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This document summarizes a passage about a woman named Alice Thompson who participated in a 24-hour experiment without using her mobile phone. The passage describes how Alice regularly uses text messaging to coordinate social plans with friends and to communicate with acquaintances, finding it less intimidating than phone calls. It also notes how texting and email allow Alice to stay in touch with old school friends more easily. The document also discusses perspectives from experts on the popularity of texting. A psychologist believes people enjoy crafting messages through texting and are able to present themselves in a controlled way. A teacher encourages students to text her with questions, finding it a less disruptive way for them to connect.
Call reading lesson
- 1. UNIT 6: IT’S YOUR CALL READING
- 2. WARM-UP
- 3. What kind of mobile phones are you using?
- 4. What do you usually use them for?
- 5. What do you usually use them for?
- 6. What if you are not allowed to use phones during 24 hours?
- 7. READING LESSON A VERY DIFFICULT 24 HOURS
- 9. 1. Relieve A. Question 2. Querry B. Be free from anxiety 3. Interruption C. Recognize something/somebody 4. Identify D. The ability to change easily 5. Flexibility E. Become fashionable 6. Take off F. The act of stopping something from happening Match the words in the left column with their correct meanings in the right column 1. Relieve B. Be free from anxiety 2. Querry A. Question 3. Interruption F. The act of stopping something from happening 4. Identify C. Recognize something/somebody 5. Flexibility D. The ability to change easily 6. Take off E. Become fashionable
- 10. NOW WE’RE GETTING THE MESSAGE • You are going to read a text about a woman who spent a day with her mobile phone switched off as part of an experiment. • Seven sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from sentences A-H the one which best fits each gap (1-7). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
- 11. Task1:Readthetextandfillintheblankwitha suitablewordfromthe box 1. I really like fruits. ……….., I love eating strawberries, avocados, tomatoes, … 2. ………. protecting humans from danger, guns are being used for killing each other. 3. The director of Master Company was sick so she couldn’t attend the meeting. ………., she sent her secretary. 4. I really want to join the Christmas party, ……. I have so much homework to do and have to stay home. Rather than Instead But For example
- 12. Task1:Readthetextandfillintheblankwitha suitablewordfromthe box 1. I really like fruits. For example, I love eating strawberries, avocados, tomatoes, … 2. Rather than protecting humans from danger, guns are being used for killing each other. 3. The director of Master Company was sick so she couldn’t attend the meeting. Instead, she sent her secretary. 4. I really want to join the Christmas party, but I have so much homework to do and have to stay home. Rather than Instead But For example
- 13. Task1:Readthe text againandanswerthesequestions 1. Does the 1st paragraph all discuss the drawbacks of the technology? 2. Where does Alice Thompson invite her friend to? 3. In the 3rd paragraph, why does Alice mention how she knew a guy through texting? 4. What does “it” in the 4th paragraph mean? 5. Do you think the teacher in the 6th paragraph strange when she stimulated her students to text her when they needed?
- 14. Task1:Readthe text againandanswerthesequestions 1. No. It tells about the advantages of technology. 2. To a club. (a kind of social gatherings) 3. Because it helps her avoid shyness. 4. The fact that she can keep in touch with her old friends. 5. Yes. It is a new and strange thing that not many teachers do.
- 15. 1st paragraph When computers first started to be used on a wide scale, some people predicted that we would spend so long staring at computer screens that we would end up forgetting how to talk to one another. 1 G. But in fact, the rapid expansion of electronic communication in the 21st century has had the opposite effect. Rather than retreating into themselves, people are using new technology, in particular email and text messaging, to find more and more ways to expand their network of friends.
- 16. 2nd paragraph Alice Thompson, 23, is known as the Text Queen to her friends because she sends out so many messages. "When we go out, my friends and I text other friends, saying, "We're in this club and it's really good. Come and meet us.” (2) C. This flexibility when making social arrangements means she no longer has to plan ahead, she says. Instead, decisions can be made on the spot, and friends can be gathered together at a moment's notice.
- 17. 3rd paragraph Alice has found text messaging has other advantages too. "If there is a guy I like, I find it easier to send text messages initially rather than phone him up," she says. (3) H. She finds that she feels less nervous that way."There is one guy, a friend of a friend, who I don't know that well, but we've started to text message each other and that's how we communicate. I would never phoned him up but this way it feels OK."
- 18. 4th paragraph Text messaging and email also help Alice keep in touch with old schoolmates she would probably have lost contact with otherwise. (4) A. She can send them a message saying "Hi, thinking of you," much more easily than sitting down to write a long letter. And she finds it's a great tool for relieving boredom in the office where she works, by sharing secret messages and passing on jokes.
- 19. 5th paragraph It seems these forms of communication have filled a gap, offering something that face-to-face conversation does not. Professor Pam Briggs, a psychologist at the University of Northumbria, believes that people enjoy sending text messages and emails because they can take their time planning their message, and they can be a bit more playful, inserting jokes, pictures and bits of video clips. (5) F. Through such additions, she says, they have the chance to present themselves to the others in the way that they want to.
- 20. 6th paragraph The fact that text messages are so quick and easy is a big part of the attraction. Many people also find text messaging more informal than making a phone call or writing a letter, and therefore simpler to use. Annabelle Rose, who teaches at London sixth form college, encourages her students to text her when they have queries. "They don't find it so difficult to keep in touch that way," she says. "I think they feel that a phone call might be more of an interruption. I've always given my number out to students and told them to call me if they have any problems. (6) D. But no one ever did before text messaging really started taking off."
- 21. 7th paragraph So is it all good? Annabelle has identified one negative result of text messaging. "My students have developed their own way of writing as well, which can cause a few difficulties as they have started using these abbreviations in their normal writing. B. For example, they might write "tomoro" for "tomorrow", she says." But they are never rude. If I text them back answering their queries they always send another message saying "Thx", even though it's not really necessary.”