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Analysis of College Students' Chocolate Buying Habits and Meeting Reporting Skills

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    This article analyzes college students' chocolate buying habits while incorporating English listening lessons, exploring skills for reporting data and writing minutes in meetings.

    Hello, welcome back. Our topic this week is reporting in meetings. In the first lesson, we'll look at ways to refer to and discuss documents in a meeting. In lesson two, we'll work on ways to report specific data with a special focus on numbers and currencies, in this case, dollars and cents. And then, in lesson three, you'll learn more about writing minutes of meetings. In lesson one, you'll learn how to explain the background or purpose of a report, how to direct someone's attention to a document in a meeting, and how to point out specific information in a document or a table. You'll also learn how to report and refer to information from various sources.

    Oh, excuse me. I'm conducting a survey about buying the area. Do you have time to answer a few questions about buying candy? Okay, sure. Alright, so first are you a student? Yes, I'm a junior here. Okay, great. So next question, do you ever buy chocolate? Yeah, of course. Okay, how often do you buy chocolate? A lot. I have at least one every day. Okay, so between eight and ten times a week? Yeah, I'd say so.

    Do you usually buy regular chocolate or premium chocolate? Just regular chocolate, you know, like Hershey's or Cadbury's or something? How much do you think is a reasonable amount to pay for a chocolate bar? Two, three or four dollars. Two dollars, definitely. Okay, and do you ever buy chocolate to give as a gift to someone? Sure. How often do you think? Well, if someone's feeling sad or something, maybe once a month. And for a gift you buy a bar or a box? A bar. Okay, and for a gift, how much would you spend for a bar of chocolate? Two, three or four dollars. Well, it depends. We're probably three dollars. I don't have a lot of these days.

    Okay, and how often do you buy a box of plenty at a gift? Well, I don't think... Oh, wait, Valentine's Day. Yes, once a year, when you see. Great. Thank you for your time. I'd like to give you one of our Rainier Chocolate bars for helping us out. Thank you. Yeah. What did they learn about the college age consumer? Complete the following sentences based on the interview. Has at least one chocolate bar a day? Buys between seven and ten chocolate bars a week. Usually buys regular chocolate. Spends no more than two dollars per bar. Give someone a chocolate bar about once a month. Almost never buys a box of chocolate.

Vocabulary Guide

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  • occasion

    noun

    1. an event that occurs at a critical time

    e.g. at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave
    it was needed only on special occasions

    Synonym: juncture

    2. a vaguely specified social event

    e.g. the party was quite an affair
    an occasion arranged to honor the president
    a seemingly endless round of social functions

    Synonym: affairsocial occasionfunctionsocial function

    3. reason

    e.g. there was no occasion for complaint

    4. an opportunity to do something

    e.g. there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill

    5. the time of a particular event

    e.g. on the occasion of his 60th birthday

  • survey

    noun

    1. a detailed critical inspection

    Synonym: study

    2. the act of looking or seeing or observing

    e.g. he tried to get a better view of it
    his survey of the battlefield was limited

    Synonym: viewsight

    3. short descriptive summary (of events)

    Synonym: sketchresume

  • reasonable

    adj

    1. not excessive or extreme

    e.g. a fairish income
    reasonable prices

    Synonym: fairfairish

    2. marked by sound judgment

    e.g. sane nuclear policy

    Synonym: sane

    3. showing reason or sound judgment

    e.g. a sensible choice
    a sensible person

    Synonym: sensible

  • consumer

    noun

    1. a person who uses goods or services

  • reporting

    noun

    1. the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television

    e.g. they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations

    Synonym: coveragereportage

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