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1. Technologies such/like as smartphones cater to this/these idea that we can
maximize our efficiency by getting things done in parallel with each another/other.
2. Media multitasking is increasingly common, to the extent that any/some have
dubbed today’s teens "Generation M."
3. Students reported not just/only the number of hours per week that they used
each/every type of media, but too/also rated how often they used each/every type of
media simultaneously with each/every other type of media.
4. This last finding was surprising, because psychologists know what/that
multitasking involves switching rapidly between tasks rather then/than actually
performing multiple tasks simultaneously.
5. Those/these who engage in media-multitasking more/most frequently are "breadth-
biased," preferring to explore any/every available information rather than/that restrict
themselves.
Task 2.Use the most suitable linking word (in contrast, according to, compared to,
likewise, because, in favor of, but) for each gap.
1. … it’s not uncommon to see job advertisements that place “ability to multitask” at
the top of their list of required abilities.
2. This last finding was surprising, …, psychologists know that multitasking involves
switching rapidly between tasks rather than actually performing multiple tasks
simultaneously.
3. …, people who do not usually engage in media-multitasking showed a greater
ability to focus on important information.
4. They found that the high- and low- media-multitasking groups were equally able to
control their responses, …that the heavy media-multitasking group had difficulties.
5. …the low media-multitasking group, when asked to ignore information that was in
the environment or in their recent memory.
6. …the researchers, this reflects two fundamentally different strategies of
information processing.
7. On the other extreme are those who avoid breadth …information that is relevant to
an immediate goal.
Task 3. Topics for discussion:
1. What do you mean by “information”?
2. How much information do you usually receive every day? How much of it do
you really need? Can you agree with Sherlock Holms that we don’t need
information which is useless in our work, or anyway we should know that “The
Earth orbits the Sun”?
Text 8
Exercise 1. Make nouns from the following adjectives and adjectives from the
following nouns according to the model and translate them.
Model: dark – dark[ness], use – use[less]
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