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READING Internet addiction
I can understand a text about internet addiction.
1 Read the title of the article. What do you think
it means to be trapped in the net?
STUDY STRATEGY
Matching headings
with paragraphs
2 1.38 Read the text and underline words
and ideas that go with headings a–e. Then
match the headings with paragraphs 1–4.
There is one heading that you do not need.
Then listen and check your answers.
a Online gamer
b Do something about it
c Stolen identity
d A new identity
e Serious symptoms
6 YOUR OPINIONS Ask and answer the questions.
1 Do you know anyone who has similar
problems to those described in the text?
2 How do they behave?
3 How do you use the internet?
4 Do you think you spend too much time on
the internet? Why / Why not?
5 What are the positive and negative sides of
the internet?
3 Complete the summary of the text with six
of the words in the box.
plays games messages online internet
chat rooms real virtual psychologists
This article describes two people’s experience
of the 1 . Jenny spends time in a 2
community, while Tom 3 online. These days
some people spend more time in 4 and on
game sites than with their 5 friends. It’s a
problem which 6 have now identified and
which they can treat.
4 BUILD YOUR VOCABULARY Find the nouns
in the text that go with these verbs.
fight make turn on play recognize
feel spend
turn on – laptop
5 Complete the sentences with the correct
form of the verbs in exercise 4. What are
the new collocations?
Can you turn on the TV, please?
1 I’m sure I the man by the door.
2 I angry when I lose a game.
3 I can’t any more money.
4 My sister the piano very well.
5 They always a lot of noise.
6 They their enemies.
30 Life online
1 Jenny Foxton is a secondary school student, but she’s
also got another life. She spends all night on the net.
Every night she turns on her laptop and visits a virtual
world called Habbo, where users have created avatars,
rooms and communities. Jenny’s avatar has bought
clothes and also furniture for her room, using virtual
money. When she isn’t buying virtual possessions, her
avatar moves from place to place, chatting to some of
the millions of people who have joined Habbo in the UK.
2 Tom Dobson’s life on the internet is different, but also
very time-consuming and obsessive. At two or three
o’clock in the morning, Tom is often fighting battles
with ogres on his computer. Tom hasn’t slept. His
mother made him a sandwich seven hours ago, but he
hasn’t eaten it. He’s one of eleven million people who
play World of Warcraft online. His battle continues ... .
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