Technology

Speaking, discuss in
pairs
◦ If you had made plans to meet
your friends one evening and
discovered that you had left your
phone at home, how might it affect
your evening?
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◦ 1. Do the appropriate thing (line 3)

◦ 2. Preparing my PE kit (line 7)

◦ 3. With my long, speedy walk as justification (line 20)

◦ 4. But selling posh pies (lines 24-25)

◦ 5. The situation eventually becomes untenable (line 31)

◦ 6. Desperately eating the contents of the fridge (line 36)

◦ 7. Beyond the realms of plausibility (lines 40-41)

◦ 8. Not a firm arrangement, but a basis for negotiation (lines 46-47)

Speaking
◦ Do you agree that nowadays ´without a mobile phone you don´t exist?
◦ How dependent is your work or social life on having a mobile phone
or smartphone? Would your arrangements break down if you did not
have your phone?
◦ Do you consider yourself addicted to your phone? How often do you
check it for messages?
◦ Have you ever had to spend a day without your phone ? How did you
feel?