## Step 2 - Listening

Society has also to do with thinking about your own beliefs and values about possession and ownership.
In this step you are going to listen to a conversation between two students in two parts.

#### Now listen to Part 1

In a conversation two students doing the same task.

- Which two items do they choose, and why?

Listen to the conversation and answer this question.

#### Listen to Part 2 of the conversation.

After listening you are going to answer these questions:

- Which generation groups are mentioned?
- What reason do they give for Baby boomers choosing food and clothes?
- Another characteristic of modern times is given: what is it?

Now read this extract of the text Technology as a fifth sense.

#### Technology as a Fifth Sense

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 young 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 young people, technology is more than a useful tool or an enabler. It is truly their fifth sense.