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    The Digital World: Level 1 - Unit 2

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    The document discusses whether the digital world can replace the physical world. While online shopping and virtual learning are convenient, people still desire physical books, classrooms, and items. Amazon opened physical bookstores because seeing real books makes people want to buy them. Students in online universities may miss face-to-face discussions. Many words from the physical world like "graphic" and "paste" are used digitally but originated from physical acts. Physical items like records, board games, and print magazines are still popular despite digital alternatives. People do not feel the same ownership or appreciation for e-books as physical books. Overall, while digital has benefits, people still feel the need for something physical they can touch

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    The document discusses whether the digital world can replace the physical world. While online shopping and virtual learning are convenient, people still desire physical books, classrooms, and items. Amazon opened physical bookstores because seeing real books makes people want to buy them. Students in online universities may miss face-to-face discussions. Many words from the physical world like "graphic" and "paste" are used digitally but originated from physical acts. Physical items like records, board games, and print magazines are still popular despite digital alternatives. People do not feel the same ownership or appreciation for e-books as physical books. Overall, while digital has benefits, people still feel the need for something physical they can touch

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    The document discusses whether the digital world can replace the physical world. While online shopping and virtual learning are convenient, people still desire physical books, classrooms, and items. Amazon opened physical bookstores because seeing real books makes people want to buy them. Students in online universities may miss face-to-face discussions. Many words from the physical world like "graphic" and "paste" are used digitally but originated from physical acts. Physical items like records, board games, and print magazines are still popular despite digital alternatives. People do not feel the same ownership or appreciation for e-books as physical books. Overall, while digital has benefits, people still feel the need for something physical they can touch

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    THE DIGITAL WORLD

    LEVEL 1 • UNIT 2

    READING 1
    CAN THE DIGITAL WORLD EVER

    REPLACE THE PHYSICAL WORLD?


    SKILLS
    It was Amazon that started Internet shopping by
    moving book sales online. So why on earth did they
    - Details
    later open a physical bookstore? It seems they
    - Author’s purpose
    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 GETTING

    STARTED:
    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 students miss


    Do you usually buy items

    face-to-face discussions with each other? And isn't an


    online? Have they represented

    enthusiastic teacher better in a classroom than on a video?


    positive experiences?
    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 vinyl records or even CDs 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, 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.

    - Layou t: 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?

    What do you think?

    Do you think virtual learning can replace face-

    to-face education?

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