Reading Unit 4
Reading Unit 4
UNIT 4: MARKETING
READING
Members of group
1. Nguyen Thi Huong Quynh 7. Nguyen Thuy Anh
2. Nguyen Phuc Thu An 8. Nguyen Tu Quynh
3. Nguyen Phuong Nhung 9. Trinh Ba Kiet
4. Nguyen Thi Ngoc An 10. Bui Khanh Ly
5. Nguyen Viet Hoang 11. Ta Cong Do
6. Nguyen Huy Manh 12. Mai Thi Ngoc Anh
Table of Contents
01 03
UNIT QUESTION READING 2
Does advertising help or harm In defense of advertising?
us?
02 04
READING 1 CRITICAL THINKING
Can targeted ads change you? STRATEGY
Using a Venn diagram
1. UNIT QUESTION
Does advertising help or harm us?
A. Discuss these questions with your classmates.
1. Have you ever bought something because of an online ad? Do you think you were
targeted to receive the ad? Why or why not?
2. Has an advertisement ever helped you in some way? What kind of ad was it? How did
help you?
1. Yes, I have. I think so, because to win back our attention, ads have adapted to our
digital viewing habits by remembering what we read, buy online, then using this
information to sell us things they think we might like. While it way sound strange,
this practice called targeted ad, has become very common.
2. Yes, ads have helped in helping customers to know the right conductions that they
how to buy.
Personally, I am shopping ads on social networks. And ads have always helped me
and people to make a choice on their needs and products that would be best for it.
B. Listen to the Q Classroom online. Then answer the question.
1. Complete the chart with the ideas from the box. Then decide if each student thinks
advertising helps or harm us.
Felix
It make us want things we don’t need us
harms
Marcus It pays for a lot of things I like helps us
Sophy
You can’t trust the information you get from advertising harms us
2. Reading 1
Can targeted ads change us?
2.1. PREVIEW THE READING
A. Preview. Read the title and first paragraph. What is the article’s main idea?
Check (✔) your answer.
2. This change in how you see yourself may be the result of receiving an ad that was targeted
to you specifically.
- Advertisers look at where you go on the internet.
- Use algorithms to make a profile of you.
- Use the information about you to find ads you might interest about.
This is type of “behaviorally targeted”ad.
3. Researchers with college student.
- Explore how “behaviorally targeted”might change how people feel about themselves.
Created “browsing history”
5. The result showed that participants who had been behaviorally targeted to receive the ad
were more likely to purchase coupon.
- They saw themselves as a sophisticated.
2. Karen received an online ad for running shoes that was _____________ designed for her because
she is avid runner and buys a lot of running clothes. specifically
3. jack’s question at the meeting was not ____________ to our discussion of low sales: it was
completely off topic. relevant
4. Sam recommended some article on the effects of online advertising. These articles ___________ his
own review, based on the research he has done.
reflect
Accurate (v) Impact (n) Relevant (adj)
Acknowledge (n) Imply (v) Specifically (adv)
Factor (n) Reflect (v) Suggest (v)
F 1. All of the participants in the first study believed that they had characteristics implies by
____
ads they received. All Not all
T 2. Advertisers find information about you from the sites you browse on internet.
____
F 3. Participants who were told they received the ad based on their gender were more
____
interested in the products. More Less
T 4. Some ads implies that the consumer had particular characteristics, like being
____
sophisticated.
T 5. If consumers know they receives an ad because of their past browsing
____
history, they will be less interested in the product.
Condition Example
1. The consumer must know he or she Para 4. Some of the participants were told
received this ad because of his or her that they received the ad because of their
past online behavior. browsing history.
2. The ad must be accurate to the P8: Participants received an ad for hiking boots
consumer’s interest.
3. The ad must be based on the P2: When advertisers look at where you go
consumer’s past online activity. on the Internet, they use algorithms to
make a profile of you.
READING
SKILL
✔ positive negative
IN DEFENSE OF ADVERTISING
1. Advertising in 21st century
- Everywhere we look ( along highways, trains, buses,...)
- Provides us with quite a few benefits.
6. PSA
- Provide information about issues like diseases, medical problems
- Creative, informative, memorable.
____
6 1. PSAs provide people with information about things like medical
problems.
____
4 2. Professional sports depend on advertising.
3 3. Advertising helps support broadcasting.
____
____
2 4. Ads provide us with helpful information about products we want
to buy.
7 5. Advertisements make the world more colorful.
____
____
5 6. Ads help pay for the services that websites provide.
E. IDENTIFY Write an example for each of the benefits of advertising listed
in the chart.
Benefit Example
1. provides information for buying best deal for new car in newspaper
something
5. helps make the world more colorful clothing designers and photographers
to… help produce that catalog
F. EVALUATE Read the statements. Write A if the author would agree with a statement
or D if the author would disagree with it. Write the paragraph number to support your
answer.
Agree/Disagree Paragraph
1. In professional sports, what are some examples of things that advertising pays for?
Paragraph: ____ 4
fields, equipment, salaries of professional ethletes
2. What kinds of professionals work on a clothing catalog? Name at least three.
Paragraph: ____
7
store
3. Whyemployees, clothing
is it important thatdesigners, photographer,...
PSAs be very creative? Paragraph: ____
6
4.They
Whatneed
wouldto be
notmemorable
exist on thebecause
Internetthey provide
if there wereimportant information
no advertising?
Paragraph: ____
5
Website services such as online newspaper
VOCABULARY SKILL
A suffix is a group of letters that comes at the end of a word, such as -ful in painful. When you add a suffix
to a word, it changes the part of speech. Being familiar with suffixes can help increase your vocabulary.
Here is a list of suffixes.
1.unpredictable ✔
2. relationship
✔
3. recently
✔
4.painful
✔
5. dissatisfaction
✔
6.distrustful
✔
7. happiness
✔
8. donation
✔
9. certainly
✔
10.colorful
✔
GROUP 1