Scribd
Upload
636 views2 pages

Test Mobile Phones

Here is a 123-word response to part a: While mobile phones provide clear advantages in keeping in touch and accessing information, they also present disadvantages in terms of cost and overdependence. Finnish parents see mobile phones as important for their children to stay connected and learn digital skills needed in today's society. However, teenagers may feel their privacy is invaded if parents monitor them too closely. Owning a mobile phone is also expensive, with purchase costs and monthly bills. Additionally, heavy mobile use could potentially lead to health issues like eyestrain and neck/back pain from hunching over small screens. With mobiles becoming essential in daily life, there is a risk of becoming too reliant on the technology and unable to disconnect even temporarily.

Uploaded by

Marija Micunovic
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
636 views2 pages

Test Mobile Phones

Here is a 123-word response to part a: While mobile phones provide clear advantages in keeping in touch and accessing information, they also present disadvantages in terms of cost and overdependence. Finnish parents see mobile phones as important for their children to stay connected and learn digital skills needed in today's society. However, teenagers may feel their privacy is invaded if parents monitor them too closely. Owning a mobile phone is also expensive, with purchase costs and monthly bills. Additionally, heavy mobile use could potentially lead to health issues like eyestrain and neck/back pain from hunching over small screens. With mobiles becoming essential in daily life, there is a risk of becoming too reliant on the technology and unable to disconnect even temporarily.

Uploaded by

Marija Micunovic
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

Name :_______________________________

Date : ________________________________

Read the following text:

The Finns may be more diligent about preparing their kids for the future
than most nationalities. But they do seem to do it with unusual degree of
conviction about what´ s going to be important-one big reason they buy
their teenagers mobile phones and foot the monthly bills about 40 dollars.
A study by the Information Society Research Center at the University of
Tampere (sponsored by wireless operator Sonera, Nokia and Tekes, the
government agency that promotes technology and doles out development capital) concludes that parents see
a mobile phone as a “ key to the information society”.
Keeping tabs on the little rascals may be just a supplementary benefit-and maybe not even a benefit, if
Heidi, a 15 year-old in Leena Nordman` s English class, is to be believed. “My mom` s always calling me,
“ she says, rolling her eyes.
When Norman a Physical Education teacher tells her students that they` re allowed to get their phones out
one spring day, they all proudly do so. Some of the boys immediately start playing games built into the
small, colorful devices. And Heidi and a few kids are eager to tell other people about their obsession. First
of all, the thing is not a phone.
It´ s a kannykka ( a little hand), a luuri ( a transmitter) and sometimes a kapula ( a stick).
Or just a Nokia.
Most of these fairly well-off kids have computers at home, and enjoy visiting chat houses. But like other
Finnish teens, they really get a charge of the relatively cumbersome e-mail capability available on their
phones. There´ s a 161 character limit, the inconvenience of a telephone keypad- and the thrill of gossiping,
flirting or just bombarding each other with smiley faces, all for less than the cost of a voice call.
Eija-liisa Kasesniemi, who ran the Information Society Research Center study, says the kids have their own
vocabulary here, too. Is mobile-text-messaging just for kids? Phone
Company Radiolinja might have thought so when it debuted a service shortly before Christmas one year.
But when half of Helsinki realized that last-minute electronic cards are more convenient than paper ones-
and crashed the network-Radiolinja understood that it had something bigger on its hands.
Source: Newsweek, May 1999

I- True or false ? Support your answer by quoting from the text.

a) Finnish parents consider that a mobile phone is a superfluous object.


b) They don` t mind paying the extra costs these objects represent.
c) Sometimes teachers allow students to use their mobiles in class.
d) Teenagers never use their devices for sending e-messages
e) This kind of communication is causing a transformation of the normal language of communication

II- Explain.

a) why Finnish parents consider it is important for their children to have a mobile phone.
b) why sometimes teenager would rather not have them.
c) what students do when they are allowed to use their mobiles in class.
d) what they use their e-mail for.
e) what kind of language they use when they send their messages through e-mail.
IV- Choose either subject a or b and write 120/150 words about it:

a- Write about the advantages or disadvantages of owning a mobile phone. You may refer to: need of
mobiles; the attraction of mobiles; the dependence on these devices ; cause of future diseases, etc

b- Comment on the following : “ We live in a materialistic society.”

You might also like