Shopping Carts

UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE
FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y HUMANIDADES
CENTRO DE IDIOMAS

LISTENING PRACTICE


I. We are now going to listen to a new recording. It’s about SHOPPING CARTS.Do you know what a shopping cart is? What do you think we will listen to in this audio text? What vocabulary could be contained in this recording?



II. Listening, Reading and Vocabulary.
1.Complete the passage with words from the boxes. Then listen to the radio program to check your answers. Provide a title for the article.

Title( _____________________________________________
A new(1)_________________into the hygiene of supermarkets has found that shopping carts are dirtier than the store’s (2)________________. Microbiologist Dr Charles Gerba of the University of Arizonaconducted research on the handles of 85 carts in four American states. He reportedly found (3)_________________from human waste on the handles of 72 per cent of them. "That's more than you find in asupermarket's toilet," Dr Gerba said. He explained: "That's because stores use (4)_________________cleaners in the restrooms. Nobody seems to routinely clean and disinfect shopping carts." Further, half ofthe carts in Dr Gerba’s study tested positive for E. coli bacteria, a nasty (5)____________________that can cause diarrhoea, vomiting and serious infection.
Professor Gerba is known as “Dr Germ”because of the number of studies he has done on bacteria and everyday objects. His previous studies (6)__________________of bacteria on reusable shopping bags, airplane seat-back trays, ground-floorelevator buttons, water fountain toggles, computer keyboards, iPads and playground equipment. He said just about anything (7)___________________ by children has a high chance of contamination. He(8)___________________people to wash reusable shopping bags after use, otherwise they’ll become full of “bacterial swamps”. He added: “It’s like wearing the same underwear every day.” Gerba said the best way...