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    Listening: The Filter Bubble – part one – exercises

    Listen to the speaker talking about a book called The Filter Bubble and do the exercises to practise and
    improve your listening skills.

    Preparation
    Complete the sentences with a word from the box.

    support interact log on click on

    download keep track appears monitor

    1. You need to _______________ to connect to a specific computer system.

    2. You can _______________ some programs onto your computer for free.

    3. Cookies _______________ of how you use websites.

    4. On social media you can easily see updates about the political party you _______________.

    5. The police can _______________ a criminal’s activity on the internet.

    6. Personalised information _______________ in your newsfeed.

    7. If you _______________ the link you get taken to another website.

    8. I don’t _______________ with many people on the site.

    1. Check your understanding: true or false


    Circle True or False for these sentences.

    1. Everybody sees the same adverts when they are online. True False

    2. Websites and apps sometimes monitor the way we use them. True False

    3. A cookie can track your habits on a website. True False

    4. The speaker wrote a book called The Filter Bubble. True False

    5. The speaker tells us which political party she supports. True False

    6. The speaker clicks more frequently on friends with the same ideas. True False

    7. Some of the speaker’s friends had left the social media site. True False

    8. A website can decide which information you want to see. True False
    Listening: The Filter Bubble – part one – exercises

    2. Check your understanding: matching


    Match the two sentence halves and write a–f next to the numbers 1–6.

    1…….. The adverts you see a. can work out what we like.

    2…….. Internet browsers b. move around a website.

    3…….. Cookies keep track of how you c. are not random.

    4…….. The filter bubble d. were hidden from her.

    5…….. The speaker e. is like an ecosystem.

    6…….. Some of the writer’s friends’ posts f. noticed strange things on her newsfeed.

    Discussion

    Have you noticed what kinds of adverts and information appear when you’re online?

    Are you happy with this?

    Vocabulary Box Write any new words you have learned in this lesson.

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