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B2 – Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sonia Hopkin, the mother of Tiegan Jarman, the 13-year-old girl who died after doing a trend she saw on TikTok,\u00a0pleas for measures to be taken to make young children more aware not only about the dangers of household chemicals, but also of the internet.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the article about a mother\u2019s plea after losing her daughter over a social media trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cz94j0zd9j3o<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vocabulary Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Define \u201cchroming<\/strong>\u201d. \u201cMrs Hopkin also called on TikTok to do more to stop actions, such as <\/em>chroming<\/em><\/strong>, from becoming trends.<\/em>\u201d Use the term in a sentence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. What does \u201csolvent abuse<\/strong>\u201d mean? \u201cThe mother of a girl who died while copying a “horrible” social media trend is calling for children to be taught about the dangers of <\/em>solvent abuse<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d Use the term in a sentence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. What does \u201cto raise awareness<\/strong>\u201d mean? \u201cMrs Hopkin now wants <\/em>to raise awareness<\/em><\/strong> of the “dangers of this horrible trend”.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0Use the idiom in a sentence.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. What are your thoughts about what happened to Sonia Hopkin\u2019s daughter?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. What is your opinion about introducing mandatory lessons about solvent abuse at schools?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Share your thoughts on this, “One video would be bad, but the fact it has become a trend is unbelievable. It shouldn’t be available on the internet.<\/em>“<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. What can you say about Tik-tok\u2019s statement, \u201cContent promoting dangerous challenges is not allowed on TikTok, and we proactively removed 99.8% of videos that violated our policies on this issue before they were reported to us.<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. How are children taught about the dangers of social media and the internet at schools in your country?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. Have you ever heard of similar incident where a person got into trouble because of some trend they saw on social media?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      B2 – Upper Intermediate  Sonia Hopkin, the mother of Tiegan Jarman, the 13-year-old girl who died after doing a trend she saw on TikTok,\u00a0pleas for measures to be taken to make young children more aware not only about the dangers of household chemicals, but also of the internet.\u00a0 Read the article about a mother\u2019s plea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[291,292,289,25,293],"class_list":["post-31486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homework","tag-b2-upper-intermediate","tag-first-certificate-fce","tag-reading","tag-technology","tag-text"],"yoast_head":"\nA Mother\u2019s Plea after Girl Died Copying Social Media Trend | phone english blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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