I am Dori, I am a teacher of English and today's

video is another request video. Lots of you

face problems with Not Given tasks and

not only one but lots of you have asked me for further help

in these tasks, so, I decided to make a

"part 2" of "NG confusion" video

by showing you a paragraph of a text

this time. This video is based on the previous video

the "NG confusion" video so If you haven't watched that video may be you should check it out

first

over here in this link! Also,

the good news is that in "not given" tasks

Bear in mind that the order of the statements

is going to be the same with the order

of the text. So, at least you know more or less where

to search-where in the text to search-

for the answer. Ok, here we go! Ok, this is a paragraph

taken from a text talking about online gaming addiction

So, we will use this paragraph as we would a whole text

for convenience. So, we have done our skimming in the text and our underlining

as you can see our underlining of keywords

that we think are important is in blue so we move on straight

to the statements! So, let's read the first one over here

Statement no. 1: "Teenage girls

are not interested in online gaming

at all. Ok, since we know that statements follow the order

of the text we will find this answer at the beginning so we read a little bit

at the beginning

"Online gaming-here-online gaming

is the new addiction of our modern times and targets

mainly teenage boys. Ask 100 teenage boys what will make them happy

and the majority would answer playing online video games all

day. Okay what do you think it is

T/ F or Not Given? Have a guess!

Okay, it is "Not Given" actually, so the text

doesn't say that girls are not interested

at all-we don't know that. It says that it is mainly boys

the majority is boys but we don't know anything about girls

they may be interested-some of them at least-some of them maybe not but we

don't

know it. The text doesn't say anything about that so, it is

Not Given. Let's go to the next statement

online gaming is the most

dangerous addiction. As you see, we've already underlined the word dangerous

in the text over here

So, it helps us locate the answer

a bit easier. So, let's read this section and only this section

a little bit more carefully. So, here we go: "Scientists

claim that online gaming addiction is nearly as dangerous

as a drug addiction and has consequences of its own both in the social

and the psychological life of

the teenagers. So, what is it? T/ F or Not Given?

It is False. It says,

it is dangerous but not as dangerous as drug addiction

not yet. They are close but not as dangerous

It is NEARLY as dangerous as taking drugs.

it cannot be true because it is not the most

dangerous addiction-there's still drug addiction

it cannot be"not given" because the text

clearly states that it is not as dangerous

So, it is false. Okay let's move on to the third statement

"Online gaming addiction-here we are-

results in social and psychological problems"

Okay sometimes if you're very good at skimming and underlining words

you will instantly know the answer sometimes without even reading the

section

but let's go to the text and we will find the answer after the previous one

because we've already underlined important key-words, such as social,

psychological,and consequences

so we read "online gaming addiction is nearly as dangerous and has

consequences of its own both in the social

and the psychological life of a teenager." So,

What is it? okay, it is True.

the consequences of this addiction are both social and psychological in nature

and now let's move on to the last one. "Teenagers

that quit school due to gaming addiction

do not care about a career."

Ok, sometimes

you may underline key-words that aren't going to help you because you

don't know beforehand the statements, ok?

But it doesn't matter I don't want you to be confused by that

Still, they're going to help you a little bit to locate answers

okay we know that we're going to find the answer of this statement

at the end of the text more or less

So, let's read the last section a little bit better

"there were always students that dropped out of school because they didn't like it

and they weren't interested in a future career but

nowadays dropping out of school is clearly

correlated with the amount of hours teenagers play

each day and with the absence of social activities outside school."

okay what do you think it is? T/ F or Not Given?

okay and those of you who answered "Not Given" are right

Why? Because it doesn't say anywhere

that teens that suffer from gaming addiction

don't care about a future career this is True

only for children that quit school because they don't like it

but we don't know about gaming teens

it may be true for some of them but we don't know anything about it

it is not stated some may be interested in a career

too, we just don't know it. So, it

is "Not Given".

okay, I hope that this small task helps you

a little bit more because you see what the text actually says.

Now, a fellow English teacher from Russia

has found; has created a technique of his own

in order to conquer NG confusion

and he shares his

technique based on his teaching experience in his

video over here I will give you the link to go and check it out in case you

need further help. I think it is a very helpful technique

and I have also put the link to this video in the description box down below.

OK! That's it for today, thank you very much for watching if you have any questions or comments you

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