CHAPTER 4Shopping the new drug of choice

Reading 1Addicted to the Mall

Miss Denisse Lopez

Addicted to the Mall• What activities you do

for recreation?

• Many people spend their free time shopping and they are called recreational shoppers.

Recreational Shoppers• Enjoy the shopping experience• The mall is more than stores is

an adventure.• The mall represents happiness

and fulfillment.• The art of looking for and

buying is more fun than owning.

• Younger, less self-confident and often more females.

• More interested in material things and had no self-control.

• Shop when they feel angry, depressed or worried.

• Pretend to be someone different.

Ordinary Shoppers• People had more self-

confident and self-control.• Buy things because they need.

Classwork Activity

• Book Activity: Page 41 Reading 1 Exercise A and B. Page 43 Guess meaning Reading 1.

• Vocabulary words in notebook: Addicted, Recreation, Happy, Shop, Stores, Angry, Depressed.

• Answer the following questions:– According to what you have learnt, describe a recreational

shopper in 50 words.– How often do you buy things?– Which are the things you buy the most?– Do you consider yourself a recreational shopper? Why or

why not explain in 75 words.