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Cool hunting

 

Go to PBS website and have a look at the page about cool hunting. It looks like this.

You will have to watch and listen to a video about cool hunting. To get to the video, click on Watch the Full Program Online. Then click on Chapter One - Hunting for cool.

Now watch the first 2 minutes of the program, not more, then get back to 0:37 to listen carefully to the part which begins with "On a summer afternoon, in a downtown New York loft, corporate America is on a very serious mission." Listen to what the man sitting on a chair says and what the voice over says.

 

Open a new word-processor document - WORD or OPEN OFFICE - and write your answers after copying and pasting (to paste = coller) numbers 1 to 18.

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  1. Find out why the boys are there.
  2. Find out what the man on the chair wants them to do.
  3. Find out what they will have to talk about in detail. 4 things.
  4. Find out if they are paid for doing that.
  5. Find out how much they are paid - if they are paid.
  6. Write down what the man on the chair tells them. It begins with "Tell me some of ..."
  7. Write down two or three adjectives that you understand.
  8. They are all approximate synonyms. They all mean ___________.
  9. Find out why the information that the man is looking for is so important. (to be worth : valoir)
  10. Find out how many teenagers there are in the United States.
  11. Find out if it's the largest or the smallest generation of teenagers ever.
  12. Find out what their parents' generation was called.
  13. Find out how much money teenagers or teens spent last year.
  14. Find out how much money their parents spent for them.
  15. Find out if they have more money than ever before or if they have less money than ever before.
  16. A television marketing executive called Bob Bibb says, "Teens run today's _______________."
  17. Find out what parents want to do according to him.
  18. Find out what "guilt money" is according to the market researcher called Sharon Lee.

 

END OF PART 1
TO GO TO PART 2, CLICK HERE
Part two is only for those who want to work some more on it or for those who finished the first part quickly.

 

 


 

 



COOL HUNTING - a PBS PROGRAM

COOL HUNTING - Part 2

 

Computer help

Use the keyboard shortcut - raccourci clavier - ALT + TAB to switch from one window to another. It's important as you will have to work with three open windows.

  1. This window with the instructions
  2. The window with the video
  3. The window with the word processor document

You will have to COPY and PASTE numbers 1 to 18.