跟读练习: Life Before the Internet in Slow English 📲 | English Every Day 🇺🇸 (A2-B2) - 通过视频学习英语口语

Hi friends, welcome back to English Every Day, a podcast where I speak in slow,

easy, and understandable English so that you can learn every day.

Because if you want to learn English, you have to keep going, don't stop.

Keep going, don't stop.

Today, we are talking about what the world was like before the internet.

What did people do when they did not have phones?

Believe Believe it or not, 20 or 30 years ago, we didn't have these things.

We did not have smartphones.

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We did not have smartphones, so people did things differently.

They did different things.

They could not spend the whole day on TikTok or Instagram or Snapchat or whatever.

They had to do different things.

Tell me in the comments, did you live when there were no smartphones?

When you had to go outside and play with your friends?

You couldn't spend the whole day on your phone.

Tell me what that was like.

What do you remember from those days?

And if you have always had a phone,

if your whole life you have had a phone or an iPad or an iPod or something,

do you like using these devices, meaning these iPhones, these iPads, phones, laptops, whatever?

Do you like them?

And how much time do you spend on them every day?

I was born in 2004.

I was born in 2004, which means I'm Gen Z.

I'm from Generation Z.

I'm Gen Z.

And there are a lot of people in my generation that are addicted to their phones.

And to be honest, I also am kind of addicted to my phone.

I think I spend too much time on technology.

I could be outside hanging out with friends or at the gym or something.

But sometimes I spend too much time on technology.

And it's better now.

I mostly use my phone to learn languages

and speak with friends chat with my friends

so I don't spend a lot of time on social media

and as a kid I got my first phone

when I was 13

so for the first 13 years of my life I did

not have a phone I did have an iPod though an ipod touch that's the name an ipod touch

and man was it awesome i had

so many games on my ipod i even had instagram from

the time i was like 10 i had instagram as a 10 year old this is

when instagram first started so it was completely different so yeah i did not have a phone

but i had an ipod and my brother had an ipad we played roblox club penguin pop tropica

some other games that i don't remember the names of let me know

if you guys know these games and if you have ever played them

because i love these games i adore these games i really adore them

they were such an important part of my childhood I had my iPod

but I also had a limit

so I could only spend a few hours a week on my iPod which meant

that most of the time I wasn't on my iPod I

was outside hanging out with friends we played a lot of games let me know

if you know these games so hide-and-seek of Of course, tag.

Tag is where somebody is it, and you tag them, and you say you're it.

And then you run away from them.

That person tags someone else, and they're it.

You're it, you're it, you're it.

That's tag.

We also played Roundup.

Roundup is a game where one person is it, and then when they tag someone else, they're both it.

And when someone else gets tagged or touched, they're also it.

So if you're touched, you become it.

And the game ends when there is nobody left or when there is one person left.

And of course we played cops and robbers.

Cops and robbers are where there are police officers and there are bad guys, there are criminals and the good guys,

the police officers, the cops have to catch the bad guys, the robbers.

A bunch of games like that we used to play as kids.

As a kid, I played a lot of baseball and football and some basketball, but not so much.

But looking back on those times, that means thinking about those times,

there were so many fun stories and so many funny memories.

I don't know if you know what this is, but we have something called ding dong ditch.

To ding dong ditch someone is to go to their house and press the doorbell or knock on their door.

So when you press the doorbell, it makes a sound ding dong and ditch means to run away.

so to ding dong ditch someone is to press their doorbell

and ditch them run away it's a little joke that kids do

and as a kid I used to do it

and it's I guess it's annoying but being kids it's it's funny right

and then sometimes the neighbors would say oh we're calling the police on you

and then you'd have to run away or hop on your bike, get on your bike and ride away, get out of there as fast as possible.

But they were joking, the neighbors.

They were not going to call the police.

They just did not want to be bothered, meaning they did not want someone to disturb them or interrupt them.

And, well, we were pretty annoying as kids.

So I do not blame them.

I have always lived with the internet in my life, meaning that since I was a kid, I could go on the internet,

but it was not as big as it is now, especially with social media.

So as a kid, we used to just have fun, go outside, hang out with friends.

And I think it's important to hold on to those memories,

to remember those memories, because that is who we are as humans.

We are not the people that scroll for 20 hours a week,

seeing all of these crazy posts and unbelievable things.

We are not meant to be desensitized.

Whoa, big word.

What does that mean?

Desensitized means you see something so often that it becomes normal.

It's not a shock anymore.

You become desensitized.

And we are not meant to be desensitized to all of the things that we are desensitized to.

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So the internet is not going anywhere and I think

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that is a good thing because I really love the internet especially YouTube right now.

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My job is literally through the internet and it's with people from all over the world which is crazy.

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So I love the internet.

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It's not going anywhere.

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It will stay, but it's important to balance.

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Balance your real life, hanging out with your friends and family and going outside and fooling around or messing around,

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just having fun.

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And the internet.

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So with your internet friends, learning English learning new skills and all of those things

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so remember tell me about what your life was like growing

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up did you have the internet did you not have the internet

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