Ch5 - G. Reading

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

How Social Media Changed Your Life Forever

Lesson goals

• You know how much social media changed the lives of the youth.
• You can read understand the main point in short informative texts.

How social media changed teen life forever

• Do you ever feel insecure after being on social media?
• Who has ever gone viral?
• Did you get hate comments? How do you feel about them?

Read the text on p. 82-83

What's the function of the first paragraph?

1. To entertain the reader with funny anecdotes.
2. To give a summary of the upcoming topics of the text.
3. To introduce the subject with opinions and facts.

Independent reading time

• You're going to read about how social media changed the lives of teenagers.
• Open your book on p.82 & 83
• Do ex. 43c and 45 

Pick three words and write three complete sentences in which you use the words.

adolescent – damage – device – miserable – opportunity – self-esteem

Have a look at the timelines from exercise 42 as well as the paragraph History of social media in the text. Then consider the following: Professor Booth states: ‘And in 60 years, when a new form of communication technology comes out, people who are teens today may look at each other and think about how much better it was when people were texting and sending emojis back in the day.’ What do you think this ‘new form’ may look like? Or do you think perhaps we will take a break from social media as we know it? Write a short text in which you describe how you think our means of communication will change and what they will look like 60 years from now. 

Write approximately 75 words.

Writing task

I can understand main points of short, informative texts.

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