welcome to Madame English YouTube channel in this video you will hear a horratory Exposition text listen to the audio after that do the following task don't forget to like comment and subscribe Madame English YouTube channel thank you students should be allowed to use mobile technologies in class for hundreds of years education has been closely connected to writing professors had been writing down their lectures and students had been keeping notes after their teachers goose feathers and parchment changed to ballpoint pens and paper with the emergence and development of mobile technologies students nowadays tend to use smartphones or laptops in class more often than pens and paper there are many arguments in favor of doing so first of all let us face reality people do not write as much today as they used to several years ago this is especially true in the case of the youth teenagers and young adults tend to feel more confident and comfortable typing on their devices rather than with handwriting keeping records after a teacher in class requires a student to write extremely fast which often decreases the readability of the notes taken sometimes it can be extremely difficult for a student to understand what he or she heardly wrote down in class at the same time typing on a smartphone or laptop helps write the important information down in a comprehensible and accurate way also handwriting always involves grammatical mistakes typos blots and so on secondly technology is something youth nowadays have got so accustomed to that without it they operate less efficiently students are native to such devices as smartphones laptops tablets and other gadgets and naturally incorporate them in whatever they do be at leisure time we're studying not allowing students to use smartphone and laptop in class means to deprive them of something that is almost a part of them and of their daily lives if young people know how to use technology to their advantage and increase their studying Effectiveness with its help why forbid them from doing it thirdly the use of mobile technologies helps make the studying process more engaging for students for example there are teachers who like to illustrate their lectures with photographs charts or interactive graphics if students are using smartphone or laptop a teacher can send them supplementary educational materials via email or in social media or students may be able to look up contradictory and slash or insufficient information during the course or a lecture and ask questions immediately smartphone and laptop also allow changing the format of teaching some teachers develop experimental ways of lecturing and these new methods tend to show promising results needless to say such formats of studying are more appealing to young people who value their freedom and time and prove to be extremely effective based on the arguments above allowing students to use smartphone and laptop in class would be a small but substantial change modern students are digital Natives and can effectively use Technologies to their advantage they would be able to not just take notes on lectures more effectively but would also equally engage in new forms of studying such as remote studying using interactive online materials and so on now let's do the task number one to eight access and retrieve for questions number one and two integrate and interpret for questions number three to five reflect and evaluate for questions number six to eight you can pause the video and capture the task good luck and don't forget to like comment and subscribe Madame English YouTube channel