Conversación en inglés 2.1: Facebook y la revolución de las redes sociales

Acabamos el ejercicio de listening con una conversación sobre los efectos positivos y negativos de Facebook, y nuestras predicciones para el futuro.

Finalmente, este audio contiene una clase de vocabulario de 5 minutos donde se os enseñarán montones de nuevas expresiones coloquiales. Se llama El vocabulario de Facebook y los medios sociales.

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Fragmento de la transcripción de la conversación

TOM: Hello and welcome to series two of our Real Conversations podcasts. My name is Tom and I’m sitting here with Mark, Hello Mark…
MARK: Hi Tom…
TOM: We’re back in Turó Park in Barcelona, sitting by our favourite lily[1] pond[2], aren’t we?
MARK: Yes, back here again…
TOM: And it’s a beautiful, beautiful park and it’s a beautiful day, at the end of Summer, just coming into Autumn. Today we’re gonna talk all about Facebook and the Social Media[3] Revolution….and that’s because, over the last couple of months, it’s been announced[4] in the media[5] that Facebook has hit the 500 million active user mark[6], and there’s actually 524 million users on Facebook now…
MARK: That’s a huge amount…
TOM: …And what percentage of the world’s population is that approximately?
MARK: Approximately a twelfth or a fourteenth…
TOM: Golly[7], that’s more than…it’s bigger than most countries in the world, isn’t it? Anyway, we’ll start by giving a brief definition of what social media is… And I would say that it is a category of websites that is based on user participation and user generated content[8].

En inglés: Facebook & The Social Media revolution

In this real English audio, we discuss Facebook and the social media revolution, a recent phenomenon that’s been fundamentally changing the way we communicate. We begin by talking about the history and evolution of Social Networks, the origins of which can be traced back to the late 1970s, and move on to discuss modern social networks.

We fill our discussion with interesting statistics on current user numbers of various networks in Europe, Latin America and the world, and then we focus on the origins and phenomenal growth of Facebook in the last few years. This section also includes some interesting ‘trivia’ and random facts you probably didn’t know…!

We finish off the listening exercise with a discussion on some of the positive and negative effects of Facebook, and some of our predictions for the future.

Finally, this audio contains a 5 minute English vocabulary class where you’ll be taught loads of new colloquial expressions. It’s called “The Vocabulary of Facebook and Social Media”.

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