ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ 1(brainstorming)

HEALTH PROBLEMS: - People are overweight.

- They eat a lot of fat and don’t do exercises regularly.

- Some women try to follow a diet, but sometimes it’s not healthy at all.

- Teens begin to smoke and drink.

- Pupils often play computer games or watch TV a lot.

- Using the telephone and writing a SMS can be not healthy at all. We can be tired of it.

- Teens become addicted nowadays because SMS has already become a part of the culture.

- Texting damages the ability to use the proper language.

ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ 1.1 (pupil’s ideas during the lesson)

FOR / AGAINST
- isn’t dangerous at all, because I don’t use it very often.
- I can do it very quickly and in a short way.
- Sending an SMS may seem a good way to get rid of the feeling of loneliness.
- it’s very convenient today / - using a telephone isn’t healthy, especially a SMS.
- writing a SMS can be not healthy at all. We can be tired of it.
- Texting damages the ability to use the proper language.
- some teens become addicted nowadays because SMS has already become a part of the culture.
- sending sms messages are growing.
- the global problem
- we can lose normal human contacts.
- depending on SMS -texting

ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ 2.1(The Text)

Psychologists say that a new disease has appeared in the whole world.

1)  Is this disease really serious?

Text “addiсtion” on the increase

The Short Message Service (sms) dependence in a serious and real disease, which may be dangerous for young thinking abilities. Some teachers in Britain have started saying that texts are damaging your ability to use proper English. The epidemic passion for mobile phones in the world has brought in a fondness for SMS messages. Short Message Service has already become a part of the young culture.

Professional psychologists already offer their services in connection with the SMS – mania.

(1)  ………………….. British scientists from the Priory Clinic think that sending SMS has turned into a global mania. Doctors say that more people are addicted to sending text messages.

There are people in the western society, who have become seriously addicted to texting their friends. (2) ………………Specialists say that a big fan of SMS messages doesn’t think of them as a way of communication. (3) ………………… More importantly, an ill person may not even think that he has psychological problems. Special help groups are being set up for text addicts, who send as many as 200 SMS messages every day.

Centers will be trying to cure texters in London, Hampshire and Glasgow.

German experts say that not less than 380 thousand Germans have the SMS addiction.

“There is no serious scientific research of the SMS phenomenon in Russia yet. A theory says that the virtual communication is increasing all over the world and people are losing the art of personal communication,” Sergey Enikopov from the Russian Scientific Center For Psychological Health said. “Operators are trying to “infect” people with the disease, with the help of the short message service. (4) ……………..On the other hand , the texting communication replaces normal human contacts,” he added.

The mobile market is developing very fast, which raises the numbers of those who cannot live a day without an SMS message.

“Maybe it is not a disease, but it is a clear symptom of the fact that human communication is becoming difficult for people,” Sergey Enikopov said.

ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ 2.2

2)  What is the main idea of the article?

A. People who send a lot of text messages should be put into hospitals because they are dangerous to the society.

B. SMS –addiction is a real disease and the number of people who have become addicted to sending sms messages are growing.

C. In Russia there is no such problem because not all people have mobile phones.

ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ 2.3

3) Fill in the gaps in the article (1-4) with the sentences (A-E) that have been removed from the article. Pay attention to the highlighted words in the sentences (A-E). One sentence is extra.

A. Sending an SMS may seem a good way to get rid of the feeling of loneliness.

B. Little is known about this side of the mobile communication mania in Russia, although the SMS – addiction has already been studied in the West.

C. They become a whole environment for such individuals.

D. Psychologists say that mobile phones have generated a new epidemic in the whole world.

E. Such people can spend hours, pressing buttons on their phones.

ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ 2.4

ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ 2.5 (A Card to pupils)

VERB / NOUN / NOUN(person) / ADJECTIVE / ADVERB
Dependence / dependent
fond
connect
science
serious
special
communicate
psychology
addict

ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ 2.6 (A fulfilled card of pupils after the lesson and homework)

VERB / NOUN / NOUN(person) / ADJECTIVE / ADVERB
depend / Dependence / dependent / dependently
fondness / fond
connect / connection / connecting
science / scientists / scientific
serious / seriously
specialists / special / specially
communicate / communication / communicative
psychology / psychologists / psychological
addict / addiction / addicted
danger / dangerous / dangerously
text / Text/ texting / texters / texting
recommend / recommendation / recommending