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The document discusses the impact of mobile phones on social interactions and personal arrangements. It includes prompts for speaking and reading activities that explore dependence on mobile devices and personal experiences related to phone usage. Questions encourage reflection on addiction to phones and the consequences of being without one.

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Technology

The document discusses the impact of mobile phones on social interactions and personal arrangements. It includes prompts for speaking and reading activities that explore dependence on mobile devices and personal experiences related to phone usage. Questions encourage reflection on addiction to phones and the consequences of being without one.

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José García Hernández
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Technology

Speaking, discuss in
pairs
◦ If you had made plans to meet
your friends one evening and
discovered that you had left your
phone at home, how might it affect
your evening?
Reading
Reading
◦ 1. Do the appropriate thing (line 3)

◦ 2. Preparing my PE kit (line 7)

◦ 3. With my long, speedy walk as justification (line 20)

◦ 4. But selling posh pies (lines 24-25)

◦ 5. The situation eventually becomes untenable (line 31)

◦ 6. Desperately eating the contents of the fridge (line 36)

◦ 7. Beyond the realms of plausibility (lines 40-41)

◦ 8. Not a firm arrangement, but a basis for negotiation (lines 46-47)


Speaking
◦ Do you agree that nowadays ´without a mobile phone you don´t exist?
◦ How dependent is your work or social life on having a mobile phone
or smartphone? Would your arrangements break down if you did not
have your phone?
◦ Do you consider yourself addicted to your phone? How often do you
check it for messages?
◦ Have you ever had to spend a day without your phone ? How did you
feel?

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