Instant news and communication

Social networks What are the good an bad things about them? Think in the following terms and complete this table. GOOD BAD Privacy Chat Family Time Communication News Social networks or face-to-face? Chooose one of the following and give two arguments to support your opinion. RECORD your answer.A) I strongly believe it is better to communicate via social networks.B) I strongly believe face-to-face communication is better. Twitter characters - complete each gap with ONE word only. For the first time on Twitter, people will be able to send messages that are longer than 140 characters. While tweets will still be restricted tothe 140-character limit, Direct Messages (DMs) will be capped at 10,000 characters. These are the personal communications sent fromone person to another. Twitter's Product Manager Sachin Agarwal blogged aboutthe change. He wrote: "You can now chat on and on in a single Direct Message and likely still havesome characters left over." He added: "While Twitter is largely apublic experience, Direct Messages let you have private conversations....Tweets…are an opportunity foryou to spark a conversation about what's happening in your world."Twitter users will experience the change over the next few weeks as Twitter rolls out the new system worldwide on a country-by-country basis. The site's co-founder Jack Dorsey recently admitted Twitter needed to do better to keep up with its social networking competitors. Twitter currently has about 300 million global users while rival Facebook has more than 1.4 billion. Sites like Facebook and WhatsApp have spent a lot of money on making their messaging services more user-friendly. Twitter has had a similar focus throughout this year. It recently allowed group DMs and allowed people to accept private messages from people even if they do not follow them. Solutions Upper-Intermediate Student Book 2nd Class Audio CD2 pdf Follow the link, listen to the interview (2.30) and answer the questions below. An interview with a journalist who uses Twitter. First thing in the morning, Maggie adds breaking stories to Twitter. looks for new stories on Twitter. contacts about 1,000 other journalists via Twitter. Maggie uses Twitter to spread news and to ask about news. just to find interesting news stories. just to request information from other journalists. Twitter has helped Maggie to use lots of very short words. to include lots of important information in every tweet. to write more economically and accurately. In order to gauge the truth of a story on Twitter, Maggie tweets the same message to lots of other people. checks the writer's background. asks the writer if he or she is a journalist. One disadvantage of Twitter is that it can't be used by serious journalists. important events can't be described in few words. anybody can use it so there are too many different opinions. Complete the collocations from the interview with the following words: context, events, impact, misinformation, news, picture build up a picture (of)have an impact (on)give the contextdemocratise the newsspread misinformationanalyse events Communication idioms Type your solutions. Type your solutions in the text box below. Complete the following sentences with one word. 1 When were you last in a situation where you couldn’t get a word in edgeways?2 When was the last time you got your wires crossed with someone?3 In what kind of situations might someone beatabout the bush?4 When was the last time you felt like you were talking to a brick wall?5 Can you think of any recent news which has spread like wildfire ?6 When did you last ask someone to keep you posted? Instant news - Twitter Read the text below. Choose the correct option a-d.Twitter can be (1) _ as part social networking site, part 'micro-blogging' site. It allows users to say what they are doing, or what they are seeing or hearing, by posting messages on the Twitter website that their friends or 'followers' can see. The messages, called 'tweets', cannot exceed 280 characters (2) _, which is the defining characteristic of the service. Tweets are displayed on their user's profile page and on the home page of each of his or her followers. At first most people used Twitter to stay (3) _ touch with their friends and family; like other social neworking sites, it was just (4) _ broadcasting where you are, what you are doing, what your are feeling and thinking. But it has (5) _ developed into a place where people share information, opinions and advice, and (6) _ it resembles a blog. (7) _ purpose it serves, it is incredibly popular and used by a huge number of influential people such as politicians, journalists and celebrities.1 a) expressed b) reported c) described d) explained2 a) long b) in length c) longer d) in long3 a) on b) to c) at d) in4 a) a way to b) a means of c) in order to d) a process of5 a) since b) formerly c) still d) soon6 a) in respect of b) as regards c) in that respect d) for what matter7 a) However b) What c) Whatever d) Which Speak RECORD your answer to the following questions:1 Do you have a Twitter account? If so, what do you use it for? If not, would you like to have one? What would you use it for? / Why not?2 Do you use social networking sites to get an update on the latest news? If yes, which one?