{"id":29225,"date":"2024-11-18T14:43:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T13:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=29225"},"modified":"2024-11-22T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T09:10:40","slug":"inflation-impacts-americans-social-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2024\/11\/inflation-impacts-americans-social-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation Impacts Americans&#8217; Social Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>B2 &#8211; Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inflation doesn\u2019t just impact money\u2014it changes how people spend time together. As prices for things like food, transportation, and entertainment rise, many are cutting back on eating out, going to events, or hosting get-togethers. Budgets now play a bigger role in planning social activities, with more people choosing cheaper or free options. This shows how financial challenges can also affect relationships and how communities connect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the video to learn more and be able to answer the following questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How inflation is impacting Americans&#039; social lives\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TGaDKLIHBKo?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vocabulary Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What does &#8221; <strong>disposable income<\/strong>&#8221; mean? &#8220;<em>Gen X and Millennials are struggling with having <strong>disposable income<\/strong>.<\/em>&#8221; Use it in a sentence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What does the idiom, &#8220;<strong>to keep up with the Joneses<\/strong>&#8216; mean? &#8220;<em>It&#8217;s a whole new &#8216;<strong>keeping up with the Joneses<\/strong>&#8216;. I can&#8217;t have friends because it doesn&#8217;t live up to an Instagram ideal.<\/em>&#8221; Make one sentence using the word.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What does &#8220;<strong>to<\/strong> <strong>live up to<\/strong>&#8221; mean in this sentence, &#8220;<em>I can&#8217;t have friends because it <strong>doesn&#8217;t live up <\/strong>to Instagram ideal.<\/em>&#8220;? 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