How Active Are You on Social Media?

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Materials Daily News

Intermediate

Learning Objectives

In this lesson you will:

Improve your ability to talk about social media.

Exercise 1

Warm-up

Have a short conversation based on these questions. Make sure you ask your tutor some questions too!

What social media sites do you use?

Have you ever thought about quitting social media?

Exercise 2

Vocabulary

Listen and repeat these words with your tutor. If you don't know a word, ask your tutor to read the definition and example sentence.

comment

Verb

trend

Noun

influencer

Noun

tag

Verb

feed

Noun

content

Noun

Let's Practice

Fill in the blanks using the vocabulary items to complete these sentences.

What kind of do you enjoy on social media?

Have you heard of this new TikTok ?

A lot of people have on my post.

My best friend me in a lot of memes.

I to a few cooking channels.

I don't follow any fitness .

This website has so many .

My is nothing but dog videos these days!

Exercise 3

Useful Language

Listen and repeat these words with your tutor.

fake news
addiction
trolls
mental health issues
privacy
hate speech

Let's Practice

Tell your tutor which of the items on the list you find concerning about social media and which you do not.

Exercise 4

Dialogue

Read the dialogue aloud with your tutor, then answer the questions.

	Yan-ting What sort of accounts do you follow on social media?
	Nina My feed is mostly just friends and family, and some travel influencers. How about you?
	Yan-ting Same, but I also follow a bunch of news outlets and some celebrities, too.
	Nina How active are you on social media?
	Yan-ting I post every once in a while but mostly I just react to posts from friends and family or comment on their photos and things. And of course I'm always tagging my friends in memes. What about you?
	Nina I've actually been trying to stay away from social media. I might go three or four days without looking at it. Do you limit the amount of time you spend on social media?
	Yan-ting I try to take breaks too, but it's hard to stay away from it completely!
	Nina Yeah, I pretty much had to force myself not to touch my phone. It's just so addictive and it's causing lots of mental health issues for young people.
	Yan-ting Yep. What concerns you the most about social media?
	Nina The main thing that worries me is how much fake news there is out there. I think it's really scary because people can't always tell the difference between real information and fake news.
	Yan-ting Yeah, I agree. And there's so much hate speech and harmful content out there, too.

Check Your Understanding

What kind of accounts does Nina follow on social media?

Which speaker finds it hard to stay away from social media?

What concerns Nina the most about social media?

Exercise 5

Find the Mistake

Find and correct the mistake in each sentence. Be careful — not all sentences have a mistake!

Do you limit the amount of times you spend on social media?

How active do you on social media?

I'm tired of seeing so much fake news on social media.

Privacy is one of the biggest concern for me.

I wish there weren't so many ads on social media.

What concern you the most about social media?

There isn't much content that interest me.

Social media addiction has become a major social problem.

Exercise 6

Fill in the Blanks

Read the dialogue aloud with your tutor and fill in the blanks. You will be Hannah. Use the Answer Pool below to help you.

	Hyun-woo What sort of accounts do you follow on social media?
	Hannah Mostly just fitness and well-being (1). And dog memes. How about you?
	Hyun-woo Just my friends, really. How active are you on social media?
	Hannah Pretty active, I'd say. I tend to (2) on a lot of things and tag my friends. I check my (3) almost constantly, to be honest.
	Hyun-woo I feel like I'm always on social media, too. Not long ago I turned off notifications for some apps. Do you limit the amount of time you spend on social media?
	Hannah No, but maybe I should think about it! It's probably not great for my (4) to spend all day (5).
	Hyun-woo What concerns you the most about social media?
	Hannah The spread of (6) worries me. It's hard to know what's true sometimes, and it feels like false (7) spreads much faster.
	Hyun-woo Yeah, it's pretty terrifying!
	Hannah What about you? What (8) you the most?
	Hyun-woo Privacy is a big one for me. With all the data collection and targeted ads, it sometimes feels like social media companies know more about us than we do ourselves!
	Hannah That's a good point!

Choose answers from the options below that fit in blanks 1 to 8

Answer Pool (Questions 1-8)

feed
concerns
influencers
comment
scrolling
information
mental health
fake news

Exercise 7

Conversation

Have a conversation based on these questions. Don't forget to ask your tutor some questions too!

What sort of accounts do you follow on social media?

How active are you on social media?

Do you limit the amount of time you spend on social media?

What concerns you the most about social media?