Students explore the Internet, technological change, innovation, and online security. They compare benefits and challenges and explain how technology affects communication, work, and everyday life.
Practice: Vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, and discussion.
Vocabulary: consequence, access, resourceful, challenge.
Grammar: Show degrees of difference in comparisons with no/not any, a bit, slightly, a lot, considerably, much, and three times.
Word study: Recognize informal spoken forms such as wanna, gonna, kinda, whatcha, hafta, gimme, usta, and supposta.
Reading & speaking: Read about the Internet; discuss its benefits, challenges, and influence on everyday life.