Students Worksheet

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UNDERSTANDING THE POEM

Say who the following pronouns refer to .

I :

them ( l.2)

We :

a) What or who do these words refer to ?

media

( l.8)

- device ( l. 12)

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- rich greedy bastard ( l. 15)

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Pick out all the words related to social networking sites

Read from

( l. 1 to l . 32 )

. Make a list of nouns or adjectives that convey some positive / negative meaning.

positive

noun

negative

adjective

noun

adjective

What do these 3 words underline ? What do they suggest about our relationship to social media:
self-promotion self-image self-interest

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Read the whole poem and pick out all the elements which emphasize the theme of social isolation.

Social isolation

Pick out arguments showing that were slaves to the technology we mastered ( l. 14)

According to the narrator, how can we live life the real way ? What should we be doing / could we do
instead of looking down at our smartphones ( l.27 end) ?

Now pick out ideas and arguments to describe the 2 worlds the speaker refers to .

the world we live in today

the world we used to live in before social media