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LESSON 18
4. Read the following letter and say how it relates to the previous text.
Dear Sir,
I'm all for the age of information technology and the Internet. Besides, my
own children who are now quite skilled at using a computer have actually
derived many benefits from it. But I really wish the authorities were concerned with making the pupils computer literate as much as making them literate in the traditional sense.
Some modern teenagers can surf the World Wide Web at the speed of
light. Others can reprogram a stolen mobile phone with the aid of a laptop.
However, fewer and fewer of them seem able to write a formal letter or even
their own name.
If you allow them to personalise their learning experience, they'll immediately log on to the nearest games website and fall in love with a Red Indian
in Kansas.
If you let them work at their own pace and in their own environment,
they'll end up spending all day hanging around, smoking and wasting their
time.
What modern teenagers need is discipline.
Computers may provide education but they cannot maintain discipline.
John Brown.
5. Re-read the letter and say whether the following statements are true or false.
Justify your answers with reference to the text.
a) Mr Brown disapproves of the use of computers.
b) No one in his family has ever got on line.
c) He believes that using the Net can be dangerous.
d) He suggests a better balance between literacy skills and computer skills.
6. Which of Mr Browns ideas do you agree with and which do you disagree
with?
7. Refer back to question 3 and the table below and
a) use the following hints to say what people will be able to do in the
future.
Do the shopping from home.
Work at home.
Drive their cars with the help of computers
b) follow the same pattern and provide sentences of your own.
Subject +
am / is / are able to
will be able to