## Step 1 - Speaking

Let’s think about what society actually means.
Write down the topics that you think that ‘society’ includes.

air travel | buying and selling
bands, tribes, groups with a common interest | the environment
how a group of people eat, and what they eat | what people wear

Compare your answers with your partner, and give reasons for your answers.
Add one more aspect that society includes, and one aspect that society doesn’t include.

Look at the following items. Write down the items that you have.

clothes | phone | food
decor | sense of smell | laptop
passport | internet access | cosmetics

Imagine that you are allowed to keep only two of the above items.
Which two would you choose? Write down your items and reasons.
Share your ideas with your partner.

Now read this extract.

Given a list of things (including cosmetics, their car, their passport, their phone and their sense of smell) and told they could only save two, 53% of those aged 16-22 and 48% of those aged 23-30 would give up their own sense of smell if it meant they could keep an item of technology (most often their phone or laptop). We all know how important technology is to our people, but a willingness to sacrifice one of their human senses to keep it shows just how intrinsic it has become. Perhaps it's not all that surprising when you consider that technology represents all the friends you could ever want, all the knowledge you will ever need, and all the entertainment you could desire. For your people, technology is more than a useful tool or an enabler. It is truly their fifth sense. Source: https://www.scribd.com/doc

Discuss the next question.

- Why do you think older people might be shocked at this report?

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