QUIZ REVIEW: SSP 107 Study Guide

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Sound Ideas Listening: In the U.S., consumers are the food wasters

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SSP 107 Listening: These Days, Family Trees Look More Like A Forest :

These Days, Family Trees Look More Like A Forest : NPR

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http://www.npr.org/2011/07/05/137627840/these-days-family-trees-look-more-like-a-forest

The traditional family tree has grown much more complicated in recent years. With increases in unmarried and same-sex couples, surrogates, and sperm donors, many families now organize two family trees — genetic and emotional. And some schools now skip the traditional classroom project altogether.

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Corporate "Greenwashing"

Write and answer three good questions about this video:

Short Listening: A Controversial Nike Ad

1.  What is the title of the advertisement?

2.  Who is in the ad?  What is he doing?

3.  What is the message of the ad?

4.  Was the boy's experience negative or positive?  How do you know?

5.  What are "haters?"

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Vocabulary / Phrases from this Listening
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campaign
inspired / inspirational / motivational
support
message
audience
experience
emotional
embarrassment
overweight
critical / critics / criticize
exploitation
discriminatory
"sculpted bodies"
"brilliant advertising"
"all of the above"
to "sweep [something] under the rug"
to lose weight