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| |  It has to be said that some of us just LOVE to shop and are even happy to shop until we drop! This week saw the biggest internet shopping day of the entire year but are there any other ways to shop which also exclude a trip to the highstreet and logging onto the internet? Yvonne Archer discovers both the delights and the downfalls of teleshopping! You can also try our quiz in the Extras section below to practise some of the language used in the programme and you can refer to the vocabulary table below for helpful language.
Words and phrases from the programme mind-numbing extremely boring numb without feeling or emotion, e.g. a part of your body or your mind parade a line of people or vehicles moving along for a special event, but in this case, a line of goods that are on display for viewers to buy a coincidence when two or more related things or ideas unexpectedly happen at the same time upsides and downsides advantages and disadvantages obsessed a negative way to describe repeated and continued thoughts, behaviour or actions, e.g. when someone is always thinking about and going shopping addicted to the need and desire to behave in a certain way or to use something without being able to stop, even if it is very harmful shopaholic, workaholic, chocoholic, alcoholic someone who's addicted to shopping, work, chocolate, alcohol hard-wearing, durable, long-lasting strong and lasts for a long time even if it's used often, e.g. a rug Extras  Try the Weekender quiz Programme script (pdf - 53k) | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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