Unit-4 - Media For Information And Reflection - Social Media - Reading Comprehension - Question Answers and Text Book Exercise Unit 4.1

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Unit-4 - Media For Information And Reflection
Reading Comprehension
Social Media
English For Class X (2022 and Onward

Question Answers

Q,1: How has social media revolutionized the concept of communication?
Ans: Social media has, undoubtedly , revolutionized the concept of communication in numerous ways .Providing the ease of connectivity is one of the biggest contribution . Whether it be business purpose or family communication has become simpler, quicker and easy . Communication to the distant relatives can be done without hindrance . Skills and talents can also be communicated through social media . Business dealings and communication do not consume time now. In short any one from any part of world can be contacted easily The world has truly become a global village due to the revolution social media has brought in communication.

Q.2: How is social media assisting students and professionals in their respective fields?
Ans: Social media is also assisting the students and professionals. It has opened new vistas for them . The professionals can easily and quickly interact with their counterparts in any part of the world and exchange their views on matters of mutual interests. More over the professionals can be benefited by get the guidelines, ideas and views about specific task on social media.
The students can easily interact with teachers and researchers in any part of the world. They can easily gain knowledge on any topic. They can also be benefited by on line lectures and notes from different platforms.

Q.3: How can a business be initiated on a virtual platform?
Ans: Social media has remarkably made initiating a virtual business very easy . A business can be initiated through the touch of a button . Businessmen can post and advertise their products and invite the buyers from anywhere in the world . They can interact with their customers on case to case basis and readily respond to their queries, comments and can fulfill their needs.

Q.4: How can employers hunt the right candidates for their job positions?
Ans: Social Media has also given the opportunity to the skilled and talented persons to promote their skills, talents and capabilities in a very effective way . This in turn gives an easy access to the employers and enable them to hunt for the right candidate for any particular job position .The employers can also advertise for any vacant post through their social media pages and invite the applications on line . This helps the employers to short list the right candidate and hence saves time as well.

Q.5: Why can people easily have a constant connection with relatives in distant parts of the world?
Ans: People can easily have a constant connection with relatives in distant parts of the world through social media .Gone are the days when going of a near one abroad meant the loss of touch and lack of communication. Social media has not only contributed to maintain a constant connection with the distant relatives and friends but has also enabled to establish contact with lost friends . It has played a vital role in strengthening the bond of love and care among the family members by keeping communication easy and alive.

Q.6: How is social media affecting the relationship of people?
Ans: Social Media has affected the relationship of people very badly . Man is a social animal and for the strengthening of social bond physical sharing of moments of joy and grief is important . Increased screen time has decreased face to face communication. Relationships are compromised as people are spending more time on social media. Good wishes and condolences are sent through social media now which has compromised personal visits in moments of grief and joy. The social media has weakens the relationships.

Q.7: How has social media affected you and your family?
Ans: Social media has affected me positively and negatively in numerous ways.

• It has helped me a lot in my studies and improving my writing skills.
• I can easily understand any difficult topic through lectures available on you tube. I can remain in contact with my teachers as well.
• But on the other hand it has made me very lazy . My sitting time has increased. Addiction to on line games has reduced my physical activity.
• As a whole our family time has been compromised. Everyone keeps watching things of their own interests on social media.
• Face to face communication has been reduced to a great extent.

Q.8: What are the benefits you have gained from social media?
Ans: I have gained a lot of benefits from social media like:

• Participation in training, exchange programs, competitions, social community service programs.
• I have improved my skills of digital marketing.
• I am improving my study skills as well.

By Mrs. Ayesha Arif
(Jauhar Progressive School)

Text Book Exercise
Unit 4.1
READING COMPREHENSION

PRE-READING

1. Look at the picture and guess what you are going to read about.

Ans: The picture shows that we are going to read about social media.

2. Do you know what is meant by social media?
Ans: Yes, Social media is a collective term for websites and applications that focus on communication. They are refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, or exchange information and ideas in virtual networks. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Whatsapp etc are some social media applications or websites on internet.

3. Do you think that social media is a good thing or a bad thing?
Ans: There are both positive and negative impacts of social media on society as well as on individual and their communities and businesses. So Social media is both good and bad depend on its use.

EXERCISE 1

Work individually and circle one of the options to fill the blanks. After completing the exercise, compare your answer with your partner.
1. According to text, social media is a ______.
a) Good things
b) bad things
c) neither
d) both (a) & (b) ✔

2. The social media is something that is used by ____.
a) Old people
b) young people
c) people of all ages ✔
d) children

3. In conclusion , the writer says that the social media should be:
a) Ignored
b) used with care ✔
c) given up
d) used everyday

EXERCISE 2

Work in pair. Read the text and underline the following words. the meaning of all these words are given in the exercise below. Find out the word which has the given meaning and fill in the blanks.

revolutionized, stupendous, vistas, fantasy, accessibility, injudicious, tardy, detrimental, fraudulent, materialize, deterioration, consequences, disproportionately, addictive, obesity, devasting, mitigated, self-portrayal, inconvenience, prudent

1. The meaning of detrimental is harmful
2. The meaning of deterioration is slowly becoming worse
3. The meaning of stupendous is extremely great
4. The meaning of inconvenience is trouble
5. The meaning of obesity is being over weight
6. The meaning of materialize is happen or take shape
7. The meaning of prudent is caring for the future
8. The meaning of tardy is late submitted
9. The meaning of Revolutionized is changed completely.
10. The meaning of disproportionately is not in the right amount
11. The meaning of self-portrayal is showing off oneself
12. The meaning of addictive is habit -forming
13. The meaning of accessibility is easy to reach.
14. The meaning of fraudulent is dishonest, cheating
15. The meaning of vistas is prospectus.
16. The meaning of Consequences is negative results.
17. The meaning of devasting is highly damaging
18. The meaning of injudicious is unwise.
19. The meaning of fantasy is imagining of impossible things
20. The meaning of mitigated is made less severe

EXERCISE 3

Work individually. Skim through the text and identify the paragraphs that give the following information. Write the paragraph number in the given blanks. After completing compare your answer with your partner and make corrections where necessary:

1. Lack of quality communication. 5
2. Promotion and identification of skills and talents. 4
3. Basic rules for minimizing the harmful effects. 12
4. Becoming a part of global community. 2
5. Impact on mental health. 10
6. Using the social media prudently. 13
7. Advent of the internet and social media. 1
8. Psychological disorders. 11
9. Negative impact on studies. 6
10. Effects on physical health. 9
11. Use of the social media for business purposes. 3
12. Fraudulent companies cheating people. 7
13. Connecting friends and families. 8

EXERCISE 4

Read the text and mark the statements as true or false. After completing, compare your answers with your partner.

S.NO.	Statement	True	False
1.	The social media has not affected the world in any major way.	-	False
2.	Some vendors on the social media cheat their customers.	True	-
3.	Use of the social media does not have any disadvantage.	-	False
4.	Professionals do not use the social media.	-	False
5.	Increase in the use of the social media has affected relationships adversely.	True	-
6.	Students can contact teachers from nay part of the world and learn from them.	True	-
7.	People use the social media to showcase and promote their talents and skills.	True	-
8.	Employers do not use the social media to look for people whom they want to hire..	-	False
9.	Disproportionate use of the media has devastating effects on physical health.	True	-
10.	A careless user can get the benefits from the positive aspects of the social media.	-	False

EXERCISE 5

The following sentences have wrong information. Work in pairs. Read the text and write the corrected sentence in space provided.
1. With the social media , one has become a part of the regional community.
Correct Sentence: With the social media , one has become a part of the global community.

2. The speed with which the social media users are increasing is slow.
Correct Sentence: The speed with which the social media users are increasing is stupendous.

3. The extended family members are not important in the Pakistani family structure.
Correct Sentence: The extended and immediate family members are not important in the Pakistani family structure.

4. The social media is a major cause of weakness in children and teen agers.
Correct Sentence: The social media is a major cause of obesity in children and teen agers.

5. Rumors travel very slowly on the social media.
Correct Sentence: Rumors travel very fast on the social media.

6. Posting selfies can lead to physical disorders.
Correct Sentence: Posting selfies can lead to psychological disorders.

7. Using the social media has neither pros nor cons.
Correct Sentence: Using the social media has both pros and cons.

8. One needs to see how one can maximize the harmless effects of the social media.
Correct Sentence: One needs to see how one can maximize the harmless effects of the social media.

9. The ills of the social media can be reduced by following all the rules.
Correct Sentence: The ills of the social media can be reduced by following certain rules.

10. Giving up the social media may be the only option we have today.
Correct Sentence: Giving up the social media may not be a realistic option we have today.

EXERCISE 6

Work in pairs, read the text and write down the positive aspects and negative aspects of the social media with respect to the following. Also write down what needs to be done to reduce the negative impact, as stated in the text.
BUSINESS:
Positive Aspect: Post their products and invite buyers, readily respond to customers queries.
Negative Aspects: Misuse by fraudulent companies.
Reducing negative impact: One should be discreet when selecting on line products or responding to online offers of job and opportunities.

STUDENTS:
Positive Aspect: Interaction with researchers and educators any where, online lectures.
Negative Aspects: Incomplete school assignments, tardy work and poor academics.
Reducing negative impact: Careful use of social media by following basic rules.

COMMUNICATION WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS:
Positive Aspect: Constant connection with distant relatives , strengthening of bond of love and care.
Negative Aspects: Deterioration in frequency and quality of face to face communication.
Reducing negative impact: Spend less time on social media and give priority to close ones.

PROMOTIONS OF SKILLS AND TALENTS:
Positive Aspect: effective advertisement of skills and capabilities.
Negative Aspects: may get cheated by companies or may face physical harm by going to fake interviews.
Reducing negative impact: care should be focused while sharing personal data with any one.

EXERCISE 7

Answer the following questions:
Ans: See above in Question & Answers section - Q.1 - Q.6

EXERCISE 8

Work in groups of four. Ask each other the following questions and write down the responses. Try and give a different response to each member of a group.
Ans: See above in Question & Answers section - Q.7 - Q.8