SESSION 30: EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

SESSION 30: EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

NOTE: IN ORDER TO WORK WITH THE TEXT, UNDERSTAND AND PREPARE IT BETTER I RECOMMEND THESE EXERCISES:

THERE WILL BE TWO TYPES OF EXERCISES:

1. EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT: THESE ARE EXERCISES FOCUSING ON THE READING COMPREHENSION, WORKING WITH VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIONS.

2. EXERCISES FOR DISCUSSION: EXERCISES FOCUSING ON THE PREPARATION FOR THE DISCUSSION.

1. EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

1.1 TRUE/FALSE: Look at the article and guess whether these sentences are True (T) or False (F):

a.	A new report says women are more reluctant to join social media sites.
b.	A research center questioned over 2,200 people about social media.
c.	Facebook is experiencing opposite fortunes to MySpace.
d.	Eleven per cent of those questioned said they use Twitter.
e.	It is more probable for a man to delete friends on social media sites.
f.	Men are more likely to have posted something they now regret.
g.	The report says women share information more freely than men.
h.	The report says men use more privacy settings than women.

1.2. 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

1.3 PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from this article (sometimes more than one option is possible):

1.	the Internet and how	a.	our privacy
2.	surveyed	b.	popularity
3.	up from 73	c.	attract more users
4.	The continued rise in Facebook’s	d.	to delete friends
5.	Twitter continues to	e.	2,277 U.S. adults
6.	how we manage	f.	settings
7.	Women are more likely than men to delete friends	g.	we use it
8.	men are almost twice	h.	regret
9.	videos that they later	i.	per cent in 2009
10.	the highest privacy	j.	as likely as women

1.4 GAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text:

USERS - USE - UP - BELONG - REPORT - ATTRACT - USING - CONTRASTS

A new (1) ____________ on the Internet and how we use it says that more of us are (2) ____________ social media. The Pew Research Centre's Internet and American Life Project surveyed 2,277 U.S. adults about their Internet (3) ____________. About two-thirds of Internet users now (4) ____________ to social networking sites. Pew reports that ninety-three per cent of social network (5) ____________ have joined Facebook, up from 73 per cent in 2009. The continued rise in Facebook’s popularity (6) ____________ with the decline of MySpace. Twenty-three per cent of those questioned said they had a MySpace profile, down from 48 per cent in 2009. Twitter continues to (7) ____________ more users, with 11 per cent of respondents saying they use it, (8) ____________ from 6 per cent in 2009. 

LIKELY - CAUTIOUS - DIFFERENCES - SO - REGRET - PRIVACY - DELETED - HIGHEST

The report showed big (9) ____________ between how men and women use social media and how we manage our (10) ____________. Women are more likely than men to delete friends. Sixty-seven per cent of women said they have (11) ____________ friends compared with 58 per cent of men. The study reported that men are almost twice as (12) ____________ as women to have posted messages, photos or videos that they later (13) ____________. 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 (14) ____________ who they share information with. Two-thirds of women use the (15) ____________ privacy settings, sharing data only with friends. Less than half of the men did (16) ____________.