Does technology separate us or bring us closer together Idiom Lesson

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itsuka welcome welcome

Louise I'm glad you're here Miguel I'm

glad you're here or Douglas you are the

first person to be here today

perfect now shot to some welcome I'm

glad you're here today we've got an

interesting topic about technology

technology so I want to know for you in

your life what is your general opinion

do you think technology brings us closer

together or separates us I want to ask

you this question right away today and

then I will give some introduction and

give you a chance to introduce

yourselves I want to know what's your

opinion about today's topic does

technology help our relationships or

hurt them hmm let's talk about it today

we've got people from all over the world

Indonesia Fe from Indonesia great Russia

Razia from Brazil excellent Miguel and

Argentina I'm so glad you're taking time

today

wonderful wonderful oh we've got our

first answer technology breaks all

distances so we have one vote for

technology bringing us closer together

uh-huh

Andre from Brazil's I am from Korea

hello

who da from Algeria I'm glad you are

here live welcome welcome

Tajikistan great Honduras Alice is such

an international group hmm I wonder if

that answers our question today Oh

Douglas says technology was responsible

for how I met my wife so for you you

agree that technology brings us closer

together in the real world

very interesting oh and Vietnam welcome

welcome

oh we've got technology helps us because

we can chat with people in different

countries alright we've got two two for

bringing us closer together

Gustavo says I think technology is sort

of like a double-edged sword beautiful

expression it has pros and cons like

everything else let's talk about this

expression for just a moment a

double-edged sword

a double-edged sword this means if you

have a sword that you are fighting with

rah rah

both sides are sharp so it can cut on

both sides this means that if you say

technology is a double-edged sword it

means that we can see the positives and

the negatives the pros and the cons of a

topic and today technology is definitely

a double-edged sword a double-edged

sword so I want to ask you I want to ask

you do you think people in your country

people in your country use their phones

too much do you think people in your

country use their phones too much in the

u.s. I would say about 50% I think a lot

of people use their phones at dinner

with their family or when they're in a

cafe

a with their friends and maybe this is

the negative side but a lot of people

especially like my parents or the older

generation they don't use technology as

much they're not used to using their

phones everywhere oh we've got lots of

yeses yes yes they don't use it in a

useful way

Oh Sarah that's an important point Oh

90% of people use it Oh Manuel says it's

everywhere yes oh it's so annoying Oh

lots of people say yes that people use

their phones too much hmm Fanny says in

France of course all the time during

dinner when you walk all the time people

are using their phones yes oh how he has

a good point technology binds us even if

we are physically far apart binds us

bind means connects connects us or ties

together it ties us together

I missed a comment earlier I forget who

said it I'm sorry you can remind me

later someone mentioned that their

daughter is studying abroad in Ireland

and they can communicate because of

Technology and I agree that is a

beautiful thing a wonderful thing to be

able to connect when people live far

apart just like today we are connecting

even though we live in completely

different places Oh Julian says I saw a

lot of students using their phone in

class Oh

jihad says even in the bathroom people

are using their phones

oh I understand people are using their

phones all the time oh good for you I

don't use my phone during dinner

wonderful wonderful good for you I think

that's a difficult thing to do but a lot

of people use their phones and we might

say this is an expression we can you

is to talk about bad distractions

sometimes we say using your phone or

using technology is an escape this is

two words an aan and escape ESC a PE

it's an escape and there's a final part

to this expression that we usually don't

say but it is implied implied means we

know that it's there but we don't say it

it means it's an escape from the real

world so people are escaping from maybe

some problems or some difficulties in

their daily life and they are looking at

Facebook or watching YouTube videos

instead of facing their problems facing

their problems means looking at their

problems and trying to deal with them

so that's the negative side the negative

side is that maybe people use phones or

technology as an escape as an escape but

Goran has a good point here he he says

we without using our phones we can't

learn English yes I think that is a

great point nowadays if you have access

to the Internet

there's no excuse you can find English

material anywhere you can find English

material here you can join people on

skype you can connect on Facebook it is

a useful tool for learning about the

world but for close relationships people

close to you physically close to you the

people you live with the people in the

coffee shop people in a restaurant maybe

it's not so good for them Jorge from

Brazil welcome welcome yes I want I want

to know for you do you have any advice

any advice for people who want to use

technology in a good way

so they want to not use technology as an

escape they don't want to use it as an

escape they want to use it to learn

English or to benefit themselves to

limit their time with technology what is

your advice do you have any way that

people can try to limit themselves and

that's a great expression for talking

about difficult things that you want to

stop doing maybe you are eating too much

chocolate or too many sweet things you

say I need to limit we're using this as

a verb I need to limit the amount of

chocolate that I eat I need to limit the

amount of sugar that I eat I need to

limit the time that I spend on devices

or technology oh I have a good point

using a 2g phone this means this means

you have to have no internet on your

phone or it's going to be very slow or

costly oh yes don't rely on the internet

too much sir big things pretty difficult

but like you mentioned we can watch

Vanessa's videos thanks to technology

yes so if you are interested in my

opinion my opinion is similar to what

you mentioned two things one thing is

technology is negative for the people

close to us the people who live in our

household the people who we see often

technology is often negative in those

ways because it takes us away from those

relationships but the people who are far

away like this community like these

YouTube videos it brings us closer

together

because we couldn't communicate without

technology so this is something we have

to balance not easy

completely not easy there is a excellent

piece of advice here that we have from

pop oh I don't know if I said that

correctly but he says when I meet my

friends and ah the first person who uses

their phone has to pay for dinner oh

this is great thing when you meet your

friends the first person who uses their

phone has to pay for dinner very clever

probably a great idea because no one

wants to pay for everyone's dinner Oh

shi Yan says I think people can make a

limit so like a self limit for how much

they use their phones every day I think

that's important

Sarah has a good point about having

other things to do Sarah says they can

fill their extra space in time

with reading or exercises so having

something else to do I think at least

for me I often use my phone or I use the

computer when there is nothing else to

do or I think I think there's nothing

else to do but if I have a project or

I'm interested in going to the park if

there is another activity I won't use my

phone so that's a great point trying to

give yourself other activities other

things you can do and technology is all

around us it's not bad it's not good it

just exists so I hope that you can use

it with a limit and help the people

around you to also use it with a limit

Oh egg lights has a good point I advise

you to use new technology to improve

your English and scientific research

skills

exactly exactly your you can use

technology to be able to

to learn English learn other things this

is the beautiful thing about the

internet we really can learn anything

anything with technology there's almost

no excuse we can learn something about

everything but we need to balance

balance our lives I think in I don't

know the statistics for the US or for

the computer in the US but TV TV in the

US and this is going to be my final

question today TV in the US I think the

average is 5 hours each day watching TV

so this is the average in the u.s. each

household watches TV for 5 hours every

day now for me I don't have a TV

so it's impossible for me to watch TV

for that long every day but a lot of

people are watching TV I was so

surprised I don't know how it's possible

but this is one of the statistics that

people in the u.s. watch TV so much and

I think it's like I mentioned before an

escape and escape so my final question

for you is which one do you think is

better for humans this is a huge

question and also kind of fun is TV or

the computer better for humans oh I'm

curious to hear what you have to say

because this is all technology my my

camera is technology my microphone is

technology there are different kinds of

technology but I'm curious do you think

that TV or the computer are better oh we

have one vote one vote for the computer

oh we have

oh I don't watch TV i watch very little

computer

computer computer Oh computer Oh because

it has TV functions that is very true

nowadays we can use the computer Oh more

for the computer seven eight nine ten

eleven Oh

does anyone I think no one no one would

rather have a TV than a computer the

computer is and this is a great

expression to use for something that you

really use and it's valuable to you the

computer is in valuable invaluable in

valuable as one word the computer is

invaluable this means I can't live

without it there's so many great things

that you can use the computer for that I

can't imagine living without of course I

could live without it but after I

experience the Internet it's hard to go

back to 15 years ago 20 years ago Oh

John says we need to destroy the TV our

TVs are for couch potatoes great

expression oh we've got lots of good

expressions today double-edged sword

couch potato

indispensable invaluable yes you have

got lots of great vocabulary to talk

about technology today in escape things

that you you use to get away from the

real world yes it is indispensable so I

hope that for you today you learned

something through technology we are

using the internet right now incredible

there are people from all over the world

who are connecting together so because

of Technology people around the world

can connect so for me I need to think

about people who are close to me am i

connecting with the people who I see

continuously is the computer or is my

phone separating me from people

live close to me that's a challenge we

have to balance it seems like all of you

as well struggle with similar things but

it's part of modern life there's pros

and cons there's pluses and minuses

there's advantages and disadvantages

it's a double-edged sword yes pretty

difficult well thank you all for talking

to me

about technology through technology it

has been a great conversation I agree

with a lot of your ideas and advice

about technology and how we can use it

positively and how we can try to use it

in a limited way so that it doesn't

become an escape so that we don't become

like Lori said zombies technology

zombies that's a great way to say it

that as you're looking at your phone

your eyes and your brain becomes like a

zombie so let's try to consciously

consciously and this means thinking

about it consciously use technology I'm

so glad that you guys are using it today

to learn English congratulations you

have successfully used technology today

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you and help you to improve your

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communication skills because that is the

purpose I want you to be able to talk

about a wide variety of topics in

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something that we deal with all the time

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