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Task 1. Imagine that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text to your friend. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, then be ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 1.5 minutes to read it.

Social media is not just a technology for communicating or entertainment. It’s now a place where we spend our time. For some people, such as those living away from their family, it can become the main place where they live. Three billion people, around 40% of the world’s population, use online social media. We spend an average of two hours every day sharing, liking, tweeting and updating on these platforms, according to some reports. It’s entertaining to scroll through memes, photos, and life updates from the people we’ve met throughout our life, but we often fail to understand how impactful daily social media use can be.

As with food, gambling and many other temptations of the modern age, excessive use for some individuals is probably inadvisable. But at the same time, it would be wrong to say social media is a universally bad thing, because clearly it brings myriad benefits to our lives.