Excel 9 grade p. 104 Square- eyed teens Английский язык

Опубликовано: 05 Ноябрь 2024
на канале: English 4 you

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Square- eyed teens!
Are you a screenager? Are you constantly glued to the TV, texting your friends, chatting online, or perhaps trying to move up another level in one of your favourite video games? Well, if you are, you are the majority. You are another quick-thinking, multi-tasking teenager, like millions of others who demand to be constantly in touch with their friends.

Most teenagers do most everything electronically. They watch digital TV, listen to music on a digital MP3 player and communicate electronically with friends through email, instant messaging or by mobile phone. Teenagers even do most of their reading online now. When they need help with their homework, it's often the Internet that they turn to. Gadgets are, in fact, teenagers' primary tools of communication, information and entertainment. According to a recent survey more than half of teenagers prefer to spend their time in their bedroom because that is where their favourite gadgets are.
Experts from all over the world worry that teenagers' addiction to technology is having an affect both on their health and on their behaviour. In some countries, teenagers are getting help. In Britain, for example, there is a clinic that helps young people whose passion for all things electronic is having a negative effect on their lives.
In China and Korea, there are even boot camps where children receive psychological help and treatment. There, young people have to do non-gadget related activities. It's probable that these types of camps will become common in other countries in the future. Learning to keep a balance between the real and the virtual world will help the square- eyed generation' understand that gadgets and technology are useful and fun but they should not let them rule their lives.