Thousands of Vietnamese preorder

iPhone 11 models
By Dat Nguyen   September 25, 2019 | 09:07 am GMT+7

A person holds the iPhone 11 Pro in an Apple Store in Bologna, Italy on September 20,
2019. Photo by Shutterstock/Pio3.

Thousands of Vietnamese citizens have pre-ordered the latest Apple iPhone

models before they are officially released in the country.

Major smartphone seller Mobile World said on its website that 2,097 people
have put down deposits of VND1 million ($43) each at the time of writing
for either the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro or iPhone 11 Pro Max models.

Another smartphone chain, FPT Shop, also reported 1,844 people putting
down deposits for the three models.

The two authorized resellers of Apple phones are scheduled to deliver the
phones on November 11.

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Industry insiders say that iPhone 11, released in the U.S. earlier this month,
are in higher demand than the flagship iPhone XS which was introduced last
year.

Last Friday, an estimated 500 people, most of them Vietnamese, queued up

in Singapore to buy the iPhone 11, some of them for 30 hours.
Vietnamese are also buying the new iPhones from Hong Kong to resell them in
their country for a higher price before the official release.

The iPhone 11 starts at $699 in the U.S. and is being sold 37 percent higher at
local shops in Vietnam, while the iPhone 11 Pro, starting at $999, is being sold
45 percent higher.

Statistics released by Google earlier showed that the iPhone 11 was most

popular in Vietnam, according to Vietnamese internet users. At midnight of
September 10, when Apple introduced the iPhone 11, the search volume for
the phone in the country rose by 500 percent compared to the previous 24
hours. Even so, Apple’s iPhone only had a 6.4 percent market share in
Vietnam in July, putting it behind Samsung, Oppo and Xiaomi, according to
market research firm GfK.
Taken from VnExpress, modified for PTE English Club

I. Match the items with their correct definition:

1. pre-order a. person/company allowed to sell
something they bought
2. deposit
b. stand in line
3. at the time of writing
c. the money that is paid first
4. authorized reseller
d. the number of searches
5. Industry insider
e. order an item before it comes out
6. queue up
f. a part of the market
7. search volume
g. a person in the business
8. market share
h. when the text is written

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II. Comprehension Questions:
1. How many people have put down deposits for iPhone 11, according to FPT
shop?
2. What was the price for the iPhone 11at first in the US?
3. Use the information from the pie chart and fill in the sentences with the
words/numbers from the box below:

least second third 40 25

most first fourth 60 10
- Samsung is the _______________ brand of smartphones in Vietnam, with
about _______________ percent of the total market share.
- The _______________ most popular brand is Oppo, standing at around
_______________ percent of the total market share.
- Apple comes in _______________ place, and only accounts for around 6.4
percent of the market share
- The _______________ popular brand is Realme, with only 5.2 percent of the
total market share.

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III. Discussion Questions:
1. Look at the smartphone models below, do you recognize them? Which brand
do they belong to?

2. Name a few smartphone companies that are popular in Vietnam. Who do you
think is the most popular? Why?
3. Which brand of smartphone is your favorite? Say 4 reasons why you like it
better than other brands.
4. What are the good points of smartphones compared to traditional mobile
phones and landline phones?
5. If you can get a smartphone for free, which one will you take?
6. Do you think people are using smartphones too much recently?
7. What are the bad points of using smartphones?