Invasive marketing and chilldren

Parents of young children and teens have an important role to play protecting their children from invasive marketing and in educating them about advertising from an early age.            According to Consumer Report magazine “young children have difficulty distinguishing between advertising and reality in ads, and ads can distort their view of the world.” Research has shown that children between the ages of two and five cannot differentiate between regular TV programming and commercials. Young children are especially vulnerable to misleading advertising and don’t begin to understand that advertisements are not always true until they’re eight.

obesity:causes and effects

Read the passage carefully then do the activities

In the United States, adult obesity rates have doubled, and teenage obesity rates have risen just as rapidly if not faster.  While medical treatments for obesity often focus on drugs and surgery, our epidemic of teenage obesity is not caused by a deficiency of diet pills or gastric bypasses. To truly solve the problem one must address the causes.

When any nation switches from a healthy unrefined diet to one of junk foods and fast foods, obesity rates increase dramatically, and continue to increase as the national diet worsens.  Why, does this happen?  Ultimately, weight management is about the classic equation of calories in, versus calories out.  When you start consuming processed foods, calorie intake goes up. 

advertising and society

PART ONE: READING ( 15 PTS )

Read the passage carefully then do the activities

                

     While advertising can be seen as necessary for economic growth, it is not without social costs. Unsolicited commercial e-mail and other forms of spam have become so prevalent as to have become a major nuisance for users of these services, as well as being a burden on the Internet providers. Advertising is increasingly invading public spaces, such as schools…

       The impact of publicity is greater on the poor than on the average working class family. The first are in need of almost every kind of modern comfort, consumption goods, travels and to mention a few of their unsatisfied necessities. The latter, on the other hand, do not all escape the negative effects of publicity. They are the victims, too. They are the slaves of fashion, new products and consumer goods and can't live without them.

Organic food

Part One: Reading /A-Comprehension:                               

       Read the text carefully then do the following activities.

         Organic food is food which has been produced to standards designed to keep the production more 'natural'.  Fewer, if any, chemicals are used and most pesticides are banned - when they are used they are very carefully controlled.

          For example in the UK, there are various bodies to certify food and producers as organic. One of the main ones is the Soil Association which checks organic foods are organic, runs campaigns to educate the public, helps farmers switch to organic farming and carries out scientific research into organic farming.