C. Keywords
women, web, websites.
Vocabulary
surpass, Jupiter, genealogy.
C1. The following passage you are going to hear is a news report on women and the Internet. Listen carefully, find the major difference between men and women when they surf the Internet. Then write down in the note form the different reasons why women use the Web.
Music websites like nsync.com are attracting teen girls and so are sites focused on fashion and shopping.
An unscientific survey of teens, mostly girls attending Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, California, shows teens are using the World Wide Web for many reasons.
My name is Fi and I'm 16. I check my e-mail on the net and I chat sometimes. That's all I did.
My name is Sonia Fay Phillips. I'm 17 years old. Mostly I use the Internet for looking up my college information or check my e-mail or chat. I use...mostly use it for resources and studying because I don't have time for play and stuff.
My name is Lucien Morrison. I'm 17. And I use the Internet to chat on, to get codes for Play Station games, to check my-email and to play games on.
I'm Meesha, I'm 14 years old. I usually just search on the web, just anything I'm looking for or just search because I'm bored or anything like that.
Summer school students attending Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, California.
The Internet study released today conducted by Media Matrix and Jupiter Communications shows that men and women use the Web differently.
Women use it as a tool, men tend to spend more time online playing around.
Among the other most popular sites reported for women on the web, for ages 35 to 44, market-day.com and birthday-express.com.
For ages 55 and up, they've been posting the second biggest jump in usage, aarp.org and genealogy.com.
C2. Now listen again, match column A with column B by figuring out who likes using which website.