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2. Look at the news and see if your opinion is the same or different. 107 Give students time to read and find the answer to the question in the article. Ask questions to check understanding like: Is technology always bad? No, only when we use it too much and we don’t understand how it affects us. 3. Read the questions. Answer them and write another question to ask a partner. Ask students to work together to read the questions. Have them write a suitable answer for each question. Monitor and let students know when their word order is incorrect. Instruct to create a new question and ask it to their partners. Check as a class. Differentiated Instruction For this activity, if students are struggling with question writing, ask them to underline the question words. Tell them that that is the first word. You can remind students of question structure on the board: Question word + be/ modal/aux + subject + verb . 4. Underline the answers to the questions in the news. Monitor and offer help by telling students in which paragraph to find the answers if they are struggling. Ask students to compare their answers with another pairs, before eliciting answers from the whole class. Differentiated Instruction For this activity you can use the Choral Response to allow all students to respond when eliciting answers. 5. Do you think you use too much technology? Tell your group and give reasons. In this activity, students will use open expressions to exchange opinions about the content of news. Monitor and write new language that emerges on the board. Remind students that they can use the expressions in the Appendix to help them participate in the conversation. Elicit answers and summarize them on the board, or ask each group to create a Flow Chart to summarize their group’s opinions.
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1 Work in small groups.Look at the pictures.Do you think they are bad for you?
tablet
laptop
apps
cell phone
2 Look at the news and see if your opinion is the same or different. 107
Many people who used to work at the world’s biggest technology companies now work at The Center of Human Technology. In February, the Center started to post information about technology that they call Truth About Tech. It asks people to think more about the technology they use. According to experts who study children and technology, almost 80% of teenagers check their phones every hour. They also say that many people are addicted to their phones or apps, and keep on using them even when they know they are bad for them. Using technology too much can be terrible for your health and cause headaches, sore eyes, neck and back pain, and sleeping problems. Truth About Tech was started to help people understand how technology a ects them so they can make better decisions about using it.
3 Read the questions.Answer them and write another question to ask a partner.
a Who is the news about? b When did they post information? c What is their message? d How can technology be bad for you? e
4 Underline the answers to the questions in the news.
5 Do you think you use too much technology? Tell your group and give reasons.
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Achievement Exchange opinions about the news. Teaching Guidelines • Offer examples of open expressions used to exchange opinions. • Exchange opinions about the content of news. Development What do you think about the news? Write on the board: What do you think about the news? Ask students to share ideas in pairs. Regroup pairs so that they form groups of four and share their ideas again. 1. Work in small groups. Look at the pictures. Do you think they are bad for you? Ask students to work in pairs and look at the pictures. Encourage students to give reasons for their answer by asking questions like: Why do you think that? Can you give me an example? Monitor and if students ask for language, write it on the board and encourage them to repeat it after you. Have them discuss if these devices or gadgets are good or not, what advantages they found on their use.
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