Part 1: You will hear a short extract about Phone addiction.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS

(AND/OR A NUMBER).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUMa0QkPzns

 The phone is designed to keep people involved and purposely addicting. But you can have a
__________________ with it after understanding the tricks behind it.
 According to a Google’s _________________ namely Tristan Harris, people are living in Truman
Shows, where you don’t recognize that everything is _________________ only to engage you.
 Firstly, notifications, apart from the situation in which someone is trying to contact you, need to
be turned off. Nowadays, many apps make users to spend more time on their platform by
promoting the feeling of ______________________. For example, the push notifications in
Facebook acting like a _______________, increasing your desire of more connections.
 Some even create the “________________” feature by imitating the process of pulling a lot
machine lever which provides an ______________________ of control.
 Because human’ eyes are particularly sensitive to the warmer, bolder and brighter colors, apps
are usually redesigned in order to grab attention. Yet, you can ______________ this effect by
choosing a __________________ in your phone’s settings.
 Lastly, your home screen does not include anything apart from the _____________________
that support your life like Maps or Calendar.

KEY

1. HEALTHIER RELATIONSHIP
2. DESIGN ETHICIST: people who study of what is morally right and wrong, or a set
of beliefs about what is morally right and wrong in design
3. COORDINATED or COORDINATING
4. SOCIAL INTERACTION
5. PUPPET MASTER: good at controlling the actions of somebody
6. PULL TO REFRESH
7. ADDICTING ILLUSION
8. NEUTRALIZE: balance
9. GREYSCALE COLOR FILTER
10. EVERYDAY/ IN-THE-MOMENT TOOLS