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Reading
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Look at the picture, read the captions and the title “Alone together” then
guess what the text is about:
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Now, read the text and answer the questions:
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1. Tick the right option: mobile devices Alone Together
are…
a. damaging family life 1. There is now widespread concerned about
b. changing family time the amount of time children spend staring at
c. becoming a big time consumer. screens – with many people worried about
the negative impacts mobile devices might have on
2. Pick out ONE detail from the text
health and well-being.
showing that the following statements
are false:
2. Concerns have also been raised about the
a. Children spend more time in using
influence of technological change on relationships
mobile devices than parents.
…………………………………………………………… and face-to-face interactions. Sherry Turkle, a
b. Family members have no time to professor of social studies, came up with the
meet. famous term “alone together”: spending time on
…………………………………………………………… devices to the neglect of interacting with those
c. Today more and more people are who are physically nearby…
worried about how to live without mobile
devices
…………………………………………………………… 3. Contrary to expectations, we found that
children spent more time around their parents in
3. Find in the text words/expressions 2015 than in 2000. Our data shows that mobile
that mean nearly the same as: device use cuts across all aspects of family time.
a. looking fixedly at = …………………. We found that children and parents both spent
(prg.1) approximately the same amount of time (around
b. effects (n.pl) = …………………. (prg.1) 90 minutes) using mobile devices when together.
c. affects (v) = …………………. (prg.3)
d. unity (n)= …………………. (prg.4)
4. There is more time together, but less time spent
4. Find two antonyms in paragraph 4: engaging with each other. There is increasing
………………………. # ………………………. evidence that the mere presence of a
5. What does the underlined word: ‘it’ phone negatively affects face-to-face interactions.
in (parag.5) refer to? This may explain parents’ perceptions of
………………………………………………………..… decreasing family cohesion and time together with
6. How can using mobile devices affect their children.
face-to-face family interactions?
……………………………………………………………… 5. Indeed, we found that both children and
………………………………………………………… parents were using mobile devices during family
7. Do mobile devices represent a real meals, television viewing, and other activities. So
threat to communication in your family, even though this was for a relatively small amount
outside and at school? (Answer this of time, it may have a disproportionate impact on
question in groups and subgroups answer the quality of this time for family members.
the following question). www.theconversation.com
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7. Class discussion: Are you for or
Post 2
Languag
P Prepositional Verbs
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Active Vs. Passive Adjectives: - exciting / - excited
Circle the verbs that can be turned into adjectives as in the example above:
1 say - decline - read - care - soar - walk – frighten – dream – treat
7.
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Pronunciatio 4
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Listen to the words. Is the « S » pronounced / S/ or / Z/. Write S or Z
in the box.
Screens Shows
Impacts Aspects
Parents Interactions
Minutes Meals
Writing
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1 Dictation: (choose any type of dictation: Full dictation, partial dictation, Prediction etc. (see the article
about the different types of dictation and how they are presented)
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2 Play this game in groups. Circle any word you learnt or read in 4
today’s lesson.
R E L A T I O N S H I P T T R
P F E N G A G I N G F Z K O E
J A I N F L U E N C E G D G X
S L U w I D E S P R E A D E P
M O B I L E T O T T N C N T E
O N Q J X V N V C G G O E H C
H E L T H I M W A I A H V E T
A W P I S C D U P Z G E C R A
X I C M C E E W M C E S E D T
I N T E R A C T I O N I A N I
T F F Z E L E S S N T O M J O
C O N C E R N Y E M R N T H N
M L U Z N E G L E C N F P F K
Suggested readings: (provide links to reading passages in relation to being hooked (addicted) to mobile
devices/ social media. (check the links I sent to you together with the reading materials)