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    Unidad 2 Lectura 1 - Ciclo I

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    The document discusses whether the digital world can fully replace the physical world. While online shopping and virtual learning have benefits of convenience, people still desire physical experiences. Amazon opened a physical bookstore because seeing real books entices purchases more than online versions. Students in online universities may miss face-to-face discussions with peers and teachers. Words like "cut" and "paste" come from physical actions. Despite streaming and downloads, people still enjoy physical music formats like vinyl records and print magazines are growing, showing the enduring appeal of tangible items. While digital has its advantages, many feel a need to physically touch and interact with items like real books on their shelves.

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    The document discusses whether the digital world can fully replace the physical world. While online shopping and virtual learning have benefits of convenience, people still desire physical experiences. Amazon opened a physical bookstore because seeing real books entices purchases more than online versions. Students in online universities may miss face-to-face discussions with peers and teachers. Words like "cut" and "paste" come from physical actions. Despite streaming and downloads, people still enjoy physical music formats like vinyl records and print magazines are growing, showing the enduring appeal of tangible items. While digital has its advantages, many feel a need to physically touch and interact with items like real books on their shelves.

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    The document discusses whether the digital world can fully replace the physical world. While online shopping and virtual learning have benefits of convenience, people still desire physical experiences. Amazon opened a physical bookstore because seeing real books entices purchases more than online versions. Students in online universities may miss face-to-face discussions with peers and teachers. Words like "cut" and "paste" come from physical actions. Despite streaming and downloads, people still enjoy physical music formats like vinyl records and print magazines are growing, showing the enduring appeal of tangible items. While digital has its advantages, many feel a need to physically touch and interact with items like real books on their shelves.

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    Unidad 2 Lectura 1 - Ciclo I

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    The document discusses whether the digital world can fully replace the physical world. While online shopping and virtual learning have benefits of convenience, people still desire physical experiences. Amazon opened a physical bookstore because seeing real books entices purchases more than online versions. Students in online universities may miss face-to-face discussions with peers and teachers. Words like "cut" and "paste" come from physical actions. Despite streaming and downloads, people still enjoy physical music formats like vinyl records and print magazines are growing, showing the enduring appeal of tangible items. While digital has its advantages, many feel a need to physically touch and interact with items like real books on their shelves.

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    UNIT 2 – THE DIGITAL WORLD

    Reading 1
    Skills:

    - Details

    - Author’s purpose

    Getting started: Have you ever bought something online? Was it a positive experience?

    GET REAL! CAN THE DIGITAL WORLD EVER REPLACE


    THE PHYSICAL WORLD?

    It was Amazon that started Internet shopping by moving book sales online. So why on earth
    did they later open a physical bookstore? lt seems they discovered that people may buy a book
    online, but what makes them want to buy the book, is seeing it as a real object in a physical
    place.

    Virtual learning
    Virtual universities now provide free video lectures to millions of students. Online tests mark
    themselves automatically, students grade each other's essays, and there are Internet forums, too.
    But don't the students miss face-to-face discussions with each other? And isn't an enthusiastic
    teacher better in a classroom than on a video?

    Old words, new meanings


    Nearly all workers today spend time sitting in front of a computer screen,
    and we seem to lose touch with the physical world. We even forget that
    many of the words we use digitally come from the real world.
    For example, graphic designers used to cut out text and pictures with
    scissors, and paste them into a document to get everything in the layout
    right!

    Physical survives
    People thought downloading and streaming would take over music sales completely, and that
    we'd enjoy being free of physical CDs. But the sales of even vinyl records are booming, and it's
    the same in other areas. Board games are still popular, despite all the digital games around. And
    the number of high quality print magazines has been growing, too.
    A book in the hand ...
    Perhaps Amazon realized that although we may enjoy the
    convenience of e-Books, we don't love them in the same
    way that we love real books in our hands and on our
    shelves. We don't even feel that the e-Books we've
    bought are ours. And it just doesn't seem right that the
    greatest of all the classics, War and Peace, looks the same
    on an e-Book screen as a two-page report on traffic
    problems.

    Overall then, while digital has its fans, it's clear that many people still feel the need for
    something physical that they can touch and feel.

    Glossary:

    - Cut: to delete (= remove) part of a text on a computer screen in order to place it somewhere
    else.
    - Paste: to copy or move text into a document from another place or another document.
    - Layout: the way in which the parts of something such as the page of a book, a website, a garden
    or a building are arranged.
    - Streaming: a method of sending or receiving data, especially video, over a computer network.
    - E-book: a book that is displayed on a computer screen or on an electronic device that is held in
    the hand, instead of being printed on paper.

    Answer the following questions:

    1. What is the author’s attitude towards the digital world?


    2. What did Amazon do that was surprising?
    3. What might students in online universities miss?
    4. Which words have we forgotten the real meaning of?
    5. What are some examples of the physical world surviving despite the digital fever?
    6. Why is it difficult to love e-Books themselves?

    What do you think?


    Do you think virtual learning can replace face-to-face education?

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