SOCIAL NETWORKS
1- Look at the pictures below. What aspects of social networks do they illustrate?
2- Discuss the questions
A. What’s in your opinion the best social networking site?
B. What are the positive aspects of social networks? And the negatives?
C. What is your opinion about country’s leaders being part of social networking sites?
D. Should children be allowed to use social networking sites? Why? Why not?
E. Are social networking sites changing our daily behavior?
F. Do you feel worried about your personal information being used by others?
3- Watch the video up to 2:45.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HffWFd_6bJ0
A. How are social networks changing our brains? (the answer is along the whole video)
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B. How dangerous do you think is having a technological addiction?
C. Why do you think that a person considered multi-tasking is not so efficient at the end?
D. Has it ever happened to you that you felt your phone vibrating but it was not?
E. What is your opinion about sharing your life online? What do you think of people who do so?
F. How positive in your opinion is to meet someone online?
G. What characteristic caught your attention the most? Why?
H. Which change do you think affect our lives the most?
I. Do you agree with the video? Did you learn anything new?
4- INTERNET: How good is it? Complete this table.
For… How good? How to improve it?
keeping in touch
shopping
News
travel info
studying English
5- Listen to the following: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1202/120225-social_media.html
-Before listening…
TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F).
a. A new report says women are more reluctant to join social media sites. T/F
b. Facebook is experiencing opposite fortunes to MySpace. T/F
c. Eleven per cent of those questioned said they use Twitter. T/F
d. It is more probable for a man to delete friends on social media sites. T/F
e. Men are more likely to have posted something they now regret. T/F
f. The report says women share information more freely than men. T/F
g. The report says men use more privacy settings than women. T/F
SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.
1. Report a. increase
2. Surveyed b. removed
3. Rise c. Fall
4. Decline d. handle
5. Attract e. questioned
6. Manage f. information
7. Deleted g. Woo
8. Regret h. Study
9. Likely i. feel sorry about
10. Data j. probable
- After listening…
A new report on the Internet and how we use it says that more of us are (1) ____ social media. The Pew Research Centre's
Internet and American Life Project surveyed 2,277 U.S. adults about their Internet (2) ____. About two-thirds of Internet
users now belong (3) ____ social networking sites. Pew reports that ninety-three per cent of social network users have
joined Facebook, up from 73 per cent in 2009. The continued (4) ____ in Facebook’s popularity contrasts with the decline of
MySpace. Twenty-three per cent of (5) ____ questioned said they had a MySpace profile, down from 48 per cent in 2009.
Twitter continues to attract more users, with 11 per cent of respondents saying they use it, (6) ____ from 6 per cent in
2009.
The report showed big differences between how men and women use social media and how we manage our (7) ____.
Women are more (8) ____ than men to delete friends. Sixty-seven per cent of women said they have deleted friends
compared with 58 per cent of men. The study reported that men are almost twice as likely as women to (9) ____ posted
messages, photos or videos that they later (10) ____. Fifteen per cent of men said they have done this, compared with eight
per cent of women. The study also showed women to be more cautious who they share information with. Two-(11) ____ of
women use the highest privacy settings, sharing data only with friends. Less than half of the men did (12) ____.
Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
1. (a) using (b) Usage (c) Used (d) used to it
2. (a) using (b) Used (c) Use (d) users
3. (a) of (b) To (c) By (d) as
4. (a) rise (b) Rose (c) Riser (d) arisen
5. (a) them (b) They (c) those (d) these
6. (a) increase (b) Higher (c) rise (d) up
7. (a) private (b) Privacy (c) privates (d) privation
8. (a) likely (b) Liked (c) likelihood (d) likeable
9. (a) had (b) Have (c) having (d) has
10. (a) regress (b) Regale (c) regret (d) regale
11. (a) thirds (b) Third (c) thirdly (d) thrice
12. (a) then (b) All (c) to (d) so
• How important is it to have your profile in private?
• Do you think there are certain social medias which were for teenagers and are nowadays used by adults as
well?
• What do you think this report from 2012 was showing as regards the increase in the social media’s use?
• What about our present? How far do you think those numbers have gone?
6- Watch the video up to minute 2.
A. Are there things we miss when using our phones?
B. What do you think about future generations and their relation with technology?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRl8EIhrQjQ
• What do you believe to be true about the video?
• Do you think it is possible to stop with those situations?
• Do you share the opinion that when using technology and having lots of friends we are actually alone?
• In which circumstances being “connected” would not mean being “alone”?
