Conversation & Listening Activity
Discuss the questions below with a partner
or in small groups.
 -Would you consider a digital detox for
a while- no social media, no smartphone, no email?
-How would you feel about one whole
day without using any technology?
-How hard would it be? Too extreme?
Doable?
-What would you do? How would you
spend it? Describe it as best as possible, from dusk till dawn!
-Would you do it for charity, for a
good cause, or as a promise? Why (not)?
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A Tech Vacation: Listening Segment
NPR - 2.43 min
Listen to the report on anexperiment with digital detox, and answer whether the statements that follow
are TRUE, FALSE or NOT MENTIONED. Please
account for those which you think are false.
1.Most people are able to do it.
2. The experiment involved disconnecting
from phone and TV.
3.Disconnecting from music is one of the
hardest part.
4.People were allowed to watch the news
in case of an emergency.
5.Technology attachment can be compared
to an addiction.
6.For Tasha Wallis of Morrisville,
Vermont it was easy to do it during her
vacations.
7.Someone claims to have spent his
vacation in a cabin without TV or Internet but checked email in town.
8.One person thought about keeping the
iPhone in a safe for 24 hours, but couldn’t do it.
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