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a Read the passage and underline the new
◆ Mark Zuckerberg is an American words emerged in the digital era according
computer programmer who founded to the text. The first one is given in bold as
one of the most famous social an example.
networking website. You can hear many new words when you listen to
◆ This is a wonderful shop where/ the news. Does a language change? Of course, it
in which you can find various sizes of does because it is like a living organism. The digital
cables. era has added many words to English language or
◆ Vlog is a blog which contains video it added some meanings to the words which have
content. already existed.
◆ 2000 is the year when vlogging Let’s take a look at the new words of English language.
started. Recently, people got used to the idea of blogging,
but now in 2017 a new word vlog is added to the
◆ Did you meet the boy in music class dictionaries. Podcast is also a new word and it means
whose video had 2 million views? to make audio files about a specific topic and share it
with other people. Unfriend (or defriend) is another
example. If you defriend someone, it means that you
3 Work with a partner and make a full remove him/ her from your friend list in social media.
sentence as in the example below. Cybercrime is also a new term. It means the crimes
1. Find the name of the journalist who committed on the Internet such as stealing personal
invented the term podcast. information or infecting a computer with a virus.
Moreover, new meanings are added to some
Ben Hammersley is the journalist who
invented the term podcast. already existing words. For example, in the past
when someone said cookie, just a small cake came
to mind. But today
2. Find the name of the inventor who cookie also refers to a
invented digital camera. computer file. Today
when someone
says avatar,
nobody thinks
of its original
3. Find the year when the first electronic meaning, but
TV was invented. an image of
computer games used to come to
mind. “Trojan horse” is no longer
the wooden, tricky horse of Greeks
in Troy, but a virus.
4. Find the country which has the highest b Match the words stated in the passage with
number of Internet users. the definitions given below.
1. ____________________ is a website where a person
writes regularly about a topic.
2. ____________________ is a website where a person
uploads videos regularly.
5. Find a famous film which is about
technology and the use of social media. 3. ____________________ is a word which means doing
illegal things using the Internet.
4. ________________ ____ is an image which represents
the user especially in video games and
social media.
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