08

COMMUNICATION VIDEO
8C SPEAKING
1 In pairs, ask and answer the questions.
1 How long have you had your phone?
2 Was it a present or did you buy it?
3 Where did you (or they) get it? In a shop or online?
4 Do you need to buy a new phone? Which model
would you like to get?

2 In pairs, describe the photo. Use the Speaking box on

page 99 and the prompts below to help you. Do you
think the man will buy the phone?

ask for help confused customer explain impatient

sale (shop) assistant

3 30 3.14 Read and watch or listen to the

conversation and check your answer in Exercise 2. SPEAKING | Explanations
Customer I wonder if you can help me. I need to get Asking for explanations
a new phone. I’d like to buy a smartphone.
I’m sorry, I’m not sure I understand.
Assistant What kind of phone are you looking for?
4G? 5G? I don’t know what you mean/that means.
Customer I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understand. Can you What is that (exactly)?
explain what the difference is? What does HD stand for?
Assistant 5G means ‘fifth generation’. Can you explain …?
Customer Oh, right. Well, 5G then, I suppose. Could you tell me what that is/does/means?
Assistant What kind of OS do you want? What do you mean (by …)?
Customer I'm sorry. I don't know what you mean.
Giving explanations
Assistant What kind of operating system?
It’s a/the kind/type/sort of …
Customer Oh, operating system! This one, I suppose.
It means …
Assistant OK, this one's got a five-and-a-half inch HD
screen … It stands for High Definition.
Customer Sorry, what does HD stand for again? It helps you to/lets you …
Assistant HD? It stands for High Definition. It's got
a resolution of twenty-five sixty by ... 6 3.15 Complete the conversation below with
Customer It looks wonderful. Has it got a camera? the words from the box. Will the man buy the other
Assistant Yes, of course. It's got a dual lens camera. phone? Listen and check.
Customer Dual lens? What's that exactly? Could you tell by explain for kind lets mean stands sure
me what it does?
Assistant It's a kind of camera that lets you take 3D Assistant This one’s dual SIM.
photos. Customer I’m sorry. I don’t know what you 1mean.
Customer Brilliant! I love it. How much is it? Assistant It has two SIM cards.
Assistant £719. Customer What does that stand 2 for ?
Assistant It 3 stands for Subscriber Identity Module.
4 30 3.14 Watch or listen to the conversation
Customer Can you 4 explain what that is?
again and decide if statements 1–4 are true or false.
Say why. Assistant Yes, it’s a 5 kind of smart card inside the
phone that identifies you and stores your
1 F The customer knows exactly which phone he wants
personal data.
to buy.
2 □
T The shop assistant explains what 5G means.
Customer I see.

3 □
F The customer knows quite a lot about
Assistant This phone comes with a turbocharger, too.
Customer I’m not 6 sure I understand. What do you
smartphones.
4 □
T He likes the phone but not its price.
mean 7 by turbocharger?
Assistant A turbocharger 8 lets you charge the battery
5 Study the Speaking box and find the expressions in the on your phone quicker.
conversation in Exercise 3.
7 In pairs, practise the conversations in Exercises 3 and 6.

8 Work in pairs. Student A , go to page 189. Student B, go

to page 191.

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REFERENCES EXTRA ACTIVITY IN CLASS FURTHER PRACTICE

AUDIO SCRIPT page 218 After Exercise 8, refer students to the Workbook page 91/Online Practice
VIDEO/AUDIO SCRIPT page 232 photos they have brought in and put
them in new pairs. They role play a NEXT CLASS
conversation, taking turns to be a shop Ask students to think about the
assistant and a customer shopping for advantages and disadvantages of social
the object in their photo. media and make notes.

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THE UPS AND DOWNS

OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Social networking The rules are simple. If someone
challenges you, you have twenty-four
websites have hours to record a video in which you (or
some friends) throw a bucket of ice-cold
changed the 15 water on your head. If you do it, you
have to pay some money, e.g. $10. If you
way people don’t, you have to pay more, e.g. $100.
Afterwards, you nominate at least three
communicate, other people to carry out the challenge.

but like most 20 It’s not clear exactly where the challenge
started, but it went viral in the summer

things in life they of 2014. All around the world people were
posting about it on social media websites

have their ups and uploading videos. The videos were

25 short and fun to watch. By August 2014

and their downs.
GETTING WET FOR
A GOOD CAUSE
Would you like to throw a bucket of ice-
cold water on your head? Probably not.
5 But if you accept the Ice Bucket Challenge,
35 over $100 million in just one month. And
that’s what you do. Not for fun, but to
help find a cure for motor neurone disease
(MND)*, an illness that destroys the
neurones that control muscle movement
10 and is usually deadly in 2–4 years.
there were 2.4 million Ice Bucket videos
just on Facebook.
Celebrities like basketball star LeBron
James, singer Lady Gaga and Facebook
30 boss Mark Zuckerberg joined in. President
Obama didn’t accept the challenge but he
did donate $100.
The challenge was a huge success. One
MND organisation in the US received
it hasn’t finished. Campaigners have
promised to keep repeating the challenge
until there’s a cure for MND.
* Also called ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)

FOMO – A MODERN ANXIETY 20

People who have FOMO feel they need to check their social
media sites all the time. They have a real fear that they will
How often do you check your phone every day? Twenty, fifty, miss something new, interesting or important. Perhaps
eighty times? Surveys have shown that the average person a friend has met a new boyfriend, a celebrity has talked about
5 checks their phone about seventy times a day. And you might his new film or there’s a funny video about a new dance craze
not believe it but some people spend up to nine hours a day 25 trending
trending? The problem is that on social media there is always
using social media or online video or music. something new, so this person needs to
check again and again. A habit has turned into an obsession.
We all want to post comments, follow celebrities and know
what’s going on with our friends. Social media can make Do you know someone who starts and finishes
10 our lives full and exciting. However, research also shows a their day with social media
worrying trend. Some people can’t stop checking their social get irritated easily and dissatisfied with their
media sites. They do it all the time – sometimes hundreds 30 lives? Do they get
of times a day. Lots of us know that we look at our phones anxious if they
too often and try to control it. But when you really can’t stop can’t check their
15 checking, it’s a problem. It distracts us from other things and phone? Then this
it can make us stressed. Scientists have given this problem 35 person probably
a name. It’s called FOMO. This stands for Fear Of Missing has FOMO. And
Out! Three children in every classroom today may have this they might need
problem. help.

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REFERENCES EXTRA ACTIVITY IN CLASS FURTHER PRACTICE

VIDEO SCRIPT page 232 Using the notes they made at home, • Workbook pages 92–93/Online Practice
CULTURE NOTES page 205 students discuss the advantages and • Photocopiable resource 34: Astronomy:
disadvantages of using social media. it’s a fact!, pages 272, 309
This can be done at different points in
the lesson: before Exercise 1 as a lead-in,
after Exercise 9 or after Exercise 10.
Students can discuss in pairs, groups or
as a whole class.
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1 In groups, say which social media sites you use and 7 Use the highlighted words for social media from the Exercise 5
what you use them for. article to complete the statements below. Then in 2 record a video
pairs, say if the statements are true for you. 3 at least three
2 Read the article. Which text shows how social media 1 I would like to make a video that goes viral but it isn’t 4 celebrities
can play a positive role and which shows how it can as easy as it seems. 5 accept the challenge
have a negative side? The first text shows how social media can
play a positive role and the second text shows how it can be negative. 2 Lots of people me on Instagram.
Exercise 6
3 Look at these sentences from the first part the article. 3 I always know what’s on Twitter.
2 celebrities
Which one is a fact and which an opinion? Study Active 4 My friend often turns up late for class because she 3 when you really can’t stop
Reading and check your answer. checks her phone for social media ________ at break 4 three
1 The rules are simple. opinion time. 5 because they have a
5 Facebook is my favourite social networking ______. fear that they will miss
2 You have twenty-four hours to record a video. fact something interesting
8 Find these phrasal verbs in the article. Then use their 6 when they can’t check
their phone
ACTIVE READING | Telling facts from opinions correct forms to complete the sentences below.

• A fact is something that you can check and prove to be true. carry out go on join in miss out stand for turn into Exercise 7
• Facts often include numbers, but not every statement 2 follow
1 What do the letters UK stand for? 3 trending
with a number is a fact.
2 My sister always wants to know the latest gossip 4 updates
• An opinion is what someone believes or feels about because she doesn’t want to ! 5 sites
something. You can agree with it or not.
3 We’re an experiment into social media.
• To give opinions, we often use adjectives like great, 4 I don’t know what’s . I’m confused. Could you Exercise 8
terrible, simple, etc., adverbs like probably and possibly, help me, please? 2 miss out
and verbs like feel, think, seem, etc. 3 carrying out
5 It started as a discussion but quickly a big 4 going on
argument.
4 Decide if these sentences are facts or opinions. Use
6 Our class started a project and then all the other
5 turned into
6 joined in
Active Reading to help you. Then find more facts and
opinions in the article. classes .
1 MND is an illness that usually kills you in 2–4 years. 9 SPEAKING Do you think FOMO is a serious problem?
fact Discuss in groups. Use the prompts below to help you.
2 It’s not clear exactly where the challenge started. opinion
easy/difficult to stop normal for people today
3 The videos were short and fun to watch. opinion
people you know sign of the times will get worse
4 By August 2014 there were 2.4 million Ice Bucket
videos on Facebook. fact
5 The average person checks their phone about seventy
10 REFLECT | Society Do you know any other cases where
social media played a positive social role, e.g. through
times a day. fact
crowd funding for a good cause? Discuss in pairs.
5 Read the first part of the article again and complete
the notes with 1–3 words in each gap. 31 WATCH AND REFLECT Go to page 169. Watch the
1 Motor neurone disease makes a person’s muscles documentary Gadgets for the classroom and do the
difficult to control. exercises.
2 The rules of the Ice Bucket Challenge say that you have
DOCUMENTARY VIDEO

to record a video of yourself throwing a bucket of cold

water on your head.
3 You should choose at least three other people that
have to do it too.
4 Sports stars, famous singers and other celebrities
also took part in the challenge. accept the
5 President Obama chose not to challenge but gave
$100 to the charity instead.

6 Read the second part of the article again and answer

the questions.
1 How many hours a day can certain users spend on
social sites? up to nine hours a day
2 Who do many people want to follow on social media?
3 When can phone checking become a problem?
4 How many children in an average class might suffer
from FOMO?
5 Why do people with FOMO check their phones so
often?
6 When do people with FOMO get anxious?

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