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    There is growing concern about the amount of time children spend on screens and the potential negative impacts on health and well-being. Researchers have also raised concerns about how technological changes may influence relationships and face-to-face interactions. A study found that children actually spend more time with their parents now than in 2000, but both children and parents spend about 90 minutes using mobile devices together, which may negatively impact the quality of their time together. While families spend more total time together, the presence of phones reduces engagement during interactions.

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    There is growing concern about the amount of time children spend on screens and the potential negative impacts on health and well-being. Researchers have also raised concerns about how technological changes may influence relationships and face-to-face interactions. A study found that children actually spend more time with their parents now than in 2000, but both children and parents spend about 90 minutes using mobile devices together, which may negatively impact the quality of their time together. While families spend more total time together, the presence of phones reduces engagement during interactions.

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    of 6

    Lesson

    Two

    Reading

    Pre-

    Look at the picture, read the captions and the title “Alone together” then
    guess what the text is about:

    While

    Now, read the text and answer the questions:

    1
    1. Tick the right option: mobile devices
    are…
    a. damaging family life 1. There is now widespread concerned about
    b. changing family time the amount of time children spend staring at
    c. becoming a big time consumer. screens – with many people worried about
    the negative impacts mobile devices might have on
    2. Pick out ONE detail from the text
    health and well-being.
    showing that the following statements
    are false:
    2. Concerns have also been raised about the
    a. Children spend more time in using
    mobile devices than parents.
    influence of technological change on relationships
    …………………………………………………………… and face-to-face interactions. Sherry Turkle, a
    b. Family members have no time to meet. professor of social studies, came up with the
    …………………………………………………………… famous term “alone together”: spending time on
    c. Today more and more people are devices to the neglect of interacting with those who
    worried about how to live without mobile are physically nearby…
    devices
    ……………………………………………………………
    3. Contrary to expectations, we found that children
    3. Find in the text words/expressions that spent more time around their parents in 2015 than
    mean nearly the same as: in 2000. Our data shows that mobile device use cuts
    a. looking fixedly at = …………………. (prg.1) across all aspects of family time. We found that
    b. effects (n.pl) = …………………. (prg.1) children and parents both spent approximately the
    c. affects (v) = …………………. (prg.3) same amount of time (around 90 minutes) using
    d. unity (n)= …………………. (prg.4) mobile devices when together.
    4. Find two antonyms in paragraph 4:
    ………………………. # ………………………. 4. There is more time together, but less time spent
    5. What does the underlined word: ‘it’ in engaging with each other. There is increasing
    (parag.5) refer to? evidence that the mere presence of a
    ………………………………………………………..… phone negatively affects face-to-face interactions.
    6. How can using mobile devices affect This may explain parents’ perceptions of decreasing
    face-to-face family interactions? family cohesion and time together with their
    ………………………………………………………………… children.
    ………………………………………………………
    7. Do mobile devices represent a real 5. Indeed, we found that both children and parents
    threat to communication in your family, were using mobile devices during family meals,
    outside and at school? (Answer this television viewing, and other activities. So even
    question in groups and subgroups answer though this was for a relatively small amount of
    the following question). time, it may have a disproportionate impact on the
    ……………………………………………………………… quality of this time for family members.
    …………………………………………………… www.theconversation.com
    7. Class discussion: Are you for or against
    planning ditox days or a total ban of
    mobile devices for children and
    teenagers?
    …………………………………………………………………
    …
    Post 2
    Language
    P Prepositional Verbs
    Active Vs. Passive Adjectives: - exciting / - excited

    1 Circle the verbs that can be turned into adjectives as in the example above:
    say - decline - read - care - soar - walk – frighten – dream – treat

    2 Match the words that correlate in (A) and (B):

    (A) (B) Meaningful pairs

    1. loving a. voice 1. _______


    2. shining b. blue eyes 2. _______
    3. understanding c. sun 3. _______
    4. rising d. noise 4. _______
    5. threatening e. tone 5. _______
    6. sparkling f. father 6. _______
    7. deafening g. noise 7. _______
    h. person

    3 Complete the conversation:

    A: That was an exciting film, wasn’t it ?

    B: Oh, do you think so? I’m (1)


    __________________ you liked it.
    Excit…
    I though it was rather (2)
    __________________ . Excit…
    1. Surpris…
    A: Well, it was (3) __________________
    2. disappoint…
    once or twice. I didn’t
    3. puzzl…
    understand the whole story. It was (4)
    4. confus…
    __________________ in
    5. bor…
    places. But the end was good.
    6. interest
    B: I was (5) __________________ most
    of the time. I didn’t find it a
    very (6) __________________ film.

    7.

    3
    Pronunciation 4

    Listen to the words. Is the « S » pronounced / S/ or / Z/. Write S or Z


    in the box.
     Screens  Shows
     Impacts  Aspects
     Parents  Interactions
     Minutes  Meals

    Writing

    Write a 12 –line facebook comment on the following photo:

    4
    5

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    Fun Page

    1 Dictation: (choose any type of dictation: Full dictation, partial dictation, Prediction etc. (see the article

    about the different types of dictation and how they are presented)

    5
    2 Play this game in groups. Circle any word you learnt or read in 6
    today’s lesson.

    R E L A T I O N S H I P T T R

    P F E N G A G I N G F Z K O E

    J A I N F L U E N C E G D G X

    S L U w I D E S P R E A D E P

    M O B I L E T O T T N C N T E

    O N Q J X V N V C G G O E H C

    H E L T H I M W A I A H V E T

    A W P I S C D U P Z G E C R A

    X I C M C E E W M C E S E D T

    I N T E R A C T I O N I A N I

    T F F Z E L E S S N T O M J O

    C O N C E R N Y E M R N T H N

    M L U Z N E G L E C N F P F K

    Suggested readings: (provide links to reading passages in relation to being hooked (addicted) to mobile
    devices/ social media. (check the links I sent to you together with the reading materials)

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