English lesson - Unit 8.1 Living environment and online activities

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Living environment

Today's learning objectives

Talk about your living environment

Learning about compound nouns

Talk about screentime

Talking about your living environment

Check out the questions in exercise 

9A and 9B on page 94. 

Make notes and be prepared to tell about 

your living environment/neighbourhood.

Tell us about your neighbourhood

• things you like, things you hate
• what would make your neighbourhood

- more beautiful

- safer

- more interesting

Vocabulary Plus

Compound nouns combine two related words, the 1st giving information about the 2nd. They can be written as one word, two words or with a hyphen (-). Examples: 

haircut, classmate, milkshake, workshop, sweatshirt

car park, washing machine, junk food, swimming pool

state-of-the-art, mother-in-law, merry-go-round

Do exercises 10A, 10B, 11A on p. 94 and

the bottom half of p. 155

More words ...

Do the vocabulary exercise 1A on page 95 and after that

the listening exercise 2A on page 95.

Online communities

Teens spend too much time looking at screens

Read the following text ....

Dutch teenagers think they are spending too much time on their phones, laptops and tablets and seven in 10 regret not spending more time outside, new research commissioned by the Volkskrant reveals. The survey, among 569 youngsters aged between 10 and 22, showed that they spent an average of three hours and 20 minutes a day looking at a screen outside school hours. Like their parents, the teens themselves think 2.5 hours would be a more responsible amount of time. Many teens also think that too much screen time is having a detrimental effect both on their physical and their mental well-being. Over half (57%) the teens thinks overuse leads to sleeping problems and 47% think it can lead to problems with their eyesight, a lack of concentration (45%), and shoulder and back problems (50%). Most of the teen respondents blame the light emanating from the screens.

Earlier research already pointed to the negative effects on sleep quality for children who use their phones until late at night. According to eye specialist professor Caroline Klaver the combination of long periods behind a screen and no time spent playing outside can lead to myopia or even blindness, the paper said. A separate survey, involving over 1,000 parents, showed they are not always as aware of the health risks as their children, with only 38% citing potential shoulders and back problems. They also underestimate the amount of time their children spend on their phones. Peter Kanne of I&O research, which conducted the survey, told the Volkskrant parents allow their children much leeway when it comes to screen use and that they think a child can navigate the internet without supervision from the age of 13. This also means parents do not have sufficient insight in the negative aspects of their children’s online activities, he said. Despite the criticism, teenagers are happy to have the devices, with almost half saying social media a welcome addition to their lives

Prepare the following questions (5 min):

• How much time, on average, do you spend on your phone, tablet, computer?
• Do you think it’s too much?
• In what way does it affect you?
• Do you suffer from FOMO (fear of missing out)?
• Would you like to change your behaviour and how would you do that?
• Should the use of your smartphone be forbidden at school? Why (not)?

Prepare the following questions 

• How much time - on average - do you spend on your phone, tablet, computer?
• Do you think it’s too much?
• In what way does it affect you?
• Do you suffer from FOMO (fear of missing out)?
• Would you like to change your behaviour and how would you do that?
• Should the use of your smartphone be forbidden at school? Why (not)?

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