I- Read the text and

answer the following

questions.
a) What is “nomophobia”?
You know the feeling – you have left your phone at home b) Who does nomophobia affect?
and feel anxious, as if you have lost your connection to the
c) Which users are most affected?
world. “Nomophobia” (short for no-mobile phobia) affects
teenagers and adults alike. You can even do an online d) What feelings do users have
test to see if you have it. Last week, researchers from Hong when deprived of their mobiles?
Kong warned that nomophobia is infecting everyone. Their e) What is FOMO?
study found that people who use their phones to store,
f) What can people do to reduce
share and access personal memories suffer most. When
users were asked to describe how they felt about their phone dependency?
phones, words such as “hurt’” (neck pain was often II- TRUE or FALSE?
reported) and “alone” predicted higher levels of
a) Nowadays, people can test their
nomophobia.
“The findings of our study suggest that users perceive phone dependency online. _____
smartphones as their extended selves and get attached to b) Only teenagers are affected by
the devices,” said Dr Kim Ki Joon. “People experience
nomophobia. _____
feelings of anxiety and unpleasantness when separated from
their phones.” Meanwhile, an American study shows that c) Users consider their smartphones
smartphone separation can lead to an increase in heart rate as parts of themselves. _____
1-and blood pressure. d) Being apart of our smartphone
So can being without your phone really give you separation
anxiety? Professor Mark Griffiths, chartered psychologist and causes a feeling of relief. _____
director of the International Gaming Research Unit at e) People use their smartphones
Nottingham Trent University, says it is what is on the phone mostly to chat with their relatives
that counts – the social networking that creates Fomo (fear
and friends. _____
of missing out).
“People don’t use their phones to talk to other people – we III-Find words with the same
are talking about an internet-connected device that allows meaning.
people to deal with lots of aspects of their lives,” says
a) alerted ___________________
Griffiths. “You would have to surgically remove a phone from
a teenager because their whole life is ingrained in this b) discovered __________________
device.” c) keep ___________________
Griffiths thinks attachment theory, where we develop
d) uneasiness _________________
emotional dependency on the phone because it holds details
of our lives, is a small part of nomophobia. For e) deep-rooted ________________
“screenagers”, it is Fomo that creates the most separation f) signs _____________________
anxiety. If they can’t see what’s happening on Snapchat or
Instagram, they become panic-stricken about not knowing
what’s going on socially. “But they adapt very quickly if you
take them on holiday and there’s no internet,” says Griffiths.
Deliberately separating from your phone by turning it off or
leaving it at home can reduce dependency and anxiety.
Griffiths says the criteria for phone addiction include it being
the most important thing in your life, building up the time
you spend on it, withdrawal symptoms, using it to de-stress
or to get excited. Your phone-use also needs to compromise
relationships or work and provoke inner conflict – you know
you should cut down, but can’t. Few people, Griffiths says,
fulfill these criteria. But surely many of us experience some
of them.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/28/does-phone-
separation-anxiety-really-exist?
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V- How do people feel/behave in these
situations? Use the words from the left.

1- Mobile phones keep us _______________

2- Are you ___________ to your smartphone?
3- With email and technology at fingertips, many companies expect
employees to stay _____________ all day.
4- Sarah lost her phone, and now she feels so
_______________ , so ________________! She is
V- How do people feel/behave in these situations? Use
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