Spending time online - Hello! Beyond Words Term 2 - أول اعدادي

UNIT 10 The online generation Unit objectives Reading: Blog posts about screen time; an article about Al; a short story about girls with a disability Writing: A reflective journal about digital habits; Using adjectives to make writing more interesting; Using visual input as a prompt for writing Listening: Instructions for evaluating pros and cons Speaking: Talking about pros and cons Language: Using the zero and first conditionals, including common mistakes 1 Spending time online Lesson objectives: Think! How much time do you spend online every day? What do you do online? Do you ever choose time online over seeing friends or doing an activity? • Learn vocabulary for talking about time online, including social media platforms, screen time, and gaming • Read and understand two blog posts about time spent online and how it can affect us Find synonyms and antonyms in two texts Look at the pictures. Read and listen to the words. private (have) an account (look at) a screen Photos 12:34 PG Find Friends Search Requests Contacts Settings ather send friend requests (change) settings 2 Complete the sentences with the words from Exercise 1. 1 If something is 2 My cousin asked if I 3 My mom says I shouldn't. 4 Let's Reem a upload video you make sure no one else can see it. 5 Can you help me? I'm trying to . post! 44 6 I think you need to the at my a to upload photos of our holiday. for more than an hour at a time. She always posts interesting things! of our basketball win. It won't then it will post.

3 Read and listen to the blog posts. Who do you think wrote each one? Research shows that some teenagers spend a massive 8.5 hours looking at a screen every day. This huge amount of time doesn't even include the time teenagers look at screens when they do their homework. About 95% of teenagers have cell phones, but this was a tiny 23% in 2011. My teenage children have their own cell phones with their own accounts. I get a message every time they want to download an app or buy something from a game. I click and then they can do it. I notice that my children often find it difficult to put their phones down and do something else. I always ask them if they want to come for a walk with me in the afternoon-without th t their phones-so they can do something else instead. Looking at photos of other people's best moments can make teenagers feel like their normal lives are boring too. My dad thinks I spend too much time gaming. He changed the settings on my laptop so that it turns itself off after one hour. I understand that gaming can be bad for you if you can't stop doing it, but that's not what I'm like. I still enjoy going out and playing sports with my friends and I'm not even on social media. Some of my friends spend, all their time on social media. They think it's great. Their accounts aren't HOME | ABOUT | DOWNLOAD HOME | ABOUT | DOWNLOAD private and they're always, sending friend, requests to people they don't know. That's dangerous because these people could be adults and not teenagers at all. There are also teenagers I know who spend so much time making and uploading videos where they just look at the camera and make funny faces. I think that's terrible and much worse than playing games where you learn how to do things." ④ Read the blog posts again and answer the questions. 1 What two things does the first writer do to help his children? 2 What problem does the first writer think that using social media can cause for teenagers? 3 How are the second writer's opinion about gaming and his dad's opinion about it different? 4 Why does the writer think that what he does is better than what some of his friends do? ⑤ Read the Reading skills box. Write a synonym and an antonym for the adjectives big and bad. 6 List three things you do when you look at a screen. Write an adjective to describe each thing. Think of a synonym and an antonym for each adjective. ⑦Work in pairs. Use your words from Finding synonyms and antonyms in different texts Synonyms are words that have the same meaning as or a similar meaning to another word. Antonyms are words that have a different or opposite meaning to another word. When you find synonyms (e.g. big and large) and antonyms (e.g. big and small) in texts, you can practice remembering the words' meanings and make links between words. Exercise 6 to write sentences about the things you do when you look at a screen. Then read the sentences aloud to your partner. Your partner says an antonym of the adjective you used. UNIT 10 45