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Kids spend a lot of time on screens these days.

And where there are screens, there are ads.

And lots of them.

In this video, you're going to learn how advertising rewires kids' brains.

Carl Sagan once said that the visions we offer our children shape the future.

But these days we're not treating kids like shapers of the future, we're treating them like shoppers of the future.

How?

By serving up ads everywhere.

On TV, with product placements and the shows they watch, in apps and even in video games.

But kids don't always understand that advertising isn't designed to shape them into healthy, happy adults.

It's designed to sell them more stuff.

Some marketers even intentionally take advantage of young people's insecurities

and their desire to fit in and that's all

because advertisers care about what's best for their bottom line not what's best for kids

so what do children learn from this constant stream of advertising kids learn

that buying more stuff leads to more happiness in short the more ads kids see the more materialistic they become

that means that they're more likely to say they want to be rich

and famous when they grow up and that having lots of money is important to learn more I talked to this guy.

Josh from Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood explained some of the consequences of these materialistic values.

Research shows that kids who are more materialistic report lower levels of happiness

and that's not surprising given that materialism teaches us that stuff is what's important.

In fact it's actually our relationships and our life satisfaction that makes us happy.

These materialistic kids also have lower academic performance and it may be

because they're more concerned with appearing successful than actually learning new skills

and ideas and when it comes to sharing

and caring well they don't care about that either

when asked what they would do with the money

if they won the lottery kids who were more materialistic are less likely to say they would use

that money to help others oh yeah they're less likely to care about the environment too the research shows

that materialistic kids are less likely to recycle or turn off the lights

when they leave a room but advertising doesn't just affect kids brains it's harming their bodies too.

About 98 % of televised food ads that kids see are for unhealthy foods like soda, candy, and fast food.

Studies have shown the more ads for unhealthy food that kids see, the more of this unhealthy food that they eat, raising their risk for obesity, diabetes, and other health complications.

Black and Hispanic kids and teens are exposed to twice as much junk food marketing as their white peers.

So yeah, advertising is really bad for children and for society at large.

But here's the good news.

People know that advertising to children is a problem.

In one poll in 2014, 57 % of respondents supported banning all advertising to children.

You can be part of the solution too.

Let's help kids understand what commercials and marketing are all about and teach them that more stuff doesn't bring more happiness.

Just as kids learn negative lessons from advertising, they can unlearn it too.

And that starts by asking questions.

If you watch media with your children, that gives you the opportunity to have conversations when the advertisements come on.

You can ask your children, what is the ad trying to do?

Who made it?

But it's also important to reduce children's screen time.

Not only will that improve their academic performance, help with their relationships, and make them more physically healthy, but it will also reduce their exposure to advertising,

which is trying to convince them of the big lie, that stuff will make them happy.

Groups like the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood can help.

So the Campaign for Commercial -Free Childhood has all sorts of resources to help parents

and caregivers reduce the amount of time that children spend with ad -supported screens.

And finally, we advocate for policies that would protect children from marketing, because if we want less materialistic kids, it's important that we change the rules of society so

that all kids have a chance to grow up and be citizens first and consumers later.

Thank you.

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Over deze les

In deze les ga je oefenen met het begrijpen en nabootsen van spraak uit een video over reclame en kinderen. Je leert niet alleen nieuwe Engelse woorden en zinnen, maar ook hoe je met de shadowing techniek je spreekvaardigheid verbeterd. De video heeft een heldere, conversationale toon, perfect voor beginners en gevorderden die hun fluïditeit willen verbeteren. Door te oefenen met deze inhoud, leer je snel hoe je complexe onderwerpen kunt volgen en hoe je je eigen spraak aanpast aan verschillende tempo's.

Belangrijke woorden en zinnen

Materialistic (materieel gericht): "Kids who are more materialistic report lower levels of happiness."
Product placements (productplaatsing): "Ads appear in shows through product placements."
Bottom line (winst): "Advertisers care about their bottom line, not kids' well-being."
Obesity (obesitas): "Unhealthy food ads raise the risk of obesity."
Advocate (pleiten): "Groups advocate for policies to protect kids from marketing."

Oefentips voor schaduwspraak

De video heeft een gemiddeld tempo, met veel conversationale zinnen die perfect zijn voor schaduwspreken. Hier zijn enkele tips: - Start met het afspelen van een korte fragment (5-10 seconden) en herhaal onmiddellijk na de spreker. Let op de intonatie en de pauzes, vooral bij zinnen als "Get in loser, we're going shopping" (luister naar de humoristische toon). - Gebruik de shadowing techniek om je uitspraak te verbeteren: focus op klanken zoals "advertising" (let op de 't' en 's' geluiden) en "environment" (de lange 'e' en 'o' geluiden). - Verhoog geleidelijk de lengte van de fragmenten. Na een paar keer kun je zelfs de video afspelen zonder te pauzeren en proberen om met te praten. Dit helpt je om te leren reageren op het tempo van het Engels. - Herhaal de delen waar je moeite mee hebt, zoals de uitleg over onderzoek ("Research shows that kids..."). Door te oefenen met deze zinnen, word je sneller in het begrijpen en spreken van complexe zinnen.

Met deze oefeningen maak je snel vooruitgang. Onthoud: leer engels met video's is een leuk en effectief manier om je vaardigheden te verbeteren. Veel succes!

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	isn't designed · are exposed
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	kids who are · kids who were

Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?

Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.

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