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3 Look at the sentences below and match each one with its form.

a Asa verb after a preposition i Sewing, knitting, reading - the / re all f c .(

b As sentence subject hobbies.

c To list activities ii They like watching films at home together.

d To add information in a clause iii After having a shower, I went to bed.

e In continuous tenses iv They are waiting for the bus in the rain .

f After certain verbs v Cooking is one of her favourite hobbies.

vi She wandered off, speaking on her phone.

4 Write six sentences using - ing in each of the six different forms from Exercise B 3.

C Skills
Reading
1 You are going to read an internet article about social networks for teenagers. Before you read
the article look at the questions a -j and choose one of the following forms of social media. Each
one may be chosen more than once.
A Twitter
B Facebook
C Snapchat
D Instagram

a It is currently the most successful

b It does not appeal as much to young people

c About twelve months ago it was most favoured by young people

d Presently it is almost equal in popularity

e Increased use by older people has made it less trendy

f An alternative and more recent social media

g It still hasn ’t reached the level of its main competitor.

h It is connected to one of the main forms of social media .

 i This suits a specific market and is becoming popular. ..
j It had never been the owner 's intention for it to be hip.

2 Now decide if these four statements are true or false. Give reasons.
a Teens rated Twitter the ' most important ’ social media network , rue
with Facebook and Instagram close behind.

b Last year, Facebook was rated the most important by 42% of teens i rue

c This year, Facebook was rated the most important site by only 239b of teens. i rue

d Teens told researchers they dislike Facebook because of ‘drama ’, true

too many adult users and other users ‘over-sharing’.

3 Quickly skim the internet article below and see if your answers for Exercises Cl and C 2 were
correct.

J Twitter overtakes Facebook as the most popular social

network for teens, according to study
[1| Mark Zuckerberg admitted it and a new study has proved it: Facebook is no longer cool with teens. The semi-
annual ‘Taking Stock with Teens’ study indicated that Twitter has overtaken Facebook as the most important
social media network. Last year, 42% of teens rated Facebook as the most important social media network , while
this year only 23% rated it as the most influential . Twitter was rated by 26% of teens as their ‘most important’ social
media site. Not to be outdone, the Facebook-owned Instagram also garnered 23% of votes , up from 12% last year.
[2| The study, by investment firm Piper Jaffray, gathers information relating to teen spending patterns, fashion trends,
and brand and media preferences. Another study, Pew’s Teens, Social Media and Privacy report, had similar findings.
Pew’s focus groups said the popularity of Facebook is waning because of parental and adult use of the site, other users
‘over-sharing' and ‘drama’ that can erupt between Facebook ‘friends’. According to Pew’s research, despite its lack of
‘cool’, teens continue to use Facebook because ‘participation is an important part of overall teenage socialising'. The
study also noted that teens have an average of 300 Facebook friends, but only 79 Twitter followers"
|3| ‘I got mine [Facebook account] around sixth grade. And I was really obsessed with it for a while. Then towards
eighth grade, things changed . Once you get into Twitter, if you make Twitter and Instagram accounts, then you'll
just kind of forget about Facebook . That’s what I did ,’ one teen told Pew researchers .
|4| Zuckerberg himself may concur with teens who think Facebook is no longer cool.
People assume that we're trying to be cool. It ’s never been my goal. I’m the least cool person there is! IVe’re almost
ten years old , so we' re definitely not a niche thing any more , so that kind of angle for coolness is done for us ,’ he said in
September. Instead of being cool , he wants Facebook to be a too! people use every day, dike electricity'.
|5] 17% responded in the category marked ‘other’, and this indicates that other niche social media sites, such as
Snapchat and Vine, arc taking off in a big way with teens.
Adapted from : www.dailymail .co .uk
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Unit 16: Social medi

4 .
Find words or phrases in Iheartic loih il h I\J ( ' ,) M u r i i ' M f H M /i , >h

a important 01 significant ( paragraph l )

b not wanting lo bo beaten ( 1 )

c won or gained ( 1)

d fanatical or passionate ( 3)
e agree (4)

f special product (4)

5 What do the following numbers in paragraph 1 refer to?

Example: 42 is the percentage of teens who rated Facebook as the most important social media
last year.

a 23

b 26

c 23 (again)

d 12