Lesson

Two

Reading

Pre-

Look at the picture, read the captions and the title “Alone together” then
guess what the text is about:

While

Now, read the text and answer the questions:

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1. Tick the right option: mobile devices
are…
a. damaging family life
b. changing family time
c. becoming a big time consumer.
2. Pick out ONE detail from the text
showing that the following statements
are false:
a. Children spend more time in using
mobile devices than parents.
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b. Family members have no time to meet.
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c. Today more and more people are
worried about how to live without mobile
devices
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3. Find in the text words/expressions that
mean nearly the same as:
a. looking fixedly at = …………………. (prg.1)
b. effects (n.pl) = …………………. (prg.1)
c. affects (v) = …………………. (prg.3)
d. unity (n)= …………………. (prg.4)
4. Find two antonyms in paragraph 4:
………………………. # ……………………….
5. What does the underlined word: ‘it’ in
(parag.5) refer to?
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6. How can using mobile devices affect
face-to-face family interactions?
…………………………………………………………………
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7. Do mobile devices represent a real
threat to communication in your family,
outside and at school? (Answer this
question in groups and subgroups answer
the following question).
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7. Class discussion: Are you for or against
planning ditox days or a total ban of
mobile devices for children and
teenagers?
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Post
1. There is now widespread concerned about
the amount of time children spend staring at
screens – with many people worried about
the negative impacts mobile devices might have on
health and well-being.
2. Concerns have also been raised about the
influence of technological change on relationships
and face-to-face interactions. Sherry Turkle, a
professor of social studies, came up with the
famous term “alone together”: spending time on
devices to the neglect of interacting with those who
are physically nearby…
3. Contrary to expectations, we found that children
spent more time around their parents in 2015 than
in 2000. Our data shows that mobile device use cuts
across all aspects of family time. We found that
children and parents both spent approximately the
same amount of time (around 90 minutes) using
mobile devices when together.
4. There is more time together, but less time spent
engaging with each other. There is increasing
evidence that the mere presence of a
phone negatively affects face-to-face interactions.
This may explain parents’ perceptions of decreasing
family cohesion and time together with their
children.
5. Indeed, we found that both children and parents
were using mobile devices during family meals,
television viewing, and other activities. So even
though this was for a relatively small amount of
time, it may have a disproportionate impact on the
quality of this time for family members.
www.theconversation.com
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 Language
P Prepositional Verbs
Active Vs. Passive Adjectives: - exciting / - excited

1 Circle the verbs that can be turned into adjectives as in the example above:
say - decline - read - care - soar - walk – frighten – dream – treat

2 Match the words that correlate in (A) and (B):

(A) (B) Meaningful pairs

1. loving a. voice 1. _______

2. shining b. blue eyes 2. _______
3. understanding c. sun 3. _______
4. rising d. noise 4. _______
5. threatening e. tone 5. _______
6. sparkling f. father 6. _______
7. deafening g. noise 7. _______
h. person

3 Complete the conversation:

A: That was an exciting film, wasn’t it ?

B: Oh, do you think so? I’m (1)

__________________ you liked it.
Excit…
I though it was rather (2)
__________________ . Excit…
1. Surpris…
A: Well, it was (3) __________________
2. disappoint…
once or twice. I didn’t
3. puzzl…
understand the whole story. It was (4)
4. confus…
__________________ in
5. bor…
places. But the end was good.
6. interest
B: I was (5) __________________ most
of the time. I didn’t find it a
very (6) __________________ film.

7.

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 Pronunciation 4

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

Write a 12 –line facebook comment on the following photo:

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Fun Page

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 6
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)