{"id":2211,"date":"2015-11-04T15:52:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T15:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.lycee.nl\/?page_id=2211"},"modified":"2015-11-04T15:52:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T15:52:45","slug":"2211-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/?page_id=2211","title":{"rendered":"Essay writing: Has new technology had a positive or negative influence on our lives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"site-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"quizbody\">\n<div class=\"sixtyEight\">\n<div class=\"Titles\">\n<h2 class=\"ExerciseTitle\"><\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"ExerciseSubtitle\">Gap-fill exercise<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eltbase.com\/quiz\/056_01.htm\">http:\/\/www.eltbase.com\/quiz\/056_01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"InstructionsDiv\" class=\"StdDiv\">\n<div id=\"Instructions\">Fill in all the gaps, then press &#8220;Check&#8221; to check your answers. Use the &#8220;Hint&#8221; button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the &#8220;[?]&#8221; button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"MainDiv\" class=\"StdDiv\">\n<div id=\"ClozeDiv\">\n<form id=\"Cloze\" action=\"http:\/\/www.eltbase.com\/quiz\/056_01.htm\" method=\"post\">\n<div class=\"ClozeBody\">\n<p>Few people would <span id=\"GapSpan0\" class=\"GapSpan\"><input id=\"Gap0\" class=\"GapBox\" size=\"7\" type=\"text\" \/><button class=\"FuncButton\">[?]<\/button><\/span> the fact that new technology has had an enormous influence on our lives in recent years. Personal computers, the Internet and mobile phones have changed the way we work, spend our leisure time and interact with each other. In my <span id=\"GapSpan1\" class=\"GapSpan\"><input id=\"Gap1\" class=\"GapBox\" size=\"6\" type=\"text\" \/><button class=\"FuncButton\">[?]<\/button><\/span> the advantages far <span id=\"GapSpan2\" class=\"GapSpan\"><input id=\"Gap2\" class=\"GapBox\" size=\"8\" type=\"text\" \/><button class=\"FuncButton\">[?]<\/button><\/span> any disadvantages.<\/p>\n<p>In schools and workplaces around the world, computers have opened up the great store of human knowledge, usually at very little cost to the user. If you want to research a school assignment or a business opportunity, the Internet is your starting point.<\/p>\n<p>At home, <span id=\"GapSpan3\" class=\"GapSpan\"><input id=\"Gap3\" class=\"GapBox\" size=\"8\" type=\"text\" \/><button class=\"FuncButton\">[?]<\/button><\/span>, we can use computers as a valuable source of information. <span id=\"GapSpan4\" class=\"GapSpan\"><input id=\"Gap4\" class=\"GapBox\" size=\"7\" type=\"text\" \/><button class=\"FuncButton\">[?]<\/button><\/span> we are trying to decide where to go on holiday, which new washing machine to buy or where to go for dinner, the answers can be found without leaving the house.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile phone has also revolutionized the way we organize our lives. Meeting up with friends, clients and colleagues can all be done more easily and efficiently. If you are going to be late for a meeting, want to make a last-minute change in your meeting arrangements or even if you get lost, help is in your pocket with your mobile.<br \/>\nInformation technology can save lives and help us avoid danger too. If you slip and fall while hiking, you can use your phone to call the emergency services while parents can allow their children to go out secure in the knowledge that they can call them at any time.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, not everyone is convinced of the benefits of technology. Some <span id=\"GapSpan5\" class=\"GapSpan\"><input id=\"Gap5\" class=\"GapBox\" size=\"6\" type=\"text\" \/><button class=\"FuncButton\">[?]<\/button><\/span> that our communication skills will suffer. <span id=\"GapSpan6\" class=\"GapSpan\"><input id=\"Gap6\" class=\"GapBox\" size=\"7\" type=\"text\" \/><button class=\"FuncButton\">[?]<\/button><\/span>, I would argue that our communication skills are actually improving as people are communicating with more people and in a greater of variety of ways than previously. In the past, we spoke face-to-face, talked on the phone, or wrote letters. Today we still do all these things, but we also email each other, text each other, take part in chat conversations and contribute to Internet forums. If you are concerned that you are losing the ability to communicate face-to-face, then ask yourself a simple question: over the past twenty four hours, in what way have you communicated with other people the most? The answer will be, of course, through face-to-face conversation.<\/p>\n<p>There can be no <span id=\"GapSpan7\" class=\"GapSpan\"><input id=\"Gap7\" class=\"GapBox\" size=\"6\" type=\"text\" \/><button class=\"FuncButton\">[?]<\/button><\/span> that information technology is here to stay and will continue to transform our lives over the next few decades. <span id=\"GapSpan8\" class=\"GapSpan\"><input id=\"Gap8\" class=\"GapBox\" size=\"6\" type=\"text\" \/><button class=\"FuncButton\">[?]<\/button><\/span> there may be some negative effects \u2013 health risks, environmental damage, and even longer working hours &#8211; the way forward is to find ways to make new technology work better for us, not reject it. History shows us that you can\u2019t put the clock back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<p><button id=\"CheckButton2\" class=\"FuncButton\">\u00a0Check\u00a0<\/button> <button class=\"FuncButton\">\u00a0Hint\u00a0<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"resourcePanel\">\n<div id=\"resource\">\n<div class=\"moreResources\"><b>More on this topic&#8230;<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"resourceHead\"><b>gap fill<\/b><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"smaller\">There are no gap fill activities for this language point at present.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><b>Related topic: <i>linkers &#8211; cause and effect<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>quiz<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usingenglish.com\/quizzes\/220.html\" target=\"_blank\"><b>linkers &#8211; &#8216;because&#8217; vs &#8216;because of&#8217; (multiple choice)<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Related topic: <i>linkers &#8211; contrast<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>quiz<\/b><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usingenglish.com\/quizzes\/89.html\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Contrast linkers &#8211; although, though, despite and however<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"smaller\">Three-choice, 13-question multiple choice quiz.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/apps\/ifl\/worldservice\/quiznet\/quizengine?ContentType=text\/html;quiz=136_contrast\" target=\"_blank\"><b>contrast linkers &#8211; short multiple choice test<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"smaller\">Four-choice six question quiz for contrast linkers including linking prepositions.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usingenglish.com\/quizzes\/220.html\" target=\"_blank\"><b>contrast linkers &#8211; &#8216;because&#8217; vs &#8216;because of&#8217; <\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"smaller\">multiple-choice quiz<\/span><\/div>\n<div><b>matching<\/b><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eltbase.com\/quiz\/148_01.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><b>contrast linkers matching exercise<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"smaller\">Join the sentences or clauses containing contrast linking words and phrases.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearer\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.eltbase.com\/quiz\/056_01.htm#sthash.0tRzd2I4.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gap-fill exercise http:\/\/www.eltbase.com\/quiz\/056_01.htm Fill in all the gaps, then press &#8220;Check&#8221; to check your answers. Use the &#8220;Hint&#8221; button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the &#8220;[?]&#8221; button to get a clue. 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