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Skills

Reading

1 Read the article quickly. Tick (✓) the topics which are mentioned.

1 Computer screens 5 Screens you can wear
2 Watching TV 6 The biggest screen in the world
3 Screens and old people 7 Screens in restaurants
4 The future of newspapers and books 8 Health problems

Screens everywhere!

Have you ever thought about how
many screens you look at every
day? Screens are everywhere,
if you think about it. Not only
computer screens, but phones,
adverts in the street, video
games, and so on. They give us
information, they try to sell us
things, and they entertain us.
It’s hard to imagine life without
screens.
About 50 years ago, the average
child started to watch a TV screen
when he or she was about three
years old. Now, the average child Already, you can buy special the morning! Or how about a
watches TV at nine months. The glasses which include a small restaurant menu which is really a
average teenager now spends computer. Just look up in the screen? Just check the food, and
around 7 hours every day looking corner of your eye, and there is type in your order, and the waiter
at some kind of screen. another screen. Wherever you go, will bring it to you!
you can see the time, check the
Are we going to spend even more news, or even take photos and Screens make everything faster
time looking at screens in the videos. You will never miss an and more interesting. We can
future? Some experts think that email or a text again! get information wherever we go,
we will. Most people already but we must also think about the
read the news online, rather Some people think that screens disadvantages. Is it really healthy
than buying a newspaper. And will become normal everywhere, to spend so much time looking
more and more people prefer and they will become more at screens? Do we really need
to read e-books rather than real interactive. How about an so much information? And who is
ones. Some people think that interactive mirror? Just touch it, controlling the information we see?
paper books and newspapers will and check the latest news while
disappear in the future. you’re brushing your teeth in

2 Read the article again. Circle T (true) or F (false).

1 We can see screens everywhere. T / F
2 We start looking at screens at a very young age. T / F
3 More people buy newspapers than read the news online. T / F
4 You can buy special glasses which show your emails. T / F
5 The article talks about ordering food in your own home. T / F

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