Are you a smartphone addict, or phubber?
Phubber: someone who ignores the person that they are with and only pays attention to their mobile phone
Do you have any bad habits? I think it's hard not to be a smartphone addict nowadays.
What do you think is the worst habit to have?
Do you have any bad habits?
Procrastinate: to keep delaying something that must be done, often because it is unpleasant or boring
Smartphone addiction 🙋: problematic mobile phone use, is a behavioral addiction that leads to distress in one’s life
Shopaholic 🛍 : a person considered to be addicted to shopping
Heavy drinking 🍶🍻🍾: excessive alcohol consumption, which is defined as 8 or more drinks a week for women, 15 or more for men
Overeating 🍔🍟🍕🌭: the action of eating more food than your body needs, especially so that you feel uncomfortably full
Irregular sleep 💤: people with poor sleeping habits who don’t sleep at a regular time, usually stay up very late and do not have enough sleep on a regular basis
Do you think it's easier to get a new habit or change an old one?
Listen to the BBC Talk on Smartphone addiction
What is the talk about?
What is FOMO? Do you have it?
Are you a phubber? Do you know anyone who is a phubber? What advice can you give them to stop this bad habit?
Are teenagers in the US addicted to their mobile phones? Why?
In what year did the term ‘smartphone’ first appear in print?
What are you addicted to?
What type of damage does Jean Twenge feel smartphones are doing to society?
Three words you learned from the talk. Share the sentences with me in class!
↘Comment below which bad habit you have or if you can think of any other ones! Let us know! Tag a friend😋↙