Directions: Listen to the following passage about online learning. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed,listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings,the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase,with intervals of 15 seconds.The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work.
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1. Do traditional classrooms provide the only means of meeting one's learning needs? How could online learning help you with your English?
2. Besides,what else can you gain from the boom of the Internet? Please give some examples.
A viral video on the evils of social media has ironically taken the internet by storm, with it's sentimental story of a love that never happened thanks to one boy's infatuation with his phone. The video titled “Look Up” features a spoken word poem by London writer-director Gary Turk who advises viewers to “look up from your phone, shut down the display, take in your surroundings, and make the most of today”.
“Look Up” was posted to YouTube on April 25, and just 10 days later already has over 14 million views. The video starts off with Turk saying he has “422 friends, yet I'm lonely”. It continues to tell the story of a boy who meets a girl when he gets lost and asks for direction.
The two then become a couple, and the video shows them sharing romantic dinners, strolls through the countryside and laughs on the couch. The couple buys a house, get married and have a baby girl,who we see grow up and leave the nest. Their daughter later comes back, having married and had a baby herself and the proud grandfather clutches his grandson. As his graying wife dies, she whispers about how “she's happy she got stopped by that lost boy in the street”.
But here's the catch—it never happened. The film then goes back the moment the boy would have asked for directions, and his “ future wife” is seen passing by as he looks at his phone—likely posing his question to Google Maps instead. Because, as Turk explains,“when you’re too busy looking down, you don't see the chances you miss.”
Directions: Please watch a video titled “ Look up” and summarize the main idea of the video in one sentence .
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Directions: Read the following statements about the video. Decide true ( T) or false (F) for each statement.
(1)I have 422 friends so I am not lonely.
[T] [F]
(2)I speak to all of them every day and all of them really know me well.
[T] [F]
(3)When I was a child I’d never be home, I’d be out with my friends,we’d roam on our bikes.
[T] [F]
(4)It's not very likely you'll make world's greatest Dad without using an iPad.
[T] [F]
(5)It is a good idea to look up from your phone, take in your surroundings,and make the most of today.
[T] [F]
(6)Don't waste your life getting caught in the net because we have a finite existence.
[T] [F]
Directions: Watch the video again. While watching, you are required to make notes on details and get ready to summarize the video orally or in written form. The following table will help you organize the concerned information of “Look up from your phone” in the video.