Nomophobia 3SEC

SEP Content: The use of English to express the needs, interests, and problems in the community.Learning: Comparative Adjectives: stronger, funnier, more gratifying, further, better, worse. Superlative Adjectives: the funniest, the most delicious

Reading and listening

Read the two pieces of news and tick the boxes if the articles match the description.

TEXT B

Text A

It has a friendlier language.

It includes more background information on the topic.

It provides more detailed statistics.

It's more helpful because it provides a suguest to test your phone addiction.

A

B

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SEP Content: The use of English to express the needs, interests, and problems in the community.Learning: Comparative Adjectives: stronger, funnier, more gratifying, further, better, worse. Superlative Adjectives: the funniest, the most delicious

Grammar: comparative adjectives

Choose the correct option to complete the sentences.

serious

more serious

seriouser

• Nomophobia is becoming ___________ in teenagers than in children.

• Interacting with others in person is __________ than interacting through a screen.

much

most

more

• People spend ______ time on their phones now than five years ago.

hard

harder

most hard

• Teenagers find it _________ to stop using their phones than adults do.

funnier

funniest

funny

• Talking face to face is __________ than chatting online.

more serious

more

funnier

easier

easy

more easy

easier

harder

SEP Content: The use of English to express the needs, interests, and problems in the community.Learning: Comparative Adjectives: stronger, funnier, more gratifying, further, better, worse. Superlative Adjectives: the funniest, the most delicious

Grammar: superlative adjectives

Choose the correct option to complete the sentences.

Checking your phone every minute is the ______ habit for focusing on school work.

Phone addiction can be the ______ habit to break for some teenagers.

Using phones during meals is the ______ behavior in some families.

For some students, checking their phones during class is the ______ habit.

Nomophobia is the ______ concern for parents in this community.

harder

most

distractingest

worst

disrespectful

greatest

less

hardest

hard

most distracting

distracting

most disrespectful

disrespectfulest

most bad

bad

SEP Content: The use of English to express the needs, interests, and problems in the community.Learning: Comparative Adjectives: stronger, funnier, more gratifying, further, better, worse. Superlative Adjectives: the funniest, the most delicious

Writing

Write about how nomophobia affects your community. Use at least two comparative and two superlative adjectives in every answer.

• Do you think it is becoming a bigger problem?

• How does it compare to other community issues?

• What are the worst effects of nomophobia?

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Superlative adjectives

Superlative adjectives help us compare three or more people, things, or places. When we use a superlative, we are talking about the most or the least of something in a group.

How to form superlative adjectives:

1. Short adjectives (one syllable). Add -est to the adjective.

• Tall ➡️ the tallest
• Small ➡️ the smallest

2. Adjectives with two syllables ending in -y. Change -y to -iest.

• Happy ➡️ the happiest
• Busy ➡️ the busiest

3. Long adjectives (two or more syllables). Use the most before the adjective.

• Beautiful ➡️ the most beautiful
• Intelligent ➡️ the most intelligent

4. Irregular superlatives. Some adjectives have special forms.

• Good ➡️ the best
• Bad ➡️ the worst

According to Common Sense Media, the results of a research revealed some really scary statistics:

• 50% of teens feel they are addicted to their devices.
• 79% check their phones at least hourly.
• 72% feel they need to respond immediately to messages.
• 36% of parents feel they argue with their teens every day about device use.

In other words, many of us could be suffering from nomophobia!“NO MObile PHOne phoBIA” is the fear of not being able to use your cell phone or other smart device. So how do you know if you’re addicted? There’s an online quiz to find out. Why not check it out on your phone!

Text a

Are You Addicted to Your Phone?

A report published in Society Today revealed some alarming statistics about teenage phone addiction. Researchers at Common Sense Media report that:

• Half of today’s teenagers admit to being addicted to their phones.
• Most teenagers feel pressured to respond to messages as soon as they get them.
• More than a third of parents say they argue with their teenage children about device use on a daily basis.

The report confirms widespread fears that the 21st century phenomenon called nomophobia is rising at a worrying rate, especially in today’s teenagers.

Text b

Phone Addiction in Teenagers

Comparative adjectives

We use the comparative form of adjectives to show the differences and similarities between two people or two objects.For adjectives of one syllable, we add -er to the adjective and the word than. If the adjective ends in -y, we change it to i and add -er.

• The cat is smaller than the dog.
• This task is easier than the last one.

For most other adjectives of two syllables and for all adjectives of three syllables or more we use more + adjective + than.

• The computer is more modern than the TV.
• Suspense stories are more interesting than romance stories.

For the adjectives good and bad we use better and worse respectively.

• Dracula is better than Frankenstein.
• Frankenstein is worse than Dracula.