Clinic for Internet addicts opens in US
If you have to take a quick break from reading this article to send a text message or check your Blackberry, then the good news is that help is at hand. A new centre for cyberspace addicts has opened in the US city of Seattle. It claims to be America’s first residential centre for people addicted to the Internet and video games.
For $14,000, six people at a time can spend 45 days fighting against their constant need to connect to the Internet. Residents are given counselling and psychotherapy, as well as group activities such as household chores, walks in the grounds and exercising.
The centre, in the countryside about 50km outside Seattle, is the idea of therapist Hilarie Cash. She recorded her first case of cyberspace addiction in 1994, with a patient so glued to video games that he lost his marriage and two jobs. But until this summer she had only met patients on a day-by-day basis.
Cash points out that although countries such as China, South Korea and Taiwan have places where Internet addicts can find help, America has been slow to recognise the problem.
Ben Alexander, 19, was one of the centre’s first residents. He became addicted to the video game World of Warcraft, which took up most of his time awake. He started playing the game when he was a new student at Iowa University:“At first it was a couple of hours a day. By midway through the first semester, I was playing 16 or 17 hours a day,” he said.
By comparison to the whizz-bang on the screen in front of him, the social life at university seemed very boring. He came to see the game as an “easy way to socialise and meet people”. Alexander eventually left the university and found help with his gaming problem. 8 “I don’t think I’ll go back to World of Warcraft any time soon,” he said.
Original article by Ed Pilkington, rewritten by Janet Hardy-Gould
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/interactive/2010/jul/22/lower-october-2009)
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4. People have been slow to recognise the addiction in:
China.
South Korea.
The US.
5. Ben began to have problems when he started:
At college.
At the centre.
At work.
6. Ben found the game a good way to:
A-Study.
B-Meet people.
c-Help this problem .... Find in the text a synonym of the following words Tasks matrimony detect
China.
South Korea.
The US.
5. Ben began to have problems when he started:
At college.
At the centre.
At work.
6. Ben found the game a good way to:
A-Study.
B-Meet people.
c-Help this problem .... Find in the text a synonym of the following words Tasks matrimony detect
Rewrite the following sentences as proposed
Nrº 7
Turn into reported speech:
At first it was a coupe of hours a day. by midway through the
first semester. i was playng 16 or 17 hous a day. he said
__________
Join these sentences using a relative pronoun:
A new centre of cyberspace addicts has opened in
the us city of seattle. it claims tp be America´s´ first
residential centre for pleope addicted to the internet
and videogames
____________
Nrº 7
Turn into reported speech:
At first it was a coupe of hours a day. by midway through the
first semester. i was playng 16 or 17 hous a day. he said
__________
Join these sentences using a relative pronoun:
A new centre of cyberspace addicts has opened in
the us city of seattle. it claims tp be America´s´ first
residential centre for pleope addicted to the internet
and videogames
____________
_________________
Make a questions for the underlined words:
The centre. in the coutryside about 50 km
outside seattle. is the idea of therapist
hilarie cash I...I
______________
Point out which conditional is this sentence:
If you have to take a quick break from reading I...I
then the good news is that help it as hand I...I
_________
Turn into the passive voice:
She recorded her first case of cybespace addicion
in 1994
Make a questions for the underlined words:
The centre. in the coutryside about 50 km
outside seattle. is the idea of therapist
hilarie cash I...I
______________
Point out which conditional is this sentence:
If you have to take a quick break from reading I...I
then the good news is that help it as hand I...I
_________
Turn into the passive voice:
She recorded her first case of cybespace addicion
in 1994
EXERCISE 8
Modal verbs: possibility. obligation.ability?
if you have ti take a quick break from reading...;
I...I where internet addict cand find help:
Modal verbs: possibility. obligation.ability?
if you have ti take a quick break from reading...;
I...I where internet addict cand find help:
EXERCISE 9
Write a composition of about 100-120 word one of these topics.
a) Which are the advantages of the use of the internet in edicacion?
Write a composition of about 100-120 word one of these topics.
a) Which are the advantages of the use of the internet in edicacion?
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5. A
6. B
La ultima de las 100 a 120 palabras si esta bien larga y las palabras para subrayar no se cuales son exactamente
5. A
6. B
La ultima de las 100 a 120 palabras si esta bien larga y las palabras para subrayar no se cuales son exactamente
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