This Is Show Smartphones Are Making Us Stupid

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This is show smartphones are making us stupid

I Warm-up

If you had to live without one of the following things, what would you choose?

 smartphone
 satnav
 TV set
 headphones
 smartwatch

How would you interpret the illustration?

II Watch the video and do the tasks.

1. Children shouldn’t have an access to smartphones at all. T / F


2. What difference between young and older employees does Simon Sinek mention?
3. Jim Kwik says that we’re so __________ on our smartphones that they’re making us stupid.
4. What example does Jim give proving that smartphones are making us stupid?
5. Sinek claims that it’s better to put a smartphone upside down when you have a meeting. T / F
6. When are relationships built according to Simon?

III Discussion

1. Do you agree with the statements the speakers from the video made? Why/Why not?
2. Is technology a blessing or a danger? Explain.
3. In what ways does technology make our life more difficult?
4. At what age should children be allowed to use smartphones?
5. Should children/teenagers be allowed to use smartphones at school?
Life before smartphones: share your memories
Do you remember what it was like before you could check emails or listen to music on your phone?

I was given my first phone when I was 13 and it was a Philips Savvy Vogue. I remember the excitement of making a call without a
cord, but also the pain of pestering my mum to let me use the dial-up connection to chat on MSN Messenger.

Things are different now. The online world is literally at our fingertips - emails are a mere swipe away and videos are accesible with
a touch. 

But what are your memories of life before smartphones? Did you have more face-to-face conversations? How do you think life
differed between then and now? Do you think people are happier now? What has been lost - if anything?

Photographer Eric Pickersgill’s series shows people without their phones and tablets resulting in phantom-like portraits of adults
and children staring at their hands. Their ‘lifelines’ lost as their connection with the world is severed. If you have any stories or
images of what it was like before smartphones, we’d like to hear from you.

I Find the words which mean:

dręczyć, narzucać się –

kabel, przewód –

dosłownie –

dostępny –

różnić się –

kończyć się czymś, doprowadzić do czegoś –

gapić się na coś –

połączenie telefoniczne -

II How has our lives changed since smartphones became popular? Write a short paragraph using the words from the article and
‘used to’.

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