I. NUMBERS. Listen to the video and write the missing numbers.
| Two and a half | seven | two and a half | 350 million | Half | a billion |
- In 2009, Facebook had ____________ active users.
- Today, Instagram has about _______________ active users.
- Facebook has ___________________ active users.
- ____________of the world is on some kind of social media platform.
- According to research of 2019, we spend________________ hours per day per user
- By the end of our lifetime, the Bureau of Labour and Statistics is predicting that this generation of users will have spent ____________years of their lives on social media that’s more than housecleaning, shopping, in-person socialization combined.
II. (1:20) EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA. Note down the adjectives the speaker uses to describe how people feel after interacting on social media.
- 50% of social media users would say that they feel : a____________ or e________________ after interacting on social media
- Other people indicate they feel e______________, depressed, i______________, lonely, d_______________ with life.
- University of Pensilvannia correlated the _______________time we spend on social media the_________________ the likelihood of negative effects on our physical health, on our mental health and on our general life satisfaction.
III. (2:20) Listen to this part of the video and answer the question.
What other perspective does the woman want us to take when we log in to social media?
IV. (3:07) Tick the examples the speaker gives to describe how our culture tells us that an influencer is:
- Visions of a fire festival and boats going to islands that don’t exist
- People sharing their lives
- Young people playing video games while giving their opinion on different topics
- Many women or fashion influencers who are showing you what they are wearing in front of a mirror
- People commenting on what other people do.
- One person who continually pops to the top of your feed trying to sell you a product you don’t want and you don’t need
V. (3:37) What does the dictionary say? Fill in the gaps.
| Influence:
The _________________ to have an _______________ on the character, behaviour, or development of someone or something. |
VI. What is the conclusion the speaker reaches from this definition?
VII. In pairs, discuss what the speaker means when she says we can all be influencers. How? Give examples.
