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    This document discusses teenagers' use of technology and relationships. It notes that while technologies like phones, social media, and gaming consoles allow teens to connect with friends, some experts are concerned it may impact their ability to develop face-to-face relationships. However, others believe these technologies provide what teens need for social development at their stage of life. The document prompts readers to consider whether heavy technology use could hinder interpersonal skills or if it simply reflects how teens communicate in modern times.

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    Gold Experience

    Page 90

    Unit 8 Technology Rules!

    Reading. Power up

    1. Do you own a mobile phone, an iPod, a games console or any other form of
    technology? How often do you text your friends or contact them on Facebook?
    2. Do you think teenagers spend too much time using these technologies? Are there any
    dangers? If so, what are they?

    Read on

    3. Read the article quickly. Are any of your ideas from Exercise 2 re- ected in it?
    4. Read the article again. Choose which sentence (a–g) ts each space (1–6) in the text.
    You do not need one of the sentences.
    a. Phones do more than just text, of course.
    b. We need to remember that when they were - rst invented, the telephone, the
    car and the television all changed the way teenagers related to each other and
    to other people, and in a big way, too.
    c. She says the reason these technologies are so popular is that they are just
    what teens need at their particular stage of development.
    d. She said she thought social networking had actually helped her to be more
    herself.
    e. And experts seem to back that up.
    f. It’s the kind of situation many of her friends would never agree to risk, she
    claims.
    g. Does the fact that teens now spend so much time communicating through
    technology mean we are becoming less able to conduct face-to-face
    relationships, though?

    Exam

    When you do a gap- ll task, make sure you read what comes after the gap, including the rst
    lines of the next paragraph. Then make sure your sentence ts with the information both
    before and after the gap.

    5. Find words and phrases in the article that mean the following.
    1) people who are so strongly in uenced by something that they cannot make
    their own decisions (para A)
    2) one of two essential organs in your body that clean the blood (para B)
    3) birds that carry messages (para B)
    4) a place where friends write messages for you on Facebook (para C)
    5) online sites where you can ‘talk’ to other people in order to share personal
    information (para D)
    6) making someone feel admiration for you (para E)
    7) behaving as if you are attracted to someone, but not in a serious way (para E)
    8) talking too much about your own abilities and achievements (para E)
    9) talking about other people’s behaviour and private lives (para E)
    10) saying amusing or slightly unkind things to someone about their appearance,
    behaviour, etc. (para F)
    11) understood wrongly (para F)
    12) having a strong feeling of fear or anxiety (para H)

    Speak up

    6. If you could only own one technological gadget, which would it be? Why would you
    choose it?

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