Page 1 HOMEWORK DOCUMENT EXTRA READING TOPIC FOR MINDMAP The use of mobile phones has increased dramatically in recent years. What are the positive and negative effects of this trend? A. Read the following text and learn interesting vocabulary and ideas from it. Refer to the Glossary in part B for explanations of the meaning of new words. 1. PROS The mobile phone has proven indispensable in modern life. -Mobile phones are good for emergencies. If you are in an accident, you can call for help. If you are lost, if your ear breaks down, wherever you go you have access to another person unless you are out of range of service. Cell phones can also be used by children when an event earthquake, or in the most serious of eases: school attacks. ay happen at schools, like a tornado, hey have multiple uses Mobile phones are multi-functioned. They can be used for a variety of tasks. You can listen to music, watch movies, play games, store notes, make video calls, and also set an alarm for your waking up. Motile phones have become the modern day personal assistant, ~They save more time and money You can connect with your families and friends who live far away without expensive costs. There are also free apps for you to use like Skype or Zalo to call whcever you want to call without any cost - They have made information accessible to use. We can use mobile phones to access and gather data for study or research purposes. People use various platforms to read news, study, and learn about other hobbies 2. CONS Mobile phones lower quality face- to- face commu Mobile phones have jeapardize interpersonal relationships. They have become intrusive and have taken away from our face to face connections. Just go to any restaurant and you will see entire families glued to their cell phone screens instead of interacting with one another. = Mobile phones increase stress Being over-reliant on a mobile phone can be bad for a person’s psychological health. Excessive use of mobile phones has been associated with anxiety, irritation, frustration and impatience. A study on young people and mobile phones found that 60% reported that they felt very agitated when they could not access their phone -Mobile phones cause constant interruptionPage Since you're always connected when you have your mobile phone, it becomes harder to ignore interruptions. People are always on their phones receiving calls, checking out their friends on Facebook, chat ‘WhatsApp, checking emails and listening to music The line between work and private life is much more blurred, with many workers shopping, checking private mails and reading newspaper online even when working ~ Mobile phones affect real interaction Today, socializing that involves real interaction is very rare. People have been reduced to interacting on social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, or chat applications such as Viber and WhatsApp. While there's nothing expressly wrong with chatting with your fiends on these platforms, it can be a problem it is done at the expense of face to face interaction. It can easily take you away from the real life activities and you will find it hard interacting with real people. Ina family where every family member has a mobile phone and uses it every time they are together, it might cause breakdown of relationships and Phubbing has become rampant in recent years, which has jeopardised interpersonal relationships. -Mobile phones can be dangerous. Cell phone texting while driving has caused 1,600,000 deaths by vehicle accidents a year. That is roughly about LI teens a day, which is an insane number of accidents cue to a device. -They can be addicting. With any device, there is always the chance that the user will become addicted to it. Cell phones are no different in this instance, in fact many have become addicted to cell phones. The average person checks their cell phone 110 times a day. which equates to roughly 9 times an hour After reading the extra reading and making the mindmap, answer the following questions: ‘What are the advantages of using mobile phones? What do you think of people who use their mobile telephone while driving? Do you think schools should ban mobile phones? Why?/ Why not? What are the disadvantages of using mobile phones? What would your life be like without your mobile phone? Do young people use mobile telephones too much? Why?/ Why not? What are some favourite functions on your mobile phone? ‘What new functions would you like to see on mobile phones? waene B, VOCABULARY FROM EXTRA READING WHO05 1. intrusive /in'tru:stv/ adjective (affecting someone’s private life in an annoying way) Social media may be intrusive ast is collecting your personal information that you don't want to share with anyone. -Social media marketing are often intrusive, unwelcome, and annoying -People may find security cameras too. trusive, 2. phubbing (n-/'tab.uy/ (the act of ignoring someone you are with and giving attention to your mobile phone instead) -Phubbing can hurt relationship and take its toll on family cohesionpaged -Phubbing has become rampant in recent years, - Researchers found almost half of relationships are affected by phubbing. 3. to jeopardise sth /"d3epadatz/ (to risk losing or spoiling something important) -Mobile phones have. jeopardised interpersonal relationships. -For many young Vietnamese, failing the university entrance examination can future. ~The increasing problem of noise pollution can jeopardise public tranquility. ~The outbreak of coronavirus disease can jeopardise the world’s entire economy. jeopardise their whole 4, entwined (ad- /in’twaind/ closely connected or unable to be separated) -Money and power are more closely entwined than ever. -Mobile technology has hecome entwined in our everyday life 5. to take away from (to spoil the good effect or success that something has) Cornuption takes away from the country’s efforts to develop its economy -I don't want to take away from his achievements, but he couldn't have done it without my help. -Mobile phones have taken away from face-to-face communicat 6. To blur sth (to make the difference between two ideas, subjects etc less clear) -His films blur the boundaries between fact and fiction, - Nowadays, the difference between male and female roles has become blurred. 7. to disregard sth (to ignore something or treat it as unimportant) -Mark totally disregarded my advice You can't just disregard the security problem! -He told us to disregard everything we'd learned so far and start again -That is not to say that we could disregard the negative aspects of mol phones. 8. to be glued to sth (to look at something with all your attention) -Many people are glued to their smartphone screens every day, even during meetings in office and also while at home. -He was glued to the TV when the Olympics were on -Many children spend hours in succession on the couch with their eyes glued to the television screen or mobile phones. -Her eyes were glued to the screen. 9. to feel agitated /'zedzitertd/ adjective (so nervous or upset that you are unable to think calmly) -A study found that 60% of young people reported that they felt very agitated when they could not access their phone. -She became very agitated when her son failed to return home. -He sounded very agitated on the phone. 10, Mobile phones have become the modern day personal assistantPage4 C. VOCABULARY FROM VIDEOS FOR SHADOWING ‘VIDEO: THE POWER OF CRYING 1. a really dramatic film (n) ~ m6t b6 phim kinh tinh 2. heroine (n) /"heraoin/ = nf anh hing 3. to burst out crying = bat khoc -Everyone was quiet when Janice suddenly burst out erying. 4, stereotypical (adj) /,steria'upikal/ = relating to a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing, khuén mau - The idea that men don't show their emotions and women cry all the time. That's a bit stereotypical to ery in public = khée 6 noi cing cong a build-up of frustration (n) = su tich tu cia nbiing that vong undealt-with situations (n) = céc tinh hudng khdng duroe gidi quyét a final straw moment (n) = mét khoanh khie giot nude tran ly 9. to get a label = become thought of as having a particular character, bi gan nhan 10. resentments /r1'zentment/ ~a feeling of anger to build up your resentments = tich ty nhiing oan haa, bye tire 11, to weep = tocry 12. abacklog =a large number of things that you should have done before and must do now, cng viée tn dong -I've got a huge backlog of work to do, -When left undealt with, these feelings can ereate a backlog. 13, an accumulation of unresolved issues /,ann' zolvd/ = su tich ty céc van dé khong duoc gidi quyét 14, to become a ticking bomb ~The refugee camp is a ticking bomb waiting to go off = IF you don't deal with your feelings, you might become a ticking bomb waiting to explode 15, the final straw = giot nude tran ly -Then anything someone says to you can become the final straw. Pas WHOS5-Task 1-sample ‘The run chart illustrates the sales of computers at VH Warehouse Ltd from 1999 to 2001. It can be seen clearly from the graph that the number of computers sold went through a period of erratic behaviours and the trend was obviously downward. After falling gradually from 14,000 machines to approximately 6,000 machines in the first four quarters, computer sales improved markedly in the first quarter of 2000 when they surged more than 100% to 12,000. From the first quarter of 2000 through to the first quarter of 2001, purchases dropped gradually at a much slower pace to around 7,000. In the second quarter of 2001, there was a dramatic decline in computer sales to under 2,000 machines, followed by a sudden leap to 8,000 in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter ‘of 2001, the volume of sales declined dramatically again to approximately 3,000 machines. In conclusion, over the period presented, the decrease in computer purchases was significant. (159 words)