Unit 3 Steps to Effective Communication Audio Sepisnamersim GZA Da Niuadin Listen to 6 people talking and match what they say with the statements in your workbook.0:00
There is one statement you don't have to use.0:11
Speaker 1 Today's teens cannot live without communication technologies.0:15
The number of teenagers using the Internet is growing around the world.0:20
A recent research showed some surprising results.0:24
Teens are much brighter with computers than adults and use the Internet more often and for more varied reasons.0:28
They use it to communicate with friends, to make new friends, to play games, download music, get news, do the shopping, research homework, and ask health questions.0:35
Speaker 2 Email is losing its privileged place among teens.0:48
It's only used to communicate with adults such as teachers.0:52
Young people prefer instant messaging and text messaging as ways to connect with their friends.0:56
The advantages of instant messaging are when you send someone an email, you don't know when you will get a reply.1:03
Your friend might not check his or her messages or might not use that email address anymore with im.1:10
However, a program on your computer tells you when a friend is online, you you can then send a message to your friend, who can type a Reply instantly online.1:17
Speaker 3 the new technology popular with teens is podcasting.1:28
The term podcast is a blend of the words I pod, a portable meter player, and broadcast.1:34
But not only teenagers are crazy about podcasting.1:41
Some grandmothers like it too.1:45
According to newspaper reports, Queen Elizabeth II has taken up this latest way of listening to music.1:48
She is the proud owner of an ipod, which can hold up to 100,000 songs.1:55
Speaker 4 According to statistics, in the USA, young people spend five times more time online than in Europe.2:02
Their most popular site is Facebook, a place where everybody knows everything about everybody else.2:11
It has more than 1.3 billion members.2:18
Facebook offers an adult, free world where teens can do and say what they want.2:21
They publish personal details, post photos, and share their news and ideas.2:27
Facebook was not created for teenagers.2:32
Former Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg started the site in 2004 as an online university directory.2:35
It quickly turned into a social network for colleagues and then involved high school students.2:43
Speaker 5 It's not just computers teenagers are hooked on.2:50
They also cannot live without their mobile phones.2:54
Mobile phones are used as a tool of text messaging, as alarm clocks, calculators to send photos, play games, and to help with exam revision.2:58
Some teens even use them to cheat on tests.3:07
They no wonder mobile phones are not allowed in many schools and universities.3:10
Speaker 6 It's interesting that computer language is quickly finding its way into spoken English.3:15
Here are some before the mobile phone revolution.3:21
The word text was used only as a noun.3:24
Now it is also used as a verb.3:27
We text each other every day.3:29
The word Google denoting a popular Internet web search engine is now used as a verb too.3:32
I'm googling my other sock.3:38
SMS abbreviations LOL laughing out loud or ROFL rolling on the floor laughing are now used in everyday speech.3:40
A person who speaks a lot of time using a computer is called a mouse potato.3:51
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