Before reading. 1. Family:walk around the class and talk to other students about family

WARM-UPS

1. FAMILY: Walk around the class and talk to other students about family. Change partners often. After you finish, sit with your partner(s) and share your findings.

2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words from the article are most interesting and which are most boring.

anti-social / communication technology / keeping in contact / SMS / envelopes / positive effects / family communication / connectedness / wives staying at home

Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently.

3. CONNECTED?: Are you connected? Are you in regular contact with people? Complete the table below. Share what you wrote with your partner(s).

Who?	How often?	How?	Why?
Best friend
Parents
Siblings
Partner
Teacher
Anyone else ____

4. TECHNOLOGY: Students A strongly believe communication technology will bring peace to the world; Students B strongly believe communication technology will make us all strangers and we’ll end up fighting. Change partners again and talk about your roles and conversations.

5. COULDN’T DO WITHOUT IT: Which of these things are most important to you? Rank them in order. Talk about your rankings with your partner(s).

_____ envelopes and stamps _____ fax _____ SMS _____ chat

_____ mobile phone _____ e-mail _____ telephone answering machine _____ web cam

6. SMS: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the abbreviation ‘SMS’. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories.

1. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F):

a.	Communication technology is reuniting people separated at birth.	T / F
b.	Family members are in more regular contact today than ever before.	T / F
c.	You often needed a stamp to keep in contact years ago.	T / F
d.	Many of our parents’ parents now keep up with technology.	T / F
e.	Technology has had a very negative effect on family communication.	T / F
f.	2% of a survey said technology worsened family communication.	T / F
g.	Families are building network connections inside their homes.	T / F
h.	A researcher said families only used to communicate in the evenings.	T / F

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:

1.	much	a.	quickly
	according to	b.	writer
3.	down to	c.	inside
4.	in an instant	d.	almost identical
5.	savvy	e.	as stated by
6.	within	f.	linking
7.	decreased	g.	a lot
8.	similar	h.	know-how
9.	connectedness	i.	lowered
10.	author	j.	because of

3. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one. combination is possible):

1.	technology is bringing people	a.	sense
	keeping in	b.	being built
3.	It makes	c.	instant
4.	sent in an	d.	the Pew survey
5.	Everyone’s at	e.	families
6.	According to	f.	closer together
7.	communication within	g.	they ever connect
8.	family members they	h.	it
9.	There's a new kind of connectedness	i.	regular contact
10.	not until 5:30, 6 o'clock did	j.	did not live with

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