a) Four things teens usually use social media for: communicating with friends, sharing photos and videos, keeping up with trends and celebrities, and entertainment.
b) The effects of night-time social media use on teens include increased anxiety and risk of depression from feeling pressure to be available 24/7 and respond immediately to messages.
c) Teens feel emotionally invested in social media such that a fifth will wake up at night just to check social media for fear of missing out. However, teens need more sleep than adults and nighttime use can negatively impact health by making teens tired, irritable, and depressed due to lack of sleep.
a) Four things teens usually use social media for: communicating with friends, sharing photos and videos, keeping up with trends and celebrities, and entertainment.
b) The effects of night-time social media use on teens include increased anxiety and risk of depression from feeling pressure to be available 24/7 and respond immediately to messages.
c) Teens feel emotionally invested in social media such that a fifth will wake up at night just to check social media for fear of missing out. However, teens need more sleep than adults and nighttime use can negatively impact health by making teens tired, irritable, and depressed due to lack of sleep.
a) Four things teens usually use social media for: communicating with friends, sharing photos and videos, keeping up with trends and celebrities, and entertainment.
b) The effects of night-time social media use on teens include increased anxiety and risk of depression from feeling pressure to be available 24/7 and respond immediately to messages.
c) Teens feel emotionally invested in social media such that a fifth will wake up at night just to check social media for fear of missing out. However, teens need more sleep than adults and nighttime use can negatively impact health by making teens tired, irritable, and depressed due to lack of sleep.
a) four things teens usually use social media for. 8th I – Reading Comprehension b) the effects of night-time social media use on teens. The digital landscape has put increased pressure on teenagers today, and we feel it. There are so many social 2. Complete the sentences according to the media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, text. Tumblr, you name it. I made a conscious decision to avoid a) June kept away from a couple of social Snapchat and Instagram because of the social pressure I saw networks since … them putting on my 14-year-old little sister. If my mum b) June’s sister would ask June for her phone turned off the WiFi at 11pm, my sister would beg me to turn when … my phone into a hotspot1. She always needed to load her c) It is very important for her sister to reply to Snapchat stories one more time, or to reply to a message every message at night so that … that had come in two minutes ago because she didn’t want d) She would accuse June of messing up her her friend to feel ignored. If I refused, saying she could social life whenever … e) For teens not being able to reply instantly respond in the morning, I’d get the “You’re ruining my social to a message … life” speech. Even as a teenager as well, I sometimes find this f) Some teens are so obsessed with social craze a little baffling. media that … A new study has found that teenagers who engage with social media during the night could be damaging their sleep 3. True or False? Quote from the text to and increasing their risk of anxiety and depression. justify your answers. Teenagers spoke about the pressure they felt to make a) June doesn’t understand her sister’s themselves available 24/7 and the resulting anxiety if they obsession with social media at times. did not respond immediately to texts or posts. Teens are so b) Teenagers feel pressured to be constantly emotionally invested in social media that a fifth of secondary online. school pupils will wake up at night and log on just to make c) June simply hated it when she was unable to log on for a week. sure they don’t miss out. Perhaps the worst thing about this is that teenagers need more sleep than adults do, so night- 4. Identify the phrasal verb in the first time social media use could be detrimental to their health. A paragraph and explain its meaning. lack of sleep can make teenagers tired, irritable, and depressed. 5. What do the following mean? During the summer holidays, I lost my phone. And for the a) 24/7 week that I was phoneless, it felt like a disaster. I love my b) FOMO phone. It gives me quick access to information and allows me to be constantly looped in with my friends, to know 6. Find the words in the text which mean the same as exactly what is going on in their lives. So when I didn’t have a) greater than before (paragraph 1) my phone for a week, I felt a slight sense of FOMO, or if b) exaggerated enthusiasm (paragraph 1) you’re not up to speed with the lingo, fear of missing out. By c) harmful (paragraph 2) the end of the week, I’d got used to not having a phone and d) easily annoyed (paragraph 2) I’d quite enjoyed the break from social media. But there was e) connected with (paragraph 3) still a lingering sense of sadness at the back of my mind that there would be conversations I had missed, messages that 7. What do the underlined words in the text had been sent, funny videos shared and night-time chats refer to? that I would probably never get to see. a) we By June Eric Udorie b) them in http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/16/social-media- c) that mental-health-teenagers-government-pshe-lessons d) this e) their 1 a place where a wireless Internet connection is available A. Rewrite the following sentences in the passive voice . Make any necessary changes. a) A friend of mine has just sent you a friend’s request. b) Social websites are causing some potential harm to society. c) Students often use slang words on social networking sites. d) Parents should check on their children when they use the Internet.
B. Complete the gaps to give it a future meaning.
– I’ve made up my mind. I (a. send) you a friend’s request on Facebook. Done! – Nice. I (b. add) you in a minute. Do you know what? Tomorrow I (c. meet) someone I befriended on Facebook. Will you come with me? – I’m afraid I can’t. By this time tomorrow I (d. visit) my grandparents.
C. Rewrite the sentences with “I wish”. Make any necessary changes.
a) My best friend spends too much time on Facebook. b) I am so addicted to social networks.
III - Writing
Using about 180 words, write an opinion text on the following.
Do social networking sites play an important role in your life?
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