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Lesson 3
So close, yet so far
Relationships
Unit 1
Pre-reading: Activate and share
Cellphones Are Everywhere!
P14 1
What roles do social networking and the Internet play in your daily life?
What do you use them for?
chat with friends
listen to music
search for information
study
…
watch
videos
How many online friends do you have?
Do social networking and the Internet help improve your relationships with others? Give some examples.
P14 2
Possible answer: I have more than 300 online friends. I think that social networking and the Internet help improve my relationships with my friends. For example, one of my best friends went abroad when I was in junior secondary school. The only way that I can contact her is the Internet. I always chat with her and we talk about our lives with each other.
Mark has 500 friends online and he spends a lot of time on the Internet.
Predict what Mark will say about social networking and his relationships with others.
Now, let's read the text to
check your answers.
P16 4
Read the text. Complete the information about Mark. Then use examples to talk about how social networking has affected Mark's life.
Mark's routine
activities online What social networking has done to Mark and Mark's friends Reasons Mark can't drop social networking
routines
check through his social networking apps
read his emails and answer text messages
scroll through his friends’ posts and photos
download song after song, video after video
Mark's routine activities online
Careful reading
What social networking has done to Mark and Mark’s friends. Read and find the impacts.
Impact
Social networking dominates my life in so many ways
I constantly feel depressed, dissatisfied and alone
whether on friends’ get-together or a family holiday, we are together physically but not mentally
reasons
a dinner get-together: my best friend took a call for 30 minutes; Some kept texting friends online.
his classmates and teachers may need to contact him