Is the Internet rotting our brain?

Below is the link to the interview we watched in class. Watch it once more, answer the rest of the questions and do the vocabulary task. If you are not familiar with some of the words, look them up in a dictionary.
Interview

Answer the questions:

How does our thinking change under the influence of the Internet? Why is it happening?

What physical changes occur in our brain?

What abilities are we losing?

How can his book be criticized and how does he respond to it?

How has his research changed his lifestyle? Why has it been difficult?

What should we reflect on? Why?

Use these words and phrases to repeat the ideas of the author or express your own views on the topic:

to shift sth

to stay online / jump around / handle messages

the more … the more

modes of (thinking)

to tune sth out

irreparable

to do damage

to cut back on sth

to be connected

to be hard to reverse

to be conducive to sth

to engage in sth

for decades

to influence

to be embedded in

sensitive to sth

to affect sb

mature (fellow)

to give up

every (few minutes)

to cut oneself off

Your blogs-Agnieszka Rożyńska (group 2)

Please set up your blogs by the end of this week.
Use Blogger because it makes my access to them easier .
Paste the address of your blog in the comments below.

Podcast 1

Below is the link to the radio programme about learning languages that we listened to in class. Listen to it again and answer the following questions:
What unexpected incident occurred in the middle?
What was the joke involving Spanish at the end of the conversation?
Language Learning