Text 9. Africa Online

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Lead-In

Discuss with your partner.
  1. Which social network(s) do you use the most? Why?
  2. How would people’s lives be different if social media didn’t exist?
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Africa Online

  1. Nowadays, social media plays a  role in everyday life.
  2. The majority of social networks were created in 
  3. In Africa, there are  small local networks available within one particular country.
  4. Global social networks are  in many African countries.

 
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Listen and study the tables below.

Table 1

Do You Remember?
​How are 1.2 billion and 300 million connected with Table 1?

  1. In 2015, one-fourth of Africans were Internet users.
  • True
  • False
  1. Compared to Africa, twice as many people in Europe used the Internet in 2015.
  • True
  • False
  1. In the mid-2010s, the percentage of Internet users in the US was lower than in Europe.
  • True
  • False

Table 2

  • lowest
  • quarter
  • highest
  • twice as many
  • four out of ten
  • third

In 2015, ...

  1. the  percentage of Internet users was in the US.
  2. compared to Tanzania,  people used the Internet in South Africa.
  3. a  of Ghanaians accessed the Internet.
  4.  people in Kenya were Internet users.
  5. almost a  of Senegalese used the Internet.
  6. the  percentage of Internet users was in Ethiopia.

Table 3

Table 4

  1.   three-fourths of Africans used social networks in 2015.
  2. That year, Europe had the  percentage of social network users among the three regions.
  3. The difference in percentage points between Africa and the US  the same as that between the US and Europe.

highest           an equal percentage of
lowest           three quarters

In 2015, ...

  • America
  • Burkina Faso
  • countries
  • higher today
  • in the future
  • individual countries
  • access
  • Africans
  • social networks
  • the US and Europe

People with Internet  in Africa use  more than the same groups in . Most  in Africa have more social media users than . The only exception is .

The survey included information about 12 . More  will be using the Internet . The data in Table 4 cannot be completely trusted because the numbers are already .

  • infor­mation
  • number
  • study
  • region
  • single
  • data
  • quantity
  • research
  • area
  • one

Jane:

Hey! Did you read the homework about the ?

Jackson:

Do you mean the text about ?

Jane:

Yes, the text with all the .

Jackson:

I read it. When I saw the number of people with  to the Net, I was, like, whoa!

Jane:

I’m not into numbers, so I didn’t like that very much. But I am into .

Jackson:

I know, I know ...

Jane:

Please. I only post, like, two times a day. Three tops.

Jackson:

Mm-hmm. Yesterday I read seven messages in InstaOut by MrAnonomo. Seven! And they all came from this .

Jane:

That’s not me!

Jackson:

Mm-hmm.

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Time to Talk

Pairwork 1

A

Discuss the following questions with your partner.
  1. Why do you think so few Africans have access to the Internet compared to Europeans?
  2. Why do you think so few Ethiopians have access to the Internet compared to South Africans?
  3. Why do you think more African than European Internet users use social networks?
  4. Why do you think the number of Internet users in Africa is growing?

B

Ask your partner the following questions. Then your partner answers. Switch roles.
  1. How many hours do you spend using the Internet in a day? How about in a week?
  2. Do you think that you use the Internet too much? Why/Why not?
  3. What do you typically use the Internet for? List at least three things.
  4. Do you think that you will use the Internet less or more in the future? Why?

Pairwork 2

How important are the following things to you and why? Tell your partner in English. Switch roles.
  • access to the Internet
  • social media
  • having a fancy smartphone
  • access to news online
  • contacting people close to you
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