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    Unit 1 Culture

    1 Find words in the text that mean:


    1 keep apart from other people (paragraph B)

    2 very important (paragraph B)


    3 disconnected from the electricity supply (paragraph B)

    4 a cable that carries telephone signals (paragraph C)

    5 to gain control of something (paragraph D)

    2 Answer the questions with the names Susan, Anni, Bill


    and Sussy.
    Unplugged Who …
    1 … plays a musical instrument? 
    A Susan Maushart’s three teenage children are relaxing
    at home in Perth, Australia. Fifteen-year-old Bill is 2 … used social networking sites? 
    playing his saxophone. Fourteen-year-old Sussy and and
    eighteen-year-old Anni are playing a board game 3 … wanted to be alone when they used media
    in the same room. Ask the three of them how they technology? and
    prefer to spend their free time, and they will tell you 4 … continued to chat to her friends from home after the
    that it is by doing things together. However, it has not
    experiment started?
    always been like that.
    5 … spent more time in a public building after the
    B Six months earlier, the family spent their time in a experiment started?
    very different way. Sussy and Anni constantly updated
    3 Read the text again and choose the correct alternatives.
    their social networking pages and chatted online
    to classmates and acquaintances. Bill shut himself 1 Susan’s family has / hasn’t always done things together.
    off in his bedroom with his video games. Susan also 2 Susan didn’t like her children’s online friends /
    disappeared with her laptop to write ‘crucial’ emails. the way the family used media technology.
    They lived in the same house but spent their free 3 Sussy and Anni reacted in the same / a different
    time with their online friends instead of talking to way to the experiment.
    each other. Susan was not happy about the situation, 4 The experiment was a success from /
    so she took a very unpopular decision. All the media wasn’t a success at the beginning.
    technology in the house would be unplugged – for 5 Susan thinks we can / can’t live without media
    six months! technology in the modern world.

    C At first, things didn’t go to plan. Sussy became


    addicted to the ‘old’ landline telephone to keep
    in contact with her friends. However, Bill soon
    adapted to the situation: he learnt how to play the
    saxophone and, eventually, sold his games computer.
    Anni sometimes needed to use a computer to do
    homework, so she used the computers at the local
    library. With time, the two sisters also began to
    appreciate the benefits of chatting with the family
    after meals and playing board games together. In
    addition, Sussy started doing much better at school.

    D After six months, the experiment was over. Susan


    says that it is not realistic for people who live in the
    modern world not to use media technology. However,
    all the family agree that they will not let it take over
    their lives again.

    82 PHOTOCOPIABLE  © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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