t be tempt by advetesing agencies for buy their goods and if we do it, we never should exceed our budget.
Alexnadre Selas Álvarez,4ºD
If we see so much advertising everywhere it is impossible don´t see the new products that go on sale.Also ads are showy and show the product as necessary for our life.For example a apple cutter. I think that this added to the human thought that must have the best is what produces the consumerism.
ReplyDeleteThere is now a fashion called "hypebeast". It is the fashion for buy very expensive clothes regardless of make it beautiful or easy to combine. Companies wich do work children in poor countries get many earnings. The cost for making a garment is 20 dollars and someone buy it for 400 dollars.
In my opinion we are being deceived by companies making us pay a heavy price for a product and making us feel bad if we don't have it.
Alan Murias Azevedo 4ºB
PROGRAMMED OBSOLESCENCE
ReplyDeleteToday many companies use the programmed obsolescence to reduce the quality oficina life at the products. On day, many people has lived this, and i don't think this is fair.
Every year, thousands of broken products end in third world countries. In Ghana are millions of broken products, but, the companies claim that they are second hand, and It is a lie, they put this products here and the people of Ghana, burn the products looking for something valuable.
In my opinion, we are spending more than we should, and we throw them where nobody sees them. We need to create less things, because we use resources that we can not create, are limited.
Jade Alonso 4° A
PROGRAMMED OBSOLESCENCE
ReplyDeleteToday many companies use the programmed obsolescence to reduce the quality of life at the products. Every day, many people live this, and i don't think this is fair.
Every year, thousands of broken products end in third world countries. In Ghana are millions of broken products, but, the companies claim that they are second hand, and It is a lie, they put this products here and the people of Ghana, burn the products looking for something valuable.
In my opinion, we are spending more than we should, and we throw them where nobody sees them. We need to create less things, because we use resources that we can not create, are limited.
Jade Alonso 4°A
I did again, because i got confused in one thing and i didn't let me delete it
ADVERTISING
ReplyDeleteAt present, I think that there are too adverts, they are used to convince people to purchase unnecessary products. However, advertising is necessary to increase the incomes of the companies.
Today, different goods are often advertised by social medias, TV... Everyday we see many adverts that cause that people are convinced to buy products that they don't need. Many teenagers are attracted by expensive brand and on sale goods. This cause that they want to purchase them even when they don't have enough money.
One strategy to attract customers is to use shop displays with flashy colours and large posters that are put in strategic places.
In my opinion, advertising was made to tent purchasers. This causes that they buy more than they need.
Uxía Caamaño Carcacía 4ºA
As we see every day, the ads are everywhere, in social media, posters, among others ...
ReplyDeleteBut I think there are too many cheating ads, in which many of us pick.
The creators of ads try to put everything precious and tempting so that people are attracted by the products and end up buying them, besides making them look very good and durable.
These products seem so tempting and so usable because of their appearance in the images, that although people already have something similar, they make people buy it. And that is their tactic.
The ads end up being a "machine" of money for the companies, but harmful for us, since we are manipulated by the creators of ads.
I believe that if they did not only think about them, but also about other people, everything would be much better.
VALERIA PRADA DÍEZ 4ºB
First of all I want to say that advertising are very important in our life because of we can see many products that are very interesting and we may need for example new shoes or something else.
ReplyDeleteAdvertising agencys know very well how we think and they make the ad as pleasant as possible,we should not be guided by that because we can buy things that we may not use and many people are tempted to do this
For summing up I want to say that ads are very useful,and we see them all time in social media, in tv, etc... but we may not be tempted by them
Iván 4B
The big food companies, like Mc Donalds, Burger King, or in my country, Telepizza, present their foods on TV adverts, but, in TV, the food looks very well and very appetizing, but in the restaurant, the food looks very bad and isn't appetizing.
ReplyDeleteWe think that there are real products, but, really, aren't food or the food represented isn't that food and is another. These cases may be reportable and end the great fortunes of those companies. They can also use products that have nothing to do with food products, for example, car oil for the car engine.
In sumary, TV ads are manipulated for the big companoes to catch our attention and earn millions of dolars of profit at the expense os it's deceptive advertising.
Jorge Da Rosa López 4°A
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ReplyDeleteNowadays online shopping is getting more and more common.I think that sometimes it´s practical because if you want to buy something and this thing isn´t on the shops where you can go, you can buy it online.
ReplyDeleteIn my view online shopping has advantages and disadvantages like the fact that the product can arrive later than you want. Moreover, it can be dangerous because your information can be used for other purposes. Another thing is that the product may be different or in bad conditions but for this problem there´s a solution, the product can be either given back or changed.
Furthermore, in some villages, a lot of products can´t be bought because there are few shops.
So, in my opinion online shopping has got some disadvantages but sometimes it´s necessary and it can be very useful.
MARÍA SANTOS LÓPEZ 4ºB
I think that half of the population prefers buying online and the other half prefers going to stores.I believe that it is better to go to shops.
ReplyDeleteIf we buy on internet we can’t try the product on before;For example,if I buy a t-shirt I can’t try it before to see what is my size.If you buy online and like going shopping,you can’t do whatever you like.It seems to me that if you buy online and what it arrives isn’t what you want,it’s very difficult to return it.As well,when you go shopping you get more tired when you are looking for what you want and this provoks that you buy less.
To sum up,it’s better to go to the shops than online .As I see it,the possibility of being able to buy the clothes on is the best option to know if they suit you well.
Lucía Fernández Grande 4ºA
The advertisements that appear sometimes on our mobile phones is a way for us to go in and look at things to buy online and so we do not bother having to go to the store to look and buy. For example advertisements for cars, clothes, shoes and other things. But it also has its advantages and disadvantages; disadvantages because you can not try to have it already at home and you do not know if it really is that size or not and its advantages that it is comfort and you can return the product. I think that part is well both online shopping and advertising but in a way, not so often because sometimes they appear all the time and at all hours.
ReplyDeleteAIDA GINGEIRA FERNÁNDEZ 4ºA
As far as I'm concerned, online shopping uses more than going to the clothing store, but I prefer shop in the clothing store.
ReplyDeleteI believe is better to buy in the clothing store, because if you buy shirts, jeans, etc... on the internet you can get a smaller size.
It seems to me that is better to be able to try on your clothes before buying them because that way you can see if it suits you or not.
To sum up in my opinion is better buy in the clothing store than online because is more easy refund the product, you don't have to wait for it to arrive, you don't have to pay shipping costs.
SARAY CALLE RAMIREZ 4°A
Shopping online or going to the shops? That's the big question.In my opinion, it´s better to go to the shops, instead of shopping online. The reasons are very easy to understand. The product can be tasted, tried, and analyzed closely, and after that, you decide if you want to buy it.
ReplyDeleteHowever, as we are surrounded by all the advertising inviting us to shop online, we used to give up and do our shopping online.Besides,this means being able to choose from a bigger variety of things in a very short time. But there is a disadvantage: the risk is bigger because you can´t analyze the product as well as you can do if you go shopping. Also, when the product arrives and, for example, it´s not your size, you have to send it back or get a refund.
To sum up, I prefer going to the shops because I may be advised about a product. And another more important reason is that local businesses must be helped.Like this, they won't disappear.
Esther Ramos 4 ESO B
Nowadays the only thing that we think about is buying, Amazon is all the range. Unless you wear the lastest model of certain brand of trainers you are old-fashioned, if teenagers wore something different they are considered weird. It seems to me that all of these things are influenced by the advertisings that we see every day. This is quite wrong.
ReplyDeleteWhen a new pair of trainers comes out, all people run to the shops to buy them. Most people have many pairs and once the item is out of fashion they leave it in their wardrobe. Clothes which are worn by celebrities incite people to buy more, and this increases the sales. These are strategies to attract shoppers. In last years people have been wasting a lot of money. Products were advertised by big companies which have earned a lot of money.
To conclude, it is important to have a good pair of trainers to train, but isn’t necessary to have twenty pairs, and if you don’t use these shoes you should give them to someone who really needs them.
Inés Docampo Gamarra 4 A
The last years the levels of consumerism increased.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion we buy a big amount of things that we don´t need and I include myself victim about this consumerism.
Everyday on television and on billboards there are ads that incite you to buy, in addition the shop displays are designed for draw the attention and even if you don´t need it, you buy it. Today a lot of things are sold on Internet, this makes your purchase easier because you don´t have to move for buy something.
Moreover, the low prices products that the multinationals sell, also encourage the purchase, preventing buy things on small shops. It bothers me that the multinationals profit about the workers. This excessive consumerism increase pollution.
In conclusion we have to keep in mind that we must reduce our purchase and be careful with the problems. Remember the cheap is expensive.
Marta Cao Cao 4º A
Nowadays most of the products are bought online because new technologies allow it.
ReplyDeleteThe products which are bought on the Internet are more dangerous than the products which are bought in shops because they may be damaged, even broken or, in the case oh chothing, may not be the right size.
I belive that in the future, all types of products will be purchased on the Internet.
In my opinion, buying online may not be safe since there are a lot of online stores which are not reliable or may cheat the buyer.
I think it would be better if many of the products were bought in physical stores since there would not be so many problems.
I think that many of the problems of shopping online is that many people do not know the essentials to make the purchase.
In conclusion, I believe that people should be informed before buying products online.
Nowadays, we let ourselves be influenced by what other people say: for example, a person says that a cosmetic product works well for him or for her and everybody thinks that it will be the same for them, but it is not always true:it does not work that way.
ReplyDeleteFor instance,the products that are used by people who have oily skin do not suit people with dry skin. That means that a product which is good for somebody does not neccessarily fit somebody else's needs.
I think that if the people who sell cosmetics previously give some samples to customers so they can try them out, and if people stop being influenced by the adverts they see,everything will be much better. In conclusion, I would not trust in what usually works for most people and I would ask for free samples in order to verify that this product is suitable for me.
Marta Da Silva 4A
Lo mando desde mi cuenta ya que a ella no le deja subir la redacción desde su móvil
Nowadays, there are a lot of adverts that incite us to buy any type of items. In my opinion, comercials are useful to discover new products, but sometimes we buy things that we don’t need.
ReplyDeleteEverywhere we look, we can find ads of items that advertising agencies want to sell. Along the street we can see people hanging out flyers to promote new items, such as cars, food, clothes and many other things. Millions of items are bought by costumers in famous online stores such as Alibaba or Amazon, even though we don’t really need them.
To conclude, I think that in stores there are too many similar products for sale that people buy, but the companies that make them, do it to earn more money.
Belén Garcia Arias
DeleteIn our days is very difficult to go to a shop and no see an advertisement. This is a problem for people who don't have a big budget and have problems to control himself and maybe the person is tempted and finally end up buying.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion the companies should stop putting too much ads becayse they can make people to feel unhappy or sad. For example a shirt of the make Louis Vuitton or Prada, this kind of clothes aren't able for the people with a little budget. Not long ago an advertisement was posted by the company Gucci in Dododoma in Tanzania, and a lot of people can't buy anything and they were angry. In my view if prices were reduced, consumers would buy more.
To sum up, advertising is a waste of money for all of us, companies and all the world adn we have to stop the unnecessary ads and only show the goods that all the world can buy it.
Mario Fernández Cabanillas 4ºESO A