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Разработка к уроку Современные медиа и их влияние на английский язык

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Look at these lexical items related to new media and think about which ones you know.apps

bandwidth

blogosphere

cloud

mmorpg

mobile devices

multitasking

netizen



on demand

smartphone

social networking

spam

trolling

tweet

unfriended

upload

wifi







Can you put the words in the correct place in the gaps below? Write your answers in your Notes

    1. I finally got a _________ a couple of years ago...

    2. ...and love the idea of being able to take pictures of things that catch my eye and _________ them to my Facebook page within a few seconds...

    3. I don't have many ________, but I do use Twitter quite a lot.

    4. I don't _________ about what I had for breakfast or anything...

    5. I have become a bit of a Facebook addict, actually. I check it all the time, and really worry if I get _________ .

    6. I've lost count of the number of __________ I've had...

    7. as long as I can get a _________ connection...

    8. ...and there's enough _________

    9. That's what I love about ___________: I can keep in touch with all my family and friends no matter where I am.

    10. I store most of my important documents and pictures on the _________, so I can access them anywhere.

    11. I'm a big __________ fan - World of Warcraft is my favourite.

    12. Other than that, _________ movies are a godsend - no more trips to the shops to find a dvd.

    13. I don't use email much anymore - I just kept getting lots of _______

    14. I certainly do not want to be a _________.

    15. I'm not good at _________ either.

    16. People say the __________ is becoming increasingly influential...

    17. this phenomenon of ________ - people being really rude or cruel just because they can hide behind the anonymity the internet offers.

























In this activity you are going to look at some new words specific to the internet.

The improvement in the quality of predictive text functions on most phones now mean that it's no longer necessary to abbreviate things like 'later' to 'l8r', 'today' to '2day' or 'see you' to 'CU,' for example. However, the popularity of text messaging, instant messaging and Twitter has meant that brevity is still important. This has led to a number of acronyms being frequently used.

Look at the common acronyms below. Some you may know, others you might not. Try and guess or find their meanings. There are some sites below which you might like to use to do this. brb

btw

fyi

imho

lmao

lol

nsfw

omg

rofl

tl;dr

wtf

yolo

Try using these sites:

Wiktionary Urban Dictionary Oxford Dictionaries Internet Slang

Here's an email exchange I had with a colleague the other day:

Colleague: Thought it was a bit too easy! I'll go back to them and see when the next times are. Thanks Simon

Me: Sorry about this. If you cc me, then I can take over planning and make your life easier

Colleague: i don't mind - lets see what she says next but if it gets silly i'll step aside.

This is a very modern phenomenon: writing that reads like conversation. Day by day, prose is becoming blessedly more like speech. Social media, blogs and emails have hugely improved the way we write.

Before the internet, only professional writers wrote. I remember the term at school when we were taught to write essays. Most of my classmates just endured it. They'd never written down their extended thoughts before, and were confident they'd never need do it again.

A woman I know says only after the internet arrived did she realise her mother was semi-literate. Previously they'd always communicated by phone, but now Mom was suddenly sending her emails full of "!!!!"s and "……"s.

Email kicked off an unprecedented expansion in writing. We're now in the most literate age in history. I remember in 2003 asking someone, "What's a blog?" By 2006, the analysis firm NM Incite had identified 36 million blogs worldwide; five years later, there were 173 million. Use of online social media rises every month. In fact, writing is overtaking speech as the most common form of interaction. Ofcom</<font color="#000000">, the UK's communications regulator, says Britons now text absent friends and family more often than they speak to them on the phone or in person.

Pessimists like to call this the death of civilisation: a vision of mute youths exchanging semi-literate solipsistic messages. John Humphrys, the BBC broadcaster, once dismissed "texters" as "vandals who are trying to do to the language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours".

He's wrong. As the Columbia linguist John McWhorter points out, pedants have been lamenting the decline of language since at least AD63. Clare Wood, development psychologist at Coventry University, says very little research exists to back up claims such as Humphrys'. Her own study of primary schoolchildren suggested that texting improved their reading ability. Texters, after all, are constantly practising reading and spelling. Sure, children tend not to punctuate text messages. But most of them grasp that this genre has different rules from, say, school exams. That's a distinction we adults are slowly learning: I've only just begun dropping commas from texts.

But texts, blogs, emails and Facebook posts are infecting other kinds of writing, and mostly for the good. They are making journalism, books and business communications more conversational.

Social media offer a pretty good model for how to write. First, the writers mostly keep it short. People on Twitter often omit "I", "the" and "a", which are usually wastes of space anyway. Vocabulary tends to be casual: bloggers say "but" instead of "however". They don't claim a false omniscience, but proclaim their subjectivity. And the writing is usually unpolished, barely edited. That's a great strength. "Major Memory for Microblogs"*, a recent article in the academic journal Memory & Cognition, found that people were much better at remembering casual writing like Facebook posts or forum comments than lines from books or journalism. One possible reason: "The relatively unfiltered and spontaneous production of one person's mind is just the sort of thing that is readily stored in another's mind." That's probably why Twitter, Facebook and reality TV are successful.

The unfiltered productions of people's minds are often stupid. However, they don't have to be. Nobel Prize-winning academics tweet too. You can say brilliant things even in casual conversational prose (except perhaps if you're an astrophysicist). It's just that conversational prose improves your chances of being heard and understood. True, other styles are valid too. Jane Austen wrote formally. But for an average writer with no particular gift, the conversational mode works best. (The other tip for getting a point across is to tell a human story, as I always want to shout at conference speakers who talk in diagrams.)

Of course, bad writing still abounds. The Onion magazine loves parodying newspaper prose, as in this fake news story naming North Korea's leader Kim Jong-eun as the sexiest man alive: "With his devastatingly handsome, round face, his boyish charm, and his strong, sturdy frame, this Pyongyang-bred heartthrob is every woman's dream come true." And old-fashioned overwriting survives too, as in this recent newspaper column about insomnia: "Those liminal hours between dark and dawn continue to haunt my praxis even now that my nest is empty."

But mostly, social media have done wonders for writing. George Orwell in 1944 lamented the divide between wordy, stilted written English, and much livelier speech. "Spoken English is full of slang," he wrote, "it is abbreviated wherever possible, and people of all social classes treat its grammar and syntax in a slovenly way." His ideal was writing that sounded like speech. We're getting there at last.





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