Activity 3
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Practice:
Ask your students to read the text and explain how this text is different from the more traditional forms of paper-based writing.
(Before asking them to fulfil this task introduce them with some useful information below the text).
cato: hi buddy!!! :-)
regent: hiya, wassup?
cato: I been working SOOOO HARD!
regent: did you know that your warning level is 0%?
cato: well when i was on with julia she gave me a 20% warning
regent: what does it mean?
cato: if someone misbehaves you cna sene them a warning
cato: ty it—pretend I said a rude word
regent: For tea i'm having toad int hole with cabbage
cato: yum yum you really know how to live well
regent: you just said a rude word you naughty thing
cato:> what—yum yum?
regent: no you said to pretend you had said a naughty word so i did
cato: durrr!
regent: ok how do you do it
cato: click on the warn button
cato: have you died or something?
regent: all right hold your horses stop rushing me
cato: sorry ;-)
regent: SLOW DOWN
cato: ok, *slow*
regent: sloooooooow dn
cato: *sssslllloooowwww*
...
regent: bye bye everyone, bye bye
cato: tarrra luv!
regent: good init?
cato: yeh hehehe
cato: try a smiley before you go
regent: i’m off—how do you do smiley
cato: do a colon dash and right bracket then return
regent: :-)
cato: hoorah!
regent: amazing
regent: silly tune aint it
cato: you can go now you passed the smiley test
regent: bye
cato: byyyeeee
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Some useful information
1) ‘cato’ and ‘regent’ are the log-in names of the participants. These names are
sometimes referred to as ‘nicks’.
2) In the particular chat facility being used, participants can store a list of their friends.
This list is called a ‘buddy’ list.
3) When participants are referring to the ‘warn button’, they are talking about a button
by which participants can send each other ‘warnings’, if they use offensive
language. For each warning, the offender in question carries a warning level,
expressed in the form of a percentage on their screen. When the person reaches
100%, he or she is ‘bounced’ automatically from the room.
4) Every time a participant sends a message to the screen, the software produces a
‘clanging’ noise.
5) The chat-log has been edited (at the point where…occurs) for reasons of space.
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To give the opportunity for analyzing situations
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Pair work
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20 min
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