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5. go-go adj.
6. middleman n
7. conduit n
8. text v
4. the state in which sb/sth is not well known or has been
forgotten
5. connected with a style of dancing to pop music in
which women dance wearing very few clothes
6. a person who helps to arrange things between people
who do not want to talk directly with each other
7. a person, an organization or a country that is used to
pass things or information to other people or places
8. to send a written message using a mobile phone
Task 1. Read the article and be ready to discuss the following.
1. What had happened to the number of mobile phone users in the last decade?
2. What basic human quality is explained by the mobile phone?
3. Which section of society is mainly responsible for the spread of mobile
phones?
4. How has the mobile phone altered ‘our experience of solitude’?
5. Where are mobile phone subscriptions doubling?
6. How or why are mobile phones used by the following:
a. students in Beijing
b. Somali traders in Dubai
c. teenage girls in Birmingham
d. the migrant population in China
e. villages in Bangladesh
f. political activists in the Philippines?
7. Why are teenagers in Japan called ‘the Thumb Tribe’?
8. Why is the mobile phone compared to a ‘prosthetic organ’?
Task 2. Look through the following extracts from the article and express your
viewpoint.
- “…their usage has rewritten many social rules about where, when and what one
should communicate.”
1. Are there any ‘social’ rules about mobile phone usage in your country?
2. What advice would you give a foreign visitor to your country about the use of a
mobile phone?
-“…the mobile phone alters people’s expectations about what is possible and
desirable and changes the parameters of their social lives”.
1. Can you think of any examples of how the mobile phone has changed our
expectations or social lives?
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