Mobile Fever Why are we so addicted to mobile phones? There are now over forty million people in
Britain with mobiles and if the present trend continues, every man, woman and child in Britain will
soon have one – or two, or three!
They can be expensive and are possibly bad for us. You can spend a lot of money if you use
your mobile a lot. According to some scientists, if we go on using mobiles, we’ll cook our brains.
Some people even say that radiation from mobiles causes cancer.
Teenagers are among the biggest users of mobiles, and ‘texting’ is creating a new language
full of abbreviations such as ‘How RU?’ in Japan, Surveys show teenagers are reading less and
mobile use is affecting the marks of secondary school learners. A big problem in Britain is crime.
Last year half a million British teenagers were victims of mobile phone theft.
As technology improves, mobiles can do more and more. If you have one of the new
multimedia mobiles, you can log on the net, pay for things, play games, interact with TV programs
and take photos to send to your friends.
Read the text again and answer the questions.
Example: Is this text about addiction to mobile phones?
A) No, it is not
B)Yes, it is
C)No information
D) Neither A nor B
1. How many British people are addicted to mobile phones?
A)60 million
B) 40 million
C) 5 million
D)2million [1]
2. Mobiles can be the reason of…
A)toothache
B) stomachache
C) cancer
D)headache
[1]
3. … are among the biggest users of mobiles.
A) Middle age people
B) Old people
C) Young people
D) Adult people [1]
Read the text and give a short answer.
4. Is radiation one of causes of cancer? [1]
5. Is ‘texting’ creating a new type of communication? [1]
6. Does a mobile phone improve the marks of the learners? [1]
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1. Who are you looking at right now? I'm looking at this old lady.
2. Who is your friend talking to? He is talking to our teacher.
3. What do you tell your friends about? I'm telling them about my holiday.
4. Are you writing a dictation now? No, we are doing exercise 9.
5. Where do you go in the evening? We're going to the circus.
6. When do they come to Moscow? they arrive in the morning.
7. We leave for Minsk.
8. Are these students doing the activity or rewriting the text?
9. Who do these students meet? They meet international students.
10. Where are you going? I'm going to a photo exhibition.
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1. Who are you looking at right now? I'm looking at this old lady.
2. Who is your friend talking to? He is talking to our teacher.
3. What do you tell your friends about? I'm telling them about my holiday.
4. Are you writing a dictation now? No, we are doing exercise 9.
5. Where do you go in the evening? We're going to the circus.
6. When do they come to Moscow? they arrive in the morning.
7. We are leaving for Minsk.
8. Are these students doing the activity or rewriting the text?
9. Who do these students meet? They meet international students.
10. Where are you going? I'm going to a photo exhibition.