Shopping Secrets When Buying in Bulk

Shopping Secrets When Buying in Bulk.

Extra Work: Buying in Bulk (in your CD).

Video in your I-pod: "Shopping Secrets: Buying in Bulk".
Video name on your CD: "Shopping Secrets: Buying in Bulk" Mpeg4 file.

Exercise.
Watch the video and answer the questions below.

Questions about Context
1. What does Teresa have to say about shopping at Costco?

2. What did Professor Brian Wansink find out about consumer behavior from warehouse club shoppers?

3. What are the 5 pieces of advice from experts about shopping in warehouse clubs?

Vocabulary
Divide up. Verb.

Overeat. Verb.

Partner. Verb.
Slap. Verb. Open.

Use up. Verb.

Useful Phrases.
A bundle.

Buddy system.

Go bad.

Hard earned.
In bulk.

Membership card.

Register.

So she says.

The savings.

Tub of Mayonnaise.

Warehouse club.

Way over my budget.

Jobs in New York.

Extra Work: Stories About Jobs in NY (in your CD).


Audio in your I-pod: "storiesAboutJobsinNewYork".

Audio name on your CD: "storiesAboutJobsinNewYork.mp3".

Exercise.
Listen to the audio and share stories about previous jobs.

Questions about Context
1. Mention some details of the crappy job Frankie had before
2. Mention some details about the other guy's previous jobs


Vocabulary
Balance. Verb.
Crappy. Adjective.
Drop. Verb.
Sip. Verb.
Stalk. Verb.

Useful Phrases.
Get fired.
Graveyard shift.
Out of pity.
Put it on my bill.
Minimum wage job.
Wear my contacts.

Get Help to Quit Smoking

Extra Work: Getting Help to Quit Smoking (in your CD).


Video on I-tunes and the I-pod: "D.C. Smokers Get Help Quitting".

Video name on your CD: "D.C. Smokers Get Help Quitting" MPEG-4 File.

Exercise.
Watch the video and answer the questions below.

Questions about Context.
1- Mention some of the options offered to get some help to quit smoking.
2- What's the story about Gloria Albright?
3. Mention some of the risks related to smoking.
4. What does Debra Annand have to say about smoking and the treatments to quit?
5. What's Gloria's advice?

Vocabulary
Attitude. Noun.
Counseling. Noun.
Target. Verb.

Useful Phrases.
A number of times.
On my own.
Nicotine patches.
Way too many.
Will power

Soda Ban Explained

Extra Work: Soda Ban Explained (in your CD).
Video on I-tunes and the I-pod: "NYC Soda Ban Explained sort of-SD".

Video name on your CD: "NYC Soda Ban Explained sort of-SD" MPEG-4 File.

Exercise.
Watch the video and answer the questions below.

Questions about Context.
1- Could you please explain in your own words what Mayor Bloomberg tries doing to reduce obesity in New York City?
2- Which stores are subject to follow the new regulations? Why?
3- Why is it ok for Starbucks to keep selling its Venti size?
4- And how about the Oreo Vanilla Cookie Colada at Dunking Donuts? Why is it ok to sell that?
5- But what is the whole purpose of this new regulation?

Vocabulary
Ban. Noun.
Epidemic. Noun. 
Obesity. Noun.
Outlaw. Verb.

Useful Phrases.
Same deal.

Migraine and its symptoms

Migraine and its Symptoms.

Audio.
Listen to what these people have to say about migraine.http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/12/15/health/healthguide/TE_migraine.html?ref=health
(you can also listen to the first 3 in your CD)

Exercise.
Tell us what triggers their migraines and what it is like to live with it for them.
Skip Masland:
Vickie Martin:
William Car:
Aviva Goldfarb
Tracey Makowsky:
Terri Sinnott:

Vocabulary and Terminology.

Biofeedback is a technique that involves reducing the effects of pain and stress on your body by learning how your body reacts to pain and stress. Biofeedback does this through monitoring instruments that can detect and display internal bodily function. This can give people better control over body function indicators such as blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, muscle tension, and brain waves. Biofeedback is a type of complementary and alternative medicine known as mind-body therapy.

Biofeedback for migraines may be coupled with relaxation therapy. Relaxation therapy teaches a variety of relaxation strategies for reducing tension and stress throughout the body.

Beta-adrenergic Blocking Agents
AKA Beta-Blockers
Description

This group of medicines is commonly used as a Migraine preventive treatment, they are known as beta-adrenergic blocking agents, beta-blocking agents, or, more commonly, beta-blockers. Beta-blockers are primarily used in the treatment of high blood pressure (hypertension). Some beta-blockers are also used to relieve angina (chest pain) and in heart attack patients to help prevent additional heart attacks. Beta-blockers are also used to correct irregular heartbeat, as stated above, prevent Migraine, and treat tremors. They may also be used for other conditions as determined by your doctor.

Beta-blockers work by affecting the response to some nerve impulses in certain parts of the body. As a result, they decrease the heart's need for blood and oxygen by reducing its workload. They also help the heart to beat more regularly.

Idiomatic Expressions.

For the count. In boxing, a boxer would lose the fight if he can’t get back on his feet before the referee counts to 10.

Script.
Find the script at http://englishvillemexico.blogspot.com/2010/04/scripts-lesson-17.html .