Vocabulary: IT, Technology and Phrasal verbs: Screen-life balance

IT:
Apps – Comment – Instant messaging – Password – Privacy settings – Profile – Social
networking sites – Video games

Technology:
Change your privacy setting - Check your phone – Delete a post – Install antivirus software –
Post a comment – Report a problem – Send (instant) messages – Set a password – Tag a friend
– Update your profile – Upload a photo

Exercise (IT and technology):

1. Match the words in the box to definitions.

App – Instant messaging – Password – Privacy – Social networking – Video games

a. You can use this small computer program on your phone, for example to play a game
__________________.
b. These settings help to protect and keep your information secret online
__________________.
c. Don’t tell people this word or set of numbers, or they can get into your computer
__________________.
d. You can play these on a computer __________________.
e. These sites are places where people can chat and share photos _________________.
f. You use this to write to your friends using your phone or computer ______________.

2. Match 1-6 with a-f to make technology phrases.

1. SEND a. YOUR PHONE
2. TAG b. SOME PHOTOS TO A SOCIAL
3. CHECK NETWORKING SITE
4. UPLOAD c. A TEXT TO A FRIEND
5. DELETE d. YOUR PROFILE
6. UPDATE e. A FRIEND IN A PHOTO
f. A POST THAT YOU AREN’T HAPPY WITH
3. Complete the dialogues with the correct words and phrases.
Phrasal verbs:

Chill out – Get away from – Hang out with – Log off – Meet up with – Print out – Switch off –
Sign out – Take up – Work out

Exercise (Phrasal verbs):

1.Choose the correct words to complete the sentences:

1. I sometimes forget to log away/off when I've finished using my laptop.

2. Who does George usually meet/hang out with at the weekends?
3. Are you going far away/up on holiday this year?
4. I never switch/sign, out of social media sites.
5. Shall we meet out/up with Max on Saturday?
6. Don't spend all your time doing homework – you need to chill/rest out sometimes!
7. Sara wants to take up/off running this year.
8. Please switch/sign your phone off and put it away!

2.Complete the sentences with the phrasal verbs in the box. There are two phrasal verbs you
don’t need.

Chill out – Go away – Meet up with – Print out – Switch off – Sign out – Take up – Work out
First and second conditional:
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Third conditional:
Complete using first, second and third conditional.

1. If I _____________________(know) the truth I wouldn’t have said that.

2. If you don’t hurry up, you ___________________(be) late.
3. If I ______________________(win) the lottery, I would travel around the
world.
4. Water _____________________(boil) if you heat it enough.
5. If he _________________(speak) better English, he would move to London.
6. If Peter __________________(study) more, he would have passed the exam.
7. If Anna was taller, she ___________________(not wear) heels so much.
8. ________________you_____________________(go) to the park if it doesn’t
rain?
9. I would be so happy if I _________________(be) to get married.