Work in groups of four and give a a one minute presentation on gadgets that you have been using or your parents are using at home. Write any two advantages and disadvantages the new gadget has over the old one.
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Gadgets Advantages and Disadvantages
Hello everyone; I am going to express my views on gadgets. First of all I will speak about advantages of gadgets; after that I will speak briefly about disadvantages.\
Gadgets, gadgets everywhere making physical exertion very rare! If anything that has enslaved man, it is gadgets. Gadgets have infiltrated into every aspect of his life. He is always surrounded by cell-phones, computers, laptops, TV, ACs, fans, heaters, vehicles, cameras, wi-fis, Bluetooths, etc. How will his life look like if we take all the gadgets out of it? Certainly vacant!
New gadgets are undoubtedly better than the old ones. Let’s take the example of TV and phones. Old TVs had limitations. Earlier there were only black and white TVs; then came the color TVs; even then the channels were very limited. With the IT revolution came revolution in everything. TVs became smart; there are hundreds of channels; even there are smart TVs on which one can surf internet and various sites. However, the disadvantages about modern TVs are many; owning to so many channels being telecast, children as well as adults have become addict to them. They keep on sitting in front of it for hours at a stretch, which affects their health negatively.
Similar story is of phones. Everyone appears to have become addict of smart-phones. They are many times better than old phones; but their disadvantages are equally many.
The best advice is we must use the gadgets moderately and with self-control.