Effects of modern technology 11 Form

Match the sentences with the photos

Listen and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F)

Many of our parents’ parents now keep up with technology.       [True, False]

Technology has had a very negative effect on family communication.       [True, False]

Family members are in more regular contact today than ever before.       [True, False]

2% of a survey said technology worsened family communication.       [True, False]

You often needed a stamp to keep in contact years ago.       [True, False]

More than 3,000 adults were asked whether new technologies had increased the quality of communication with their family.       [True, False]

Read the text. Insert the words from the box into the sentences.

1. TV can be a source of education and               .

2. Studies have shown a direct             between the time spent watching TV and falling educational standards.

3. The more time children and teenagers spend staring at a screen, the higher the risk they will suffer from          , disorders and learning difficulties.

4. Gamers do not only observe acts of violence, they perform them and it may cause           in real life.

5. No one knows what we are going to become in future, but today we are just           because we use computers, cars, mobile phones without knowing how they are produced.

6. However, in our free time we begin         for new things around us, for our own small discoveries.