Real Easy English: Talking about phone habits
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What are common phone habits discussed in this episode?
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How does screen time affect our daily lives?
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What role do notifications play in our phone usage?
And I'm Becca. You can find a video version of this podcast along with a transcript to help you learn on our website ppclearningenglish.com. Hi Becca, how are you? I'm well, thanks Neil. How about you? I'm pretty good. Today we're talking about phones. Now, Becca, how much time do you spend on your phone every day? I don't know the number. I haven't checked my screen time in a while. So your screen time is the time in which you spend looking on your phone screen. I probably would guess that I spend quite a few hours looking at my phone. How about you? Yeah, I spend probably a lot of time on my phone every day. And I'm not really happy about that.
What is doom scrolling and how does it impact us?
Because I think it's a waste of time. But I do it like millions of other people. Yeah, I mean, phones can be very useful. You can get information very quickly. Yes, this is true. They are also really handy, of course, for finding out information quickly. And you can do loads of things that used to be quite hard to do. Yeah, one of those things that we can probably do better with phones is to connect with people and to have contact with people. Do you get lots of notifications from your friends and family on your phones? Because I don't like spending too much time on my phone, I turned off my notifications.
How can we reduce our screen time effectively?
Now, notifications are the little messages that you get from apps when people or the app wants to tell you something. OK, so that's a good tip, really, if you want to reduce your screen time is to turn off your notifications. Yeah. I also try not to doom scroll. What's doom scrolling? That's probably how I spend a lot of time on my phone. So when you doom scroll, you look at negative news stories or things that make you feel maybe a bit upset, a bit sad. And you just keep scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. And it really doesn't make you feel good. And so if you do, like you, Becca, a lot of doom scrolling, that could be a sign of an addiction.
What signs indicate phone addiction?
Now, an addiction is something that you can't stop doing. So, for example, an obvious example is smoking. People who smoke, they have an addiction. It's something they have to do. And we hear a lot about phone addiction. And it's really hard to stop an addiction. Even though I know doom scrolling is very bad for me and it doesn't make me feel good, I can't stop doing it. I don't think you're alone, Becca. But do you think most people look at their phone too much? I do. And I think that it doesn't matter how old you are. I see phone addictions with people my age, people younger and people older. I think that a lot of people are addicted to their phones. Yeah. If you just look around anywhere, most people have their head down at that angle, looking at their phone, missing what's going on in the real world.
What vocabulary related to phone habits should we remember?
Yeah. OK, let's recap the vocabulary we learnt in this episode. First, screen time.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What are common phone habits discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:10
2
How does screen time affect our daily lives?
1:10–1:49
3
What role do notifications play in our phone usage?
1:49–2:50
4
What is doom scrolling and how does it impact us?
2:50–3:37
5
How can we reduce our screen time effectively?
3:37–4:33
6
What signs indicate phone addiction?
4:33–5:35
7
What vocabulary related to phone habits should we remember?
5:35–7:12