📱Technology, the Internet & Gadgets in English💻Intermediate English Listening Practice

Introduction
hello and welcome to another episode of elephant english podcast in today’s video we’re going to be talking about technology and we’re going to be following some speaking exam questions so that you can practice for your speaking exam and also you can improve your listening skills.

How Technology Has Changed in Your Lifetime

so the first question is talk about how technology has changed in your lifetime well i’m quite young i’m less than 30 years old so Technology at first you might think well not a lot if we think about technology it has even when i was younger mobile phones were used just to send text messages and to make normal phone calls but nowadays you can use your mobile phone to download any type of app you can do online banking on your phone you can control the amount of steps that you have done on your daily run and you can even upload videos and share it with everybody on the internet so i think that this has been one of the biggest changes in technology in my lifetime.

Favorite Technology

the second question is what is your favorite piece of technology you own well my favorite piece of technology that i own is my ipad normally i wouldn’t really have an ipad because when you go and buy a tablet and you see the price difference between an apple product and say a samsung product then you decide to buy the cheaper one because it seems like a lot of money to pay 600 euros or 600 pounds on an ipad but i won my ipad in a competition and i really like it i think the sound quality is really good and the screen is very clear Tablet.

Tablet Usage

and i use it a lot more than i thought that i would i had never had a tablet before and i didn’t really know what you use it for because if you have a mobile phone and you have a laptop you think that you don’t really need a tablet but if you’re going to watch a video on the sofa then it’s much more comfortable to use your ipad or your tablet.

Printers and Future Technology

the next question is what do you thinkwill be the next biggest technologicaladvancei think the next biggest technological advance might be printers i hope it is printed as well because every time that i use a printer there is a problem with it even if it’s an expensive printer so i think that in the future they might be able to design smaller printers with high quality and they are straightforward to use.

Buying Gadgets

the next question is are you fond of buying gadgets no i’m not fond of buying gadgets and i don’t really enjoy the process of buying gadgets because i think if you don’t understand technology and electronics then it’s very difficult to Games compare the products and decide which one is the best.

Playing Games

the fifth question is are you into playing computer games i’m not really into playing computer games i enjoy playing a game on my phone while i’m waiting at the doctors for example but i don’t have a gaming pc or anything like that i do have a wii console that is quite old but i think it’s quite fun when your family or your friends come to visit and you play for half an hour but i don’t enjoy playing computer games on my own in my bedroom for example.

Internet Usage

the next one is do you use the internet much yes i use the internet every day because i use my computer at work every day and i use it at home too.

Internet as a Study Tool

the next one is is the internet a useful tool for studying yes i think it’s one of the best tools for studying because you can find a lot of websites with a lot of information you can use youtube to learn as well and there are also a lot of apps to practice uh the content that you are studying so there are different games and apps that are related to geography and other ones that are related to learning english and there are flash cards and different ways to study so that it doesn’t just feel like you’re studying from a book which can be quite boring really.

Uses of the Internet

what do you use the internet for well apart from work i mostly use the internet for my podcast because i upload them onto youtube but in my free time i use the internet to look up recipes online to watch videos and some vlogs that i like to watch about life in the uk and anything that pops up so if i want to know a random piece of information then i would look it up like for example the other day i looked up how many pigeons are there in the world some things like that that aren’t really necessary to know but they’re quite interesting.

Listening to the Radio

the next question is do you ever listen i do listen to the radio i listen to the radio on my way and on my way back home as well work in the morning i think that it is good to listen to in the car because you don’t have to start choosing what song you want to listen to and because you’re so tired at that time it’s just easier to turn the radio on and listen to the songs that are on there.

Spending Money on Gadgets

the final question is have you ever spent a lot of money on useless gadgets no i haven’t ever spent a lot of money on a useless gadget when i buy a get it i like to think about what i’m going to use it for before i buy it because if not it’s going to be a waste of money.

Outro

one tip that somebody gave me was that if you’re planning on buying something and you don’t know if you should buy it or not then you should wait one month and if after that month you still want to buy it then you should but that is a good way to avoid impulse purchases so in today’s video we’ve talked about technology if you have enjoyed it please press the like button and subscribe to my channel because i’m making quite a lot of these videos i have created a worksheet with activities based on the vocabulary that we have used in this video and you can find that along with the transcript in the description box below thank you and i’ll see you in the next one.