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Unit 6 Bargains P1 Listening and Speaking Activities P2 Reading Comprehension and Language Activities P3 Extended Activities P2 Reading Comprehension  and Language Activities Pre-reading Task Notes Comprehension work Language work (A, B) P2 Reading Comprehension  and Language Activities Pre-reading Task Discuss the following questions. Do you like to bargain when doing shopping? When and why? Is bargaining a weakness or strong point in human nature? Why? Is bargaining harmful or beneficial to our society? Bargains Let us take the orthodox definition of the word bargain. It is something offered at a low and advantageous price. It is an opportunity to buy something at a lower price than it is really worth. A more recent definition is: a bargain is a dirty trick to extort money from the pockets of silly and innocent people. Bargains I have never attended a large company’s board meeting in my life, but feel certain that the discussion often takes the following lines. The cost of producing a new — for example — toothpaste would make 80p the decent price for it, so we will market it at ￡120. It is not a bad toothpaste (not specially good either, but not bad), and as people like to try new things it will sell well to start with; but the attraction of novelty soon fades, so sales will fall. When that starts to happen we will reduce the price to ￡1.15. And we will turn it into a bargain by printing 5p OFF all over it, whereupon people will rush to buy it even though it still costs about forty-three percent more than its fair price. Bargains Sometimes it is not 5p OFF but 1p OFF. What breathtaking impertinence to advertise 1p OFF your soap or washing powder or dog food or whatever. Even the poorest old-age pension ought to regard this as an insult, but he doesn’t. A bargain must not be missed. To be offered a “gift” of one penny is like being invited to dinn