InternetSC

Warm-up

Can you guess our today's topic?)

The Warm-up Question:
Which website do you visit most often? What do you do there?

Discussion

• How many hours per day do you spend online? Is it too many?

• There is a lot of information on the internet. How do you know which information is accurate?

• Do you worry about online security? What are the risks of being online?

• How old should a child be before they are allowed to use the internet?

• Do you have any experience running a blog or building a website? Talk about it.

• Is your internet fast enough? How do you feel when the internet is working slowly?

• What social media do you use these days? Why do you prefer those over other social networks?

• Do you watch a lot of YouTube? What kinds of content do you watch?

• ​Many services are online these days. Which parts of our lives will never be online?

Video watching

The video is about what the Internet is doing to our brains. The speech is pretty fast and fluent so feel free to rewatch some parts and even use lower speed (0,75 etc.)

List of words and phrases:

• violent насильственный

• superficial поверхностный

• predator хищник

• predators aren't much of an issue уже больше не проблема

• to glance at посмотреть на

• perpetual state of distraction and interruption

  вечное состояние отвлечения и перывания

• to crowd out smth вытеснять

• contemplative созерцательный

• consolidation уплотнение

• to be a google search away

  быть в "гугловой" доступности

• humanity is at stake

  человечность поставлена на карту

• to be eroded разрушаться

After watching

• What thoughts come to your mind after/during watching?

• What would you like to change in your internet usage?

• What was new information did you get from the video?

• Share your general opinion on that topic.

Reflection

• How do you feel?

• What would you like to share with us?

• What is your impression?