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# Do you have a Facebook account? | # Do you have a Facebook account? | ||
# What do you use it for? | # What do you use it for? | ||
| − | # Do you post often at | + | # Do you post often at Facebook? What kind of information? |
| − | # What's your opinion about the tools given | + | # What's your opinion about the tools given by Facebook? |
| − | # How good are you at using | + | # How good are you at using Facebook as a social media network? |
| − | # What kind of articles do you | + | # What kind of articles do you usually share? |
# What (is/are) the best thing(s) about Facebook? | # What (is/are) the best thing(s) about Facebook? | ||
# How can Facebook help you besides chatting with friends? | # How can Facebook help you besides chatting with friends? | ||
| − | # How relevant | + | # How relevant is Facebook information to you? |
# What kind of posts do you 'like'? | # What kind of posts do you 'like'? | ||
# How often do you check your Facebook account? | # How often do you check your Facebook account? | ||
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| − | We all enjoy sharing opinions, recommendations and links with our friends, because it helps us feel connected | + | We all enjoy sharing opinions, recommendations and links with our friends, because it helps us feel connected to the information that we care about. Did you know that every month more than 25 billion pieces of information are shared on Facebook? And this is how usually works: when someone clicks like, they´re highlighting the things that are valuable to them, and sharing that with their friends. And when all of this goes to your news feed, it’s like you have a real time super customized wonder in the most valuable things on the internet. But we understand that many of the things people care about live outside of facebook, so we want to create a way to bring your friends with you to other websites. So we created social plugins. Social plugins extend the things you love about facebook to your favorite websites. All right so this is how it works: Let’s say you’re logged in to your facebook but you check out a popular new site. It’s kind of a bummer, because before, you’d have to choose between the social experience of facebook or the specialized information of a content site. Ok, now with the website has a social plugin you can take your facebook friends with you and get both. Instead of having to comb page after page or article after article to find something that catches your eye, now you can see what your friends have already enjoyed on this site. And with one click you can share article, video or review with your friends. It’s the content of the web that, with all your friends to share with and to help you sort it out. When you start to see websites that are customized for you all over the internet, you might wonder if everyone else can see it,. But it’s not like that. Although you can see customized information on other sites, all the information lives on facebook and facebook doesn’t share your information with anyone through social plug ads. And each person has full control of what they wanna share. You’re only sharing the information you want to. And you’re only sharing with the people you wanna share with. So if you’re logged in to facebook, you may start to notice more customized and friendly experience on some of your other favorite sites. So just kick back and relax, as you start to have a whole new experience on the web that is designed for you. |
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Latest revision as of 07:59, 27 November 2013
Conversation
Answer the following questions. You might be asked to write them down or answer them out-loud.
- Do you have a Facebook account?
- What do you use it for?
- Do you post often at Facebook? What kind of information?
- What's your opinion about the tools given by Facebook?
- How good are you at using Facebook as a social media network?
- What kind of articles do you usually share?
- What (is/are) the best thing(s) about Facebook?
- How can Facebook help you besides chatting with friends?
- How relevant is Facebook information to you?
- What kind of posts do you 'like'?
- How often do you check your Facebook account?
Vocabulary
Look at the vocabulary below. Take time to explore the links for their definitions in English and their translations to Portuguese. When you are done, make a sentence with each word. Ask your teacher if you should write them down or say them out loud.
Video
Watch the following video but DON'T read the transcript yet.
After watching the video do this listening exercise.
Reading practice
Read the following transcript then do the associated reading comprehension exercise.
We all enjoy sharing opinions, recommendations and links with our friends, because it helps us feel connected to the information that we care about. Did you know that every month more than 25 billion pieces of information are shared on Facebook? And this is how usually works: when someone clicks like, they´re highlighting the things that are valuable to them, and sharing that with their friends. And when all of this goes to your news feed, it’s like you have a real time super customized wonder in the most valuable things on the internet. But we understand that many of the things people care about live outside of facebook, so we want to create a way to bring your friends with you to other websites. So we created social plugins. Social plugins extend the things you love about facebook to your favorite websites. All right so this is how it works: Let’s say you’re logged in to your facebook but you check out a popular new site. It’s kind of a bummer, because before, you’d have to choose between the social experience of facebook or the specialized information of a content site. Ok, now with the website has a social plugin you can take your facebook friends with you and get both. Instead of having to comb page after page or article after article to find something that catches your eye, now you can see what your friends have already enjoyed on this site. And with one click you can share article, video or review with your friends. It’s the content of the web that, with all your friends to share with and to help you sort it out. When you start to see websites that are customized for you all over the internet, you might wonder if everyone else can see it,. But it’s not like that. Although you can see customized information on other sites, all the information lives on facebook and facebook doesn’t share your information with anyone through social plug ads. And each person has full control of what they wanna share. You’re only sharing the information you want to. And you’re only sharing with the people you wanna share with. So if you’re logged in to facebook, you may start to notice more customized and friendly experience on some of your other favorite sites. So just kick back and relax, as you start to have a whole new experience on the web that is designed for you.
Writing practice
Write a couple of paragraphs ---->>>> instructions <<<<-----. Make sure to use words you learned from the text and try to make it as long as you can.