6 minute English – Are you addicted to

your smartphone?

1. Who is the guest speaker?

Rob and Catherine
2. How long does she spend on her smartphone?
18 to 19 hours
3. What does she suffer from?
Fomo
4. What does it mean?
Fear of missing out sth cool or interesting
5. What is a phubber?
Who ignores other pp bc you’d rather look at
ur phone
6. How many teenagers are addicted to their
phones?
Half of teenagers in the USA
7. What does addicted mean?
Have a physical or mental need to keep on
doing it
8. How long could Catherine go without her
phone?
A minute
9. What happens when she doesn’t have her
phone?
Sort of sweaty palms and feeling a bit panicky
 10. What is the quiz question?
In what year did the term smart phone first
appear in print
11. What is Jean Twenge’s job?
A psychologist
12. What did she write about?
The damage feelings smart phones are doing to
society
13. What is one of the dangers of using our
phones?
Get so involved in our phone…. Don’t notice a
time passing
14. What does compulsively mean?
Can’t really control
freature of being addicted to sth have to do it
again and again.
15. What are some tech companies doing
now?
Looking at buiding in timers to apps which
will warn us when we have spent too long
16. Does Jean think it’s a good idea? Why?
She does bc timers will make pp spend more time
in face to face interaction
17. How should we be using our phones?
Be using it for keeping in touch with pp which
pp
 18. What does ‘keeping in touch with people’
mean?
Contacting pp communicating with them
19. What does ‘in person’ mean?
Physically do it you go somewhere yourselfr
or see someone yourself
20. What is the answer to the quiz question?
1995