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THE MEDIA

Chua Boon Huat & Lee Ching
Yong

TABLE OF 01 EDITOR’S NOTE
CONTENTS 02
03 Note from the editor

LET’S READ

Something interesting about The Media

POETRY TIME

Immerse in the literature

04 GRAMMAR IN ACTION
Statistics is a grammar of science

05 IDIOMS IN ACTION
Learn some rarely used idioms

06 LANGUAGE GAME
Let’s play a game to kill boredom!

TABLE OF 07 RIDDLES
CONTENTS 08
09 Try some brain-cracking riddles

ANSWERS

Check through your answers

THANK YOU NOTE

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EDITOR’S NOTE

Hi readers! Hopefully you are being
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fascinating topic—The Media. We hope you
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The editors,
Chua Boon Huat & Lee Ching Yong

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LET’S READ!

Let’s read something interesting!

The Dangerous Link between Likes,Followers,and Your Child’s Self-Esteem

Kids have always looked to their peers for validation and self
worth, especially teens and tweens. That’s nothing new. But in
today’s social media-obsessed culture, it’s easy for young
people to become overly fixated on their online popularity.
Instead of gauging their popularity by the number of friends
they have in real life, adolescents are increasingly evaluating
their social status and self-image by the number of people who
follow them on Twitter or "like" their selfies on Instagram.

The Danger of An Online Popularity Contest
The pressure to be popular can be hard enough on
adolescents, but when the popularity contest moves from high
school hallways to social media networks, it can be downright
overwhelming. Tweens and teens may become stressed,
anxious, and even depressed as they spend more and more
time crafting their online identities in order to gain favour from
other social media users. Social media peer pressure can
cause young people to post risqué pictures including revealing
selfies and/or party pics in an effort to be liked online.
Unfortunately, this strategy often backfires and sometimes with
devastating results.

The Dangerous Link between Likes,Followers,and Your Child’s Self-Esteem

The Trouble With Online Friendships
Research suggests that teens are relying more on social media
for emotional support than traditional sources of
encouragement such as a face-to-face conversation or a
phone call with a friend. The problem with this trend is two-fold.
First, social media has made it more challenging for parents to
keep up with their kids’ peer groups, and secondly, it appears
that online friendships can be even more influential than their
real-life relationships, making digital peer pressure a real
concern.

QUESTION

1)According to the article,who do children look to validation?
(A)Their parents (B)Other children
(C)Their Idol

2)It’s easy for young people to become overly_______ their online popularity
(A)obsessed about (B)worried about
(C)careless about

3)They value virtual friends more than real friends (TRUE/FALSE)

4)Social media peer pressure can cause young people to post _______
(A)Potentially funny photos (B)intimate photos
(C)risque photos

5)It appear that real life relationships can be even more influential than their
online friendships (TRUE/FALSE)

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POETRY TIME

Let’s immerse in the literary world!

NOMOPHOBIA: X IS THE SUM OF EVERYTHING

DIGITAL

If an enemy We’d anxiously grasp Living has
Wanted to bring For our phones Come down to
America to its knees 193 times Interacting
It would only Per day More with
need to disable our And be overwhelmed An apathetic
Mobile devices With Tiny Computer chip
The fear of missing out Than with people
The sun would rise 193 times Who likely care
And before we could More about us
pandiculate We’d have to Than our data
We’d compulsively Interact with Mining potential
Reach for our People
Cellphones Face to face —Brachymindset
And the screen would We’d have to
Be as blank as our Communicate
Blank stares With those
We actually
Know

1. Who is the writer of the poem?
2. What is the meaning of Nomophobia?
3. Why disable mobile devices can bring America to its knees?
4. What is the behind meaning of ‘193 times’ ?
5. How do you help your friend with nomophobia?

04

Grammar in action

A Philosopher once said “Half of good
philosophy is good grammar.”

16 Tenses



05

IDIOMS IN ACTION

Let’s learn some rarely used idioms!

To give sb the cold shoulder

To treat somebody in an
unfriendly manner

Example:
I thought she really liked me,
but the next day she gave
me the cold shoulder.

Taste of their own medicine

To treat someone as badly as they have
treated you

Example:
Don’t be rude to others. You won’t like it
when you get at taste of your own
medicine.

A blessing in disguise

something that seems bad or unlucky at first, but
results in something good happening later

Example:
Losing that job was a blessing in disguise
really.

It takes two to tango

said when you want to
emphasize that both people
involved in a difficult situation
must accept the blame, or that
an activity needs two people
who are willing to take part for
it to happen:

Examples：

She may want to argue, but it
takes two to tango and I won't
stoop to her level.

Cat got your tongue

Used to ask someone when he/she is not saying
anything

Example:
What’s the matter? Has the cat got your tongue?

06

LANGUAGE GAMES

Let’s play a game to kill boredom!

WORD SEARCH



07

RIDDLES

Try some brain-cracking riddles!

01

How can a pants pocket be
empty and still have something

in it?

02

A man was born in 1995.
Today he’s 33 years old.

How is this possible?

03

In 1990, a person is 15 years old.

In 1995, that same person is 10
years old.

How can this be?

04

My mother is a chemist and my
father is a mathematician.

They gave me the nickname
Iron59.

What is my real name?

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ANSWERS

Check through your answers!

ANSWERS

Comprehension Text - Let’s Read!:
1)B
2)A
3)True
4)C
5)False

Poem - Poetry Time:
1)Branchymindset
2)The fear of/anxiety caused by,not having a working mobile phone
3)Most of the Americans are heavily using their mobile devices
4)In numerology, 193 means basic of growth and future. People with
nomophobia are holding their mobile devices as they are holding
their future.
5)(Accept reasonable answers)

ANSWER

Answer

Riddles :-
1)There’s a hole in empty pocket
2)1995 was actually the room number in the hospital, not the
year he was born.
3)The person was born in 2005 B.C.Therefore he was 10 in 1995
B.C. and 15 in 1990 B.C.
4)My real name is Felix, In the periodic table, Iron is Fe(chemical
symbol) and LIX are the Roman numerals for 59.

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THANK YOU
NOTE

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