SESSION 30: EXERCISES FOR DISCUSSION AND FINAL TASK
2.
EXERCISES FOR DISCUSSION:
2.1 THE INTERNET: How good is the Internet for the following things? How could we improve it?
- keeping in touch
- shopping
- news
- gaming
- travel information
- studying English
2.1 SITES: Rank the following sites, put the best at the top:
- BBC News
- Amazon.com
- You Tube
- Twenti
2.3 DISCUSSION:
HERE ARE SOME QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS WHICH YOU CAN THINK ABOUT AND TRY ASKING
YOURSELF BEFORE YOU COME TO OUR DISCUSSION ON WEDNESDAY:
| a) | What springs to mind when you hear the term ‘social media’? |
| b) | How do you use the social media? Since when do you use them? |
| c) | How did you communicate before social media came along? Do you miss the way in which you communicated before? |
| d) | Which is better, Facebook or Twitter? |
| e) | What would life be like without the Internet? |
| f) | Why has Facebook become so popular? |
| g) | Do you think it´s useful communicating with your friends via the Internet? |
| h) | What do you think of the name “social networking”? |
| i) | How will social networking develop in the future? |
| j) | Do you think we have lost in feelings with this new type of communication? |
| k) | Why are there differences between the way men and women use the Internet? Do you think it has to do with their inner differences? |
| l) | What concerns do you have about your privacy online? |
| m) | What would you do if your online identity was stolen? |
| n) | Have you ever deleted friends online? Why? |
| o) | Have you ever posted anything online you later regretted? What? |
| p) | In what ways are you cautious online? |
| q) | Do you think everyone should use the highest privacy settings? |
| r) | Are women generally more cautious than men? |
| s) | Children also use the Social Media, so you think they are as cautious about their privacy as adults are? |
PREPARING
A DISCUSSION IS FUNDAMENTAL:
THIS MUST BE
DONE IN TWO DIRECTIONS:
FIRST, YOU NEED TO LEARN NEW VOCABULARY AND
EXPRESSIONS THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO USE FOR THE DISCUSSION.
SECONDLY, YOU HAVE TO PREPARE THE TOPIC BY
LOOKING UP INFORMATION IN THE INTERNET, BOOKS, ENCYCLOPAEDIAS.
THIS WAY YOU
WILL FEEL MUCH MORE CONFIDENT AND AT THE SAME TIME YOU WILL HAVE MUCH MORE TO
TALK ABOUT IN THE ORAL SESSION.
FINAL
TASK:
HERE IS ONE FINAL TASK THAT YOU
MAY DO IN ORDER TO COVER THE FOUR SKILLS YOU SHOULD FOCUS ON WHEN LEARNING A
LANGUAGE: LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING AND
WRITING.
Write a composition and leave it in the blog as a comment to Session 30, I will edit it in the blog so that everybody can learn from other people´s opinions. Choose one of these two options:
- 'Social media have changed our way of communicating' Express your opinion
- Pros and Cons of using Facebook
This world runs, and while it is running, it’s alive. And it runs each time quicker, now we are talking about new technologies and social media but maybe we can forget all about them in just a few months.
ReplyDeleteDo you remember Messenger or SMS? Just a few years ago it was one of the most important ways of social communication, now Facebook and Whatsapp seem to be the leader but how long? Internet Explorer was the first, followed by Mozilla and now Google Chrome, what will be the next? TV’s, cameras, mobile phones, etc. change every minute.
Consumerism and globalization are teaching us to constantly run and change but this can be very dangerous, as a Spanish proverb says, who much run, stop very soon.
Talking more strictly about the topic, I totally agree with the writing, women and men are different in behaviour in normal life, so it is logic that the way they behave using internet and social media was different too.