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Making Friends Online: Truth or Myth?: Activity 1
Making Friends Online: Truth or Myth?: Activity 1
ACTIVITY 1
Read the text below and write an article (350 words) to be posted on the UNICEF website:
1) Argue against the position of the article. Claim that you can actually make friends online.
2) Exemplify your position by ‘confessing’ that you met the love of your life online.
The social media has become the outstanding feature of the current century.
Chat rooms, video blogs, social networks and diaries. This is where people
meet, date, breakup, talk, make friends and share significant details about
their lives. Many become victims of online scams and fraud, while the others
like pretending to be someone else.
We get lost in the countless friend requests and messages, sharing our
deepest thoughts and desires with strangers who might have even been Do you want to
friends in the past. Sadly, most of them aren’t as ideal as they describe. make a difference
Most people use social networks to hide their insecurities. They make up in the world?
profiles that do not coincide with the reality just to impress a potential new BECOME A UN
friend. As a result, they get disappointed and even more scared to show VOLUNTEER
their true selves. It is very rare to meet anyone online who is totally honest TODAY
about themselves, even though we’ll never find out the truth.
Find out how now.
Every single one of us looks for something in others that we do not possess
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ourselves. We struggle to fill the lack of communication with pretentious options
online chats, but this does not always help. Actually, it often makes the
situation even worse, especially for those who live by the concept “the See which
more the merrier”. How can one person have 10,000 friends? Well, programmes are
obviously those are not real friends. Such accounts are another way to best for you!
boost self-esteem and feed one’s vanity.
Let us know what YOU think. We will post best opinion articles.
ATTENTION
• Write your answers in the notebook provided. Use a pen (not a pencil). • You have a total of 2 hours (120 minutes) to
• Do NOT write your name anywhere in the notebook or sign your script. complete this part of the exam.
ΚΠγ / English Language Exam 2019B
ACTIVITY 2
Read the text below and write an article (300 words) for your college newspaper in which you:
a) Present your readers with the social and personal benefits of foreign language learning.
b) Explain why foreign language learning is a precondition for young people who wish to continue their
studies and have a good career.
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