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1、1Unit3 Social MediaScriptsOne-minute Presentation SkillChinas WeChat Goes Beyond Social Networking?What is WeChat?Its been called a cross between a Chinese versionofWhatsApp and Facebook,but WeChat covers much more than social networking.“Ican use WeChat to pay for my phone bills and I can use WeCha

2、t to purchase somemovie tickets,and aside from that I can order a Taxi on WeChat.”Kurt started usingthe app in 2011 toconverse with friends.Now he uses it for pretty much everything.So we followed him around Beijing to find out just how much you can do on whatWeChat claims.Its a one-stop app to make

3、 your everyday life easier.“We actually have some discussing groups on WeChat.So we use that sometimesfor communication instead of using group email.Overall WeChat groups serveperfectly for,like my companies,like business purpose.”To make the tool morework-friendly,WeChat allows you to quickly trans

4、fer chats from tablet to desktop,sowhen working at a computer,you no longer need to take your hands off the keyboardand pick the phone to reply to a message.Go to and youll begiven aQR code.Scan the code with the WeChat app and you can start texting on yourcomputer.Last year,WeChat added a wallet fe

5、ature,so you can now use the app to pay forgoods and services.Similar to Alibabas Ali Pay,you can pay utility and credit cardbills,purchase movie tickets and coupons,book a flight,invest in financial productsand even order a taxi.One popular function is the money transfer.Unlike other appswhich ask

6、for a friends phone or bank account numbers,you can easily make thepayment simply by selecting their WeChat ID.The ultimate goal for WeChat is for users to stay with the app,so it has created aplatform where media outlets and enterprises can create a corporate accountandprovide content to read.Users

7、 can subscribe to any of these accounts by searching byname or scanning a QR code.All these accounts arecollapsedinto one subscriptionfolder,so it doesnt interrupt the interface of a chat page.Want to share somethinginteresting with friends?Tap this three-dot buttonon upper right corner and chooseyo

8、ur destination.WeChat may do a lot for its under pressure to do even more.Its2biggest rival,Alibaba,also offers a growing set of e-commerce products and has highhopes for its own chat service.(https:/ for SpeakingFacebook Depression Is Real and Affects Your Life1.Can Facebook cause you to be depress

9、ed or have low self-esteem?A study fromthe University of Houston shows that there is a correlation between people who spenda lot of time on Facebook and people who tend to be more depressed and have lowerself-esteem.Whats up with that?Isnt social media supposed to be something thatbrings us all clos

10、er together?Actually it turns out that it depends on what kind ofperson you are.2.The research suggests that people that spend a lot of time on Facebook are actuallycomparing themselves socially to their friends and acquaintances,and that is the rootof the problem.Now this is something also known as

11、 the competitive mindset.Let mevery quickly explain what thats not.The competitive mindset is not the drive tocompete,to win,to excel,to be the best at what you do.No,no.Thats competing,butthats not a competitive mindset.The competitive mindset is about social competition,trying to outdo other peopl

12、e.3.In the case of Facebook,the competitive mindset is causing people to judgethemselves unfairly in relation to their peers.What happens is pretty basic.They endup judging their day-to-day life washing the car,feeding the dog,cooking dinner,totheir friendshighlight-reel:what they did on vacation,th

13、e peak moments of their life,that time they drank tequila and went parasailing in Mexico.So people wind upcomparing the highlights of their friends lives to their own day-to-day life,and thenbecause of the social comparison theyre doing,they wind up feeling depressed and3having lower self-esteem.4.S

14、o does all this mean that social media is bad?Should we all dump our Facebook,Instagram and Twitter accounts immediately,if not sooner?Well,hold on a secondthere.You see,all of these social media sites are nothing but tools.Think of a hammer.Hammer is a brilliant tool.You can use it to build and cre

15、ate things,but you can alsouse it to beat yourself in the head with it.Facebook is a lot like that.You can useFacebook to keep up with people that live far away,in my case,sometimes withfriends on the other side of the world.You can also use it to compare yourselfnegatively through the competitive m

16、indset.Thats when the tool begins to hinderyour life instead of helping it.5.The fact is dumping your Facebook account isnt going to fix the root of thisproblem,because even if youre no longer on social media,if you have a competitivemindset,youre just going to compare yourself socially to people in

17、 the real world.The solution to this competitive mindset is to begin to understand what a human lifeactually is,that were all in this together and that we all suffer.We all lose people wecare about.We all have problems.Were all ill sometimes.We all have things thatbother us,and yes sometimes we all

18、have low self-esteem.Every single person on thisplanet deals with some of these basic human issues.When you see that your friendshave that,just like you do,then you can stop comparing yourself to them unfavorably.The fact is just because you dont see someone else experiencing the same issues thatyou

19、 have doesnt mean that their life is perfect.You can bet that they do haveproblems,just maybe not the problems that you have.6.So,having a more realistic and frankly less narcissistic view of your friends andthe world around you is the way to solve the Facebook depression problem.If youwant to be a

20、competitor and achieve things in the world,thats fantastic.Just dontcompete socially to try to be your friends and neighbors.Youre not them.Youre you.Take advantage of your strengths and your resources and let them be who they are.Your real power is always in being authentic.Thats where youre going

21、to achieve themost,thats where youre going to come out of your shell and be the most.And youcant do that if youre comparing yourself to other people.(https:/ for SpeakingNews item 1Anew study has found that social media could be affecting the sleep of young adults.The study is a project of researche

22、rs at the University of Pittsburghs School ofMedicine.They found that young people who often use social media are more likely tosuffer from sleep disorders than those who use social media less.The researchers saydoctors should ask young adults about their use of social media when treating sleepissue

23、s.This is one of the first pieces of evidence that social media use really can impactyour sleep,said Jessica C.Levenson.She is a postdoctoral researcher in theuniversitys Department of Psychiatry.She was the lead author of a report on thestudy.The researchers set out to examine the connection betwee

24、n social media use and sleepamong young adults.Levenson noted that these young adults are possibly the firstgeneration to grow up with social media.The researchers wanted to find out how often young people used social media siteslike Facebook,Twitter,Histogram,Snapshot,Credit and Tumbler.For the stu

25、dy,theygave questionnaires to nearly 1,800 adults,aged 19 to 32.On average,members of the study group used social media sites one hour a day.Theyalso visited various social media accounts 30 times per week.Thirty percent of the studys participants reported having serious problems withsleeping.Those

26、people who used social media a lot were three times more likely tohave a sleep disorder.(http:/ item 2UNICEF reports that one in three internet users around the world is a child.Eventhough so many children are online,the organization says little is known about theimpact of digital technology on a ch

27、ilds well-being.More importantly,the report finds that little is being done to protect children from thedangersof the digital world.For example,many children around the world have adigital footprint before they can actually walk and make real footprints.Parents oftenpost photos of their children and

28、 share stories about them.And a childs medicalrecords may be stored in the cloud.5As children grow,they may share additional details about themselves or photos andvideos of themselves.But making all this personal information public may put a childat risk.Lawrence Chandy explains that these risks inc

29、lude the misuse of childrens privateinformation,access to harmful content and cyberbullying.Besides cyberbullying,Lawrence Chandy says children are also at risk from onlinecriminal networks.These criminals target children for some of the worst formsofexploitation and abuse,such as human trafficking

30、and online child sexual abuse.(http:/ ConversationNeilHi.Hi Rob!RobAre you alright,Neil?Are you playing on your smartphone again,are you?NeilErr what was that?Yeah,sorry,Rob just doing something on my smartphone,you know,the kind of phone which allows you to go online.RobOh I can see that.But are yo

31、u waiting for a call?NeilNo.No,I just carry it with me at all times.Where I go,the phone goes.No phone,noNeil!RobOK,but why do you need your phone so much?NeilWhy?!What if I need to go somewhere?How will I find my way?What about theweather?Will it rain today?I need to know these things.RobWhy dont y

32、ou just look up in the sky and see if it is cloudy?NeilLook up to see if it is going to rain?!I have an app which is short for an application,6which is a computer programme for a specific purpose.My app tells me theweather and this one does all the maths I need and heres one for translations,andthis

33、 one here can tell me what Im going toRobOK,OK,OK,I get the point.Today were talking about computersRobYou cant live without them butAmerican technology writer Nicholas Carr,the authorof a book called The Glass Cage-where automation is taking us,thinks they mightcause problems.NeilAccording to Nicho

34、las Carr,using computers means that we are losing skills hetalks about de-skilling.Askill is the ability to do something well because wevepractised it.RobAnd he also talks about the loss of talent talent is a natural ability to do something you didnt have to learn it,youre just naturally good at it.

35、Its something were all bornwith.Carr says that relying on computers means our talent is fading because we dontuse it any more.NeilAnd he goes even further and says were losing some of the things that make ushuman,like empathy,the ability to imagine and understand what other people mightbe feeling.Ro

36、bSo,do you agree with this writer,Neil?NeilI think hes got a point actually.RobIts like the friendships we make on social media.It is nice to get to know new peoplein different countries,but we have to remember that its important to talk to peopleface-to-face too.NeilGood idea,Rob.Rob Thank you.Well

37、,thats it for today.7Neil Bye!(http:/www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/russian/features/6-minute-english/150122)Passage 1Children are hooked on computers.Some spend up to six hours a day ontheir gadgets.They can be playing games live with others elsewhere in theworld,updating their status on social medi

38、a,texting friends or looking for thelatest app to download to their tablets or smartphones.This worried Martin Strott.Hes the headmaster of the Old Hall School inWellington,in the west of England.He was so concerned that he challenged hisstudents to take part in a week of digital detox.Strott told t

39、he local newspaper,the Shropshire Star,that he encourages the pupils tobe computer-savvy from a young age,but is concerned that too much screen timewill affect the development of their social skills.He said that this over-reliance ondigital devices erodes family time and theyre missing out on messag

40、es from bodylanguage and facial expressions from those around them.According to the headmaster,the parents are happy with the initiative.But what aboutthe children?Nine-year-old Fred usually spends around two hours on his gadgets athome after school and around 12 hours on weekends.For him,the digita

41、l detoxexperience was really hard.Fred spent it playing outside,especially cricket.Hesaid that hell probably engage in different activities from now on but he did miss hisphone and online games.The idea of keeping children away from their tech for a while to prevent addiction isnot particularly new.

42、There have been similar initiatives in the US.But are theyeffective in the long run?Well,even if kids go back to their gadgets,the hope is thatat least theyll think about how they use their time.What about you:do you spend too many hours hooked on your digital devices?(http:/www.bbc.co.uk/learningen

43、glish/chinese/features/take-away-english/ep-150720)Passage 2An American study suggests that social media can affect your thinking about otherpeople.We asked young people how many friends they have on Facebook.COLLEGE STUDENTS:Ive never actually,like,stopped and looked at it.Probablysomewhere between

44、,like,350 and 400-I dont know.I would definitely be onFacebook all the time,like,Wow,shes here,hes there.Yeah,Im a heavy user.Irely a lot on it.I find myself checking it multiple times a day.8Researchers at Utah Valley University wanted to explore if the amount of time spenton Facebook affected how

45、users saw others.They asked college students if otherpeople have better and happier lives.And,how long they had used the website andhow many hours a week they spend following Facebook friends.The study foundstudents who were more involved with Facebook were more likely to think otherpeoples lives we

46、re happier.Psychologist Tod Kashdan read the Utah findings.TODKASHDAN:Theyre hearing all these great things happening from other people andfeeling that theyre making a downward comparison to themselves.Such that theyreviewing themselves as My life isnt as interesting or satisfying as other peoples l

47、iveslook like.It is easy to think that ones Facebook friends are always happy becausethey usually tell only about good things in their lives.Some students say they understand that someones Facebook profile may not show thewhole truth about the person.NICOLLE MAY:I give people the impression that myl

48、ife is perfect and theres nothing wrong with it when there is so much,so its reallyfalse,its like someone else completely with my face.MARAM MOHAMED:Imaware that whatever people post on Facebook isnt necessarily,like,what their entirelife is made of.I feel like people put on,like,a fake picture of t

49、hemselves and try tomake themselves look a lot better than they actually are in real life when theyreonline.Tod Kashdan says it is important to live your own life.TOD KASHDAN:Dont spend a lot of time just looking at other peoples positive events.Share yourown and see who are your true friends,who really cares for the things that happen toyou.Psychologists say Facebook users should spend time with their real friends,and noton the Facebook friends they may hardly even know.Im June Simms.