Answer the questions 1. What are gadgets? 2. What are they for? 3. Why do we need them? 4. What gadgets have you got? (a computer /notebook /a mobile phone). 5. How often do you use them? 6. Can you imagine how to do without them? 7. Can they help you to study different subjects and prepare your home assignment? Your homework was to read and translate texts about British teenagers’ attitude to social media. These texts are from the famous British newspaper – the Guardian. The texts are parts of the article – “ I worried that people would forget about me” can teenagers survive without social media? As you could understand there was an experiment when teens should switch off their phones. And they are describing their experience. In the texts you met a lot of new words. Please, look at the screen and match the words to their meaning willpower | sending written messages | conversation | Signal | texting | Angry | Focus on | Always | distract | Talking | notification | Concentrate | grumpy | what someone’s thinking about something | constantly | The reason for which something exists or is done, made, used,etc. | purpose | self-control. | opinion | interrupt | You were divided on the 5 groups. Now each group presented us about whom were you reading about and why that person use social media? Let’s summarize information that each group is presented. Try to say why social media so important and why teenagers use it? And what are the disadvantages there? Make up the table, using facts from the text (the class is divided into two groups, the first one – to find the advantages of using social media, the second one - to find the disadvantages of it) Lets put both arguments on the table. Social media helps us/ could be used for… | Social media has a bad influence for us because… | | | All right. When you read these articles, you find a lot of different phrasal verbs. Which phrasal verbs have mean «выключать»? OK, but there are other phrasal verbs. Give me examples. Translate them in the context. |