During a conversation with someone, you've probably had to compete for their attention with a technological device and lost. Maybe the person in front of you diverted their attention to their latest ''urgent" notifications. They' ve probably even interrupted your conversation to answer a call, answer a text message, or check their social media.
Clinical psychologist and sociologist Sherry Turkle has conducted extensive research on the subject that she shared in her book Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age(2015). In this book, she stated that teenagers have reduced their empathetic capacity by 40%，as well as their ability to engage in deep conversation, and that cell phones are to blame.
Nowadays, a large part of social and work related interactions occur through electronic means, such as computers, phones, and tablets. Face- to-face conversations have been relegated to the background, and some people even see them as a waste of time. If you have to solve a business problem, you send an email. If you want to ask for forgiveness, you write a text message.
Since facing conflict or emotional situations can generate anxiety, new technologies offer the possibility of reducing some of it. Young people justify using new forms of communication as an easier and faster way to express their thoughts. They say that mobile devices allow them to rewrite what they want to say, correct mistakes, or avoid tense situations that they wouldn't know how to solve in person.
The problem is that screens don't allow us to enjoy one of the most enriching part of conversation: non-verbal language. We miss out on gestures, intonation, looks, and real emotions. This is quite worrying because, according to experts, 70% of communication is non-verbal.
Human interaction has been replaced with “memes" or emoticons. It's even hard for people to maintain deep conversations for extended periods of time. As a result, humans now have a lot of difficulties in managing their emotions, facing difficulties, and carrying out responsibilities. If you don't share content on the Internet, it's like you don't exist. If you don't share your vacation on social media, people may believe that you didn't actually take it or that you didn't enjoy it, Therefore, what you share is a reflection of who you claim to be, but not who you really are.
Under these circumstances, it's harder to empathize with others and put yourself in their shoes to try to understand their emotions and thoughts. The world is becoming purely visual and superficial.
People build and reinforce their connections during face to-face conversations. This is because you can see how the other person feels and listen to their ideas and concerns. You can empathize with them because you can see their joy or suffering with your own eyes.
Deep, personal conversations awaken emotions inside you. They give you a space to open up and vent, to be heard and respected.
1.We can infer from Para.2 that the book.
A.stresses the importance of face to-face conversation
B.explains teenagers' ability to engage in deep conversation
C.analyzes the reasons for competing for others' attention
D.regards face to-face conversation as a waste of time
2.The underlined word ''non—verbal" in Para. 5 probably means
A.foreign B.spoken C.written D.sign
3.The author would agree that social media platforms.
A.promote deep personal conversations
B.help to put yourself in others' shoes
C.don't necessarily show people's true emotions
D.build connections because you can see joys and sorrows of others
An alternative provision academy in Bexley, South East London are seeking to appoint a Learning support Assistant to join their team permanently from September 2019.
Learning Support Assistant
Start-October 2019
Location-Bexley
Salary-Negotiable
Duration-Permanent
A growing number of children and young adults in the UK are being identified as having Special Educational Needs. These developments have led to an increase in the demand for qualified teachers and support staff. You would be working with some of the most vulnerable and complex young people in the community. It is important that you are enthusiastic and have a true passion for special needs as the children respond positively to familiarity and find it difficult to bond with people if there are regular changes in their class.
This alternative provision school caters for secondary aged students with Social, Emotional and Mental Health. The pupils have a range of learning needs but the school aim to instill the desire to learn and make progress and the belief that they can aim high and achieve their goals.
Benefits of working with Special Needs include:
Small class sizes, usually 5- 10 students
A warm and supporting working environment
Ongoing opportunities for CPD (Continued Professional Development)
SEN points added to your salary
Qualified mainstream teachers CAN teach in special needs schools
You will gain a good understanding of SEND and additional needs
Improve your classroom and behavior management
For further information, please do not hesitate on calling and speaking to some of our specialist SEND consultants about how Special Needs could be the new opportunity you' ve been searching for SEN/SUP.
1.As a Learning support Assistant, you are meant to help those with special needs to_______.
A.lead a normal life
B.develop communicating skills
C.fulfill their dreams
D.fit in with others
2.While working as a Learning Support Assistant, _______.
A.you can upgrade your teaching skills
B.you will teach a large number of students
C.you can get promotion to the management quickly.
D.you will face fierce competition from your colleagues
It took about three weeks for me to become mute(哑的). In 2007, I visited a client as a financial adviser and _________a virus. I had a sore throat. My doctor_________me it would soon return to normal.
_________ it got worse. I could no longer make phone calls and started carrying a little whiteboard to write everything down. I tried to work with people I already knew, who were likely to be more_________with me; but explaining financial details to_________investors with marker pen was a big challenge.
At home, my wife and teenage sons_________as best they could. Soon I was using a computer that read out phrases typed into it.
My situation_________when I was offered a tuition-assisted place at lows State University. I_________ myself by accepting a job in the student services office. Forced to_________with people face to face, I started to have fun with computer voices.
In 2010，I read a news story about a waitress who'd had her voice__________with the help of a doctor in Cleveland. It had to be worth a__________. Dr. Milstein__________me to do some vocal(发声的) exercises to stretch the muscles in my neck and to my astonishment I started to make__________.It was the first time I'd heard my voice in three and a half years.
Then I did more exercises, my voice becoming more__________; Milstein asked me to go over to the window and__________the friends across the street. I was afraid at first, __________I damaged my voice, but he kept__________me. Friends at university heard my voice for the first time and even when I was alone, I talked to myself,
I don't regret those years of__________.I spent more time with my boys and had time to__________where I'd gone wrong as a husband and parent. That time__________my rough edges. I prefer who I am now.
1.A.picked up B.touched on C.made out D.brought in
2.A.shocked B.bothered C.convinced D.condemned
3.A.Therefore B.Moreover C.Eventually D.Instead
4.A.casual B.patient C.cautious D.satisfied
5.A.shallow B.potential C.explicit D.stubborn
6.A.withdrew B.resisted C.declined D.adjusted
7.A.worsened B.remained C.brightened D.arose
8.A.challenged B.applauded C.abandoned D.sacrificed
9.A.correspond B.compete C.compare D.communicate
10.A.regained B.controlled C.softened D.modified
11.A.praise B.try C.bonus D.fortune
12.A.instructed B.promised C.allowed D.warned
13.A.comments B.chokes C.sounds D.rhythms
14.A.aggressive B.disgusting C.confident D.unique
15.A.head for B.yell at C.glance down D.drive away
16.A.even if B.as though C.now that D.in case
17.A.dragging B.pulling C.pushing D.kicking
18.A.silence B.enquiry C.twist D.reform
19.A.doubt B.reflect C.classify D.relate
20.A.sharpened B.maintained C.accumulated D.smoothed
—The deadline is approaching and time is running out.
—_______,or we won't complete the project in time.
A.Come off it B.Take your time
C.Step on it D.Start from scratch
The public were expecting the _______ of further details about the accident until thorough investigation.
A.receipt B.release
C.request D.reference
—Tom, the light is still on.
—Sorry, I forgot! I_______ to turn it off now.
A.am going to go B.would go
C.was going D.will go
