5D- Discussing How I Use Technology

 D  Online fun

1 Reading

A Look at the pictures in the article. What do you see?

B Read the article. What's the best title? Check (✔) the correct answer.

• New Websites
• Chat Online
• Fun Online Activities

Try one of these activities in your free time.

 1   Buy and Sell  

What do you want? A new video game? A new phone? What don't you want? Your old jeans? Your old schoolbooks? Buy and sell things online!

 2                    

Where is your best friend from elementary school now? Does you friend live in you city? Search his or her name, and find your friend.

 3                    

Do you have pictures or movies on your cell phone or camera? Post them! Upload you favorite photos and videos for friends.

 4                    

Tour a museum from your home! Go to the Egyption Museum in Cairo, Barcelona's Picasso Museum, or Kyoto's National Museum.

 5                    

Where do you want to go? Search the address and city, and find a map. Get directions to stores, parks, or a new retaurant.

 6                    

Do you want a new album, your favorite song, or a new ringtone for you cell phone? Download it.

C Read the article again. Where do the headings go? Write them in the article.

• Map it!
• Get music
• Take a Tour
• Buy and Sell
• Share Photos and Videos
• Find an Old Friend

Answer:

1. Buy and sell

2. Find an Old Friend

3. Share Photos and Videos

4. Take a Tour

5. Map it!

6. Get Music

D Pair work What activities do you do online? Tell you partner.

"I hardly ever sell things online, but I sometimes buy clothes online."

2 Listening Four websites

A Listen to Allison and James talk about the pictures on four websites. Number the pictures from 1 to 4.

Answer:

- 2

- 1

- 3

- 4

Script:

Page 53, Exercise 2, Listening, Four websites

JAMES: Hey, Allison.
ALLISON: Oh, hi, James. How's it going?
JAMES: OK. Is that your new computer?
ALLISON: Yeah.
JAMES: It's nice. Hey, who's that?
ALLISON: Oh, Lorena Ochoa.
JAMES: The golfer?
ALLISON: Yeah. This is her fan site. I look at this website sometimes. I look at photos and read news about her.
JAMES: Cool. Do you have other favorite websites?
ALLISON: Sure. Here's one.
JAMES: What's that?
ALLISON: It's the website for MoMA.
JAMES: What's MoMA?
ALLISON: The Museum of Modern Art, in New York City. They have a great site. See? A museum tour.
JAMES: That's fun.
ALLISON: Here's another site I like.
JAMES: Oh, I know this site. I sometimes buy video games on this site.
ALLISON: Right. I sell my old books.
JAMES: I have a favorite site.
ALLISON: Yeah?
JAMES: Look here.
ALLISON: What are those?
JAMES: Cool videos.
ALLISON: Oh, yeah . . . . Do you ever upload videos?
JAMES: No, never. I just watch them. Let's watch this one, OK?

B Listen again. Correct the false sentences.

1. Allison looks at  videos  photos of Lorena Ochoa.

2. The Museum of Modern Art is in Paris.

3. James buys clothes on the websites.

4. James often uploads videos.

Answer:

1.  videos  photos

2.  Paris  New York City

3.  clothes  video games

4.  uploads  watches

3 Writing Let's chat!

A Choose a topic for a "chat": free time, online activities, or school. Create a user name. Then write a question about your topic.

B Group work Pass your question to the classmate on you right. Read and answer your classmate's question. Continue to pass, read, and answer all of the questions in your group.

techgirl: What do you do in your free time?

jae-min: I watch TV and play video games. My favorite video game is Soccer Star.

jramirez: I hardly ever play video games. I usually watch TV at night. My favorite show is. . . 

4 Speaking My favorite website

A Group work Add a question about online habits to the list. Then ask and answer the questions.

• What's your favorite website?
• What other websites do you usually go to?
• Where do you upload your photos and videos?
• What news websites do you read?
• What blogs do you read?
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B Class activties Share you information. Which websites are popular?

 I can  discuss how I use technology.