Work with a partner. Check if you are a responsible mobile user.

Student A: 1. Do you switch off your mobile or turn it to vibrate when you are at the lesson, at the cinema or at the theatre?

Student B: (give your answer and reasons)

Student A: 2. Do you shout while you are speaking?

Student B: _________________

Student A: 3. Can you talk as much as you want if you are talking to your friends?

Student B: ___________________

Student A: 4. Do you use your phone while walking?

Student B: _____________

 

Now swap the roles.

Student B: 5. Can you use your mobile to phone your friends any time, anywhere?

Student A: (give your answer and reasons)

Student B: 6. Do you always pay attention to where you are going because you are talking on a mobile phone?

Student A: ________

Student B: 7. Do you keep your phone ringer as low as possible, so it does not distract the people around you?

Student A: _______

Student B: 8. Would you rather text your friends than actually speak to them in person?

Student A: _______

Now summarize what your partner said using reported speech.

e.g. Pavel said that he always switched off his mobile ….

Watch the Video “Walking While Texting”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm2lfv3_ELc 

What solution is offered to prevent “texters” from bumping into other people?

Do you think this measure will work in your city?

Useful notes:

In a hustle and bustle- в давке и сутолоке

to be aware of smth – отдавать отчёт , сознавать

shrink – сокращаться , сжиматься

Guess the answers.

1 In a hustle and bustle of the street you need to be ______your  surrounding.
a. beware of

b. unaware of
c. aware of
d. adware of

2. You were on your phone? That`s a ______________________!
a. dangerously devices
b. dangerous devices
c. dangerous device
d. undangerous device

3. It`s amazing, how many people on their cell-phones____________________ there is a gorilla.
a. having even noticed
b. haven`t even noticed

c. have never noticed

d. haven`t ever noticed

4. I was looking at what my _________________________was.

a. next point

b. next pointer

c. next appointment

d. next appointee

5. Studies have shown that even just talking on your cell phone can reduce your _________________________ .

a. peripheral fission

b. peripheral fusion

c. periphery vision

d. peripheral vision

6. When you`re texting, it can shrink to less than ______ of the normal range.

a. on tenth

b. one tenth

c. one ten

d. won tenth

7. We can get talkers _______________out of everybody else`s way.
a. and taxis

b. and texters
c. end texters
d. end taxi

8. We put arrows onto the ground onto the ___________________.

a. sale phone lane
b. cell phone`s lane
c. cell phone lane

d. cell phone line

Work in pairs. Decide when it is not a good idea to talk on a mobile phone or to text and why. Complete this table with your partner and speak on that.

For giving your opinion use the following phrases:

In my opinion,…..     From my point of view…..        I strongly believe that…… I`m more than sure that…. I think it`s wrong to….

	OK?	Why?
While crossing a road
On the street
In a shopping mall
On a train
In a restaurant
In a movie/theatre

Ask your partner(s) questions by choosing a question starter in the first column with a word or phrase in the second column.

Have you ever… What do you think of… Do you… What kind of… Have you heard of… When was the last time… Could you live without… Would you like…

mobile phone Skype e-mails spam phishing the Internet future a higher speed Internet connection videophone telephone answering machine voicemail

Have you ever made telephone calls in English? When? What for?

Fill in the gaps with one word to complete the verb phrases.

__________________	in touch with somebody
contact	somebody
__________________	somebody
phone	somebody
___________________	on the phone to somebody
put	someone through to somebody
___________________	through to somebody
hang	up on somebody
___________________	somebody back

Complete these sentences with the verb phrases from exercise 47.

1. Hello. Mr Johnson is expecting your call. I’ll just_________ (you) __________.

2. I called my friend, but she ____________________to someone.

3. I tried to __________________ to her on the telephone, but I failed.

4. After two years of silence he suddenly __________________ with us again.

5. It was strange but the girl didn`t_________________ and they got chatting.

6. She's having lunch. Can you ______________ later?

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