Homework

Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.

LANGUAGE

(1) ____ has been said about how anti-social the Internet and mobile phones are. The (2) ____ is however, according to new research, communication technology is bringing people closer together. A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found family members were keeping in (3) ____ contact today more than ever before. And this is all down to e-mail, chat, our cellphones and SMS messaging. It makes (4) ____. Years ago, it took a long time to write a letter, then find an envelope and go to the post office to buy a stamp and post it. Today we write mails while we wait for our (5) ____ in the convenience store and they’re sent in an instant. Having free Internet telephone calls also helps us to stay in touch more often and for longer. Everyone’s at (6) ____, from five-year-olds to tech-savvy grandparents.

According to the Pew survey, technology has a very positive (7) ____ on communication within families. Researchers asked 2,252 adults whether new technologies had (8) ____ the quality of communication with their family. Fifty-three percent said it increased communication with family members they did not live with, two per cent said technology decreased this. Numbers were similar for (9) ____ living in the same house as their family. The project director Lee Rainey said: "There's a new kind of connectedness being (10) ____ inside of families with these technologies”. Survey co-author Barry Wellman agreed: "It used to (11) ____ [that] husbands went off to work, wives went off to a different job or else stayed home…and the kids went off to school…and not (12) ____ 5:30, 6 o'clock did they ever connect," he said.

1.	(a)	Most	(b)	Many	(c)	Lot	(d)	Much
2.	(a)	true	(b)	truth	(c)	truly	(d)	truthful
3.	(a)	regular	(b)	regularly	(c)	regulation	(d)	regulations
4.	(a)	sensation	(b)	senses	(c)	sense	(d)	senseless
5.	(a)	changed	(b)	changing	(c)	change	(d)	changes
6.	(a)	them	(b)	it	(c)	that	(d)	these
7.	(a)	effect	(b)	affect	(c)	affection	(d)	ill effect
8.	(a)	increases	(b)	increasing	(c)	increase	(d)	increased
9.	(a)	them	(b)	those	(c)	ones	(d)	these
10.	(a)	building	(b)	builder	(c)	build	(d)	built
11.	(a)	been	(b)	being	(c)	be	(d)	was
12.	(a)	until	(b)	yet	(c)	since	(d)	as

WRITING:

Write about family contact for 10 minutes. Correct your partner’s paper.

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1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.

2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about the Pew report in this article. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson.

3. TECHNOLOGY: Make a poster about the types of communication technologies you use. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things?

4. CONNECTED: Write a magazine article about how connected people are nowadays. Include imaginary interviews with an ordinary person and the boss of a communication technology company.

Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s).

5. DIARY / JOURNAL: Write about the different times you communicate using technology in one day in your life. Read your entry to your classmates in the next lesson.

6. LETTER: Write a letter to Lee Rainey. Ask him three questions about his research. Give him three suggestions on what aspects of society he should study next. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions.

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