hello everyone! welcome to my channel
I am Dori, I am a teacher of English and today's
video is another request video. Lots of you
face problems with Not Given tasks and
not only one but lots of you have asked me for further help
in these tasks, so, I decided to make a
"part 2" of "NG confusion" video
by showing you a paragraph of a text
this time. This video is based on the previous video
the "NG confusion" video so If you haven't watched that video may be you should check it out
first
over here in this link! Also,
the good news is that in "not given" tasks
Bear in mind that the order of the statements
is going to be the same with the order
of the text. So, at least you know more or less where
to search-where in the text to search-
for the answer. Ok, here we go! Ok, this is a paragraph
taken from a text talking about online gaming addiction
So, we will use this paragraph as we would a whole text
for convenience. So, we have done our skimming in the text and our underlining
as you can see our underlining of keywords
that we think are important is in blue so we move on straight
to the statements! So, let's read the first one over here
Statement no. 1: "Teenage girls
are not interested in online gaming
at all. Ok, since we know that statements follow the order
of the text we will find this answer at the beginning so we read a little bit
at the beginning
"Online gaming-here-online gaming
is the new addiction of our modern times and targets
mainly teenage boys. Ask 100 teenage boys what will make them happy
and the majority would answer playing online video games all
day. Okay what do you think it is
T/ F or Not Given? Have a guess!
Okay, it is "Not Given" actually, so the text
doesn't say that girls are not interested
at all-we don't know that. It says that it is mainly boys
the majority is boys but we don't know anything about girls
they may be interested-some of them at least-some of them maybe not but we
don't
know it. The text doesn't say anything about that so, it is
Not Given. Let's go to the next statement
online gaming is the most
dangerous addiction. As you see, we've already underlined the word dangerous
in the text over here
So, it helps us locate the answer
a bit easier. So, let's read this section and only this section
a little bit more carefully. So, here we go: "Scientists
claim that online gaming addiction is nearly as dangerous
as a drug addiction and has consequences of its own both in the social
and the psychological life of
the teenagers. So, what is it? T/ F or Not Given?
It is False. It says,
it is dangerous but not as dangerous as drug addiction
not yet. They are close but not as dangerous
It is NEARLY as dangerous as taking drugs.
it cannot be true because it is not the most
dangerous addiction-there's still drug addiction
it cannot be"not given" because the text
clearly states that it is not as dangerous
So, it is false. Okay let's move on to the third statement
"Online gaming addiction-here we are-
results in social and psychological problems"
Okay sometimes if you're very good at skimming and underlining words
you will instantly know the answer sometimes without even reading the
section
but let's go to the text and we will find the answer after the previous one
because we've already underlined important key-words, such as social,
psychological,and consequences
so we read "online gaming addiction is nearly as dangerous and has
consequences of its own both in the social
and the psychological life of a teenager." So,
What is it? okay, it is True.
the consequences of this addiction are both social and psychological in nature
and now let's move on to the last one. "Teenagers
that quit school due to gaming addiction
do not care about a career."
Ok, sometimes
you may underline key-words that aren't going to help you because you
don't know beforehand the statements, ok?
But it doesn't matter I don't want you to be confused by that
Still, they're going to help you a little bit to locate answers
okay we know that we're going to find the answer of this statement
at the end of the text more or less
So, let's read the last section a little bit better
"there were always students that dropped out of school because they didn't like it
and they weren't interested in a future career but
nowadays dropping out of school is clearly
correlated with the amount of hours teenagers play
each day and with the absence of social activities outside school."
okay what do you think it is? T/ F or Not Given?
okay and those of you who answered "Not Given" are right
Why? Because it doesn't say anywhere
that teens that suffer from gaming addiction
don't care about a future career this is True
only for children that quit school because they don't like it
but we don't know about gaming teens
it may be true for some of them but we don't know anything about it
it is not stated some may be interested in a career
too, we just don't know it. So, it
is "Not Given".
okay, I hope that this small task helps you
a little bit more because you see what the text actually says.
Now, a fellow English teacher from Russia
has found; has created a technique of his own
in order to conquer NG confusion
and he shares his
technique based on his teaching experience in his
video over here I will give you the link to go and check it out in case you
need further help. I think it is a very helpful technique
and I have also put the link to this video in the description box down below.
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