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1. Соедините части предложений о том, для чего используют интернет (cм.: Грамматический справочник §9). Переведите.

2. Прочитайте блог. Выберите намерение (цель) каждого из авторов.

1. To explain his/her generation to older people,

2. To give advice to parents of digital teenagers,

3. To talk about 80s music and fashion,

4. To ask for help with his/her two teenagers.

а) Leta: Now, I’ve got two teenage sons and I’m the parent. We get on well and they even like some of my music. They spend ALL their life on their laptops. They log on and spend hours online before logging off again. I use computers, too but I don’t use them all the time. What can I do? Posted 07/04/18 at 19:20 p.m.

Сomments: 4. To ask for help with his/her two teenagers.

б) MegaMix: So, you’ve noticed, Leta! We’re the first digital generation and we multitask all the time. We have real-time chats online with our friends or post messages on their homepages. We upload music, photos and jokes to our webpages. We download music to our MP3 players or mobiles so we can listen to it offline. We play interactive computer games with people around the world. We surf the Net for our studies and log on websites to express our opinions. Posted 07/04/18 at 21.33 p.m.

2. To give advice to parents of digital teenagers,

в) Dr Psycho: Leta, your sons are part of “Generation Now”. Today’s teens have grown up with the Net and, for them, the virtual world is as important as the real world. They are digital natives* and you are a digital immigrant**. Talk to your sons about what they do online and get online yourself! Go digital, too! Posted 07/04/18 at 22.12 p.m.

*Digital natives: people who were born after laptops, mobile phones, etc. became common (so from the early to mid-1990s).

**Digital immigrants: people born before their introduction, who have had to get used to this new technology.

1. To explain his/her generation to older people.

3. Определите, кому из блогеров принадлежит мнение (одно мнение лишнее).

1. “Teenagers use computers too much!” А

2. “My parents were conservative when I was a teenager.” Б

3. “Life has changed a lot because of digital technology.”

4. “Our lives are very different from our parents.” В

4. Допишите слова, как они употреблены в упражнении 2.

Образец: 1) web___ — webpages,

2) webpages 3) homepages 4) laptop 5) online 6) offline 7) real time 8) to upload, 9) to upload 10) to multitask

5. Дополните глаголы в левой колонке словами из правой колонки, как они употреблены в упражнении 2 б). Переведите.

6. Напишите 10-15 предложений о том, как и для чего вы используете и не используете интернет. Используйте выражения из упражнений. Соблюдайте порядок слов в утвердительном и отрицательном предложении (cм.: Грамматический справочник §6, 7).

I as many other people use Internet. Internet appeared not so long ago, but now I can’t imagine my life without it.

It has entered many spheres of my life. It simplified it so much that I shall refuse this invention under no circumstances. I use the internet in many ways. I communicate with people, even with those who live abroad. I share my knowledge, emotions, feelings and experience by means of blogging or microblogging. I find any information in less than a minute. I plan my trips, book flight tickets, and hotels.

I purchase clothes and other items, too. In other words, I have a wide range of online activities which help me to get in touch with people, learn something new every day and be aware of all happening in the world. I have got used to this level of information accessibility due to which I feel more confident and free to express our viewpoint.