I. LISTENING

Listen to some information about emojis. Complete a student’s note. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER in each blank. You will listen TWICE.

Emoji

Invention: in the 1990s in (1) ____________  

Popularity:         can be found on every smartphone, (2) ____________ platform and communication application.

Quantity:  more than (3) ____________ emojis       

Recognition:       2015’s (4) ____________of the Year 

Criticisms: encourages laziness and (5) _________________

Invention: in the 1990s in (1) ____________  

destroys languages

Script:

Emoji has become integral to digital communication in the past few decades. Invented in the 1990s in Japan, emoji was originally a collection of 176 symbols. These little pictures that people can send to one another are on every smartphone, social network platform and communication application. Its popularity exploded after Apple included emojis in their latest smartphone in 2011. By 2021, there will be more than 3000 emojis representing many different emotions, people, food, jobs… Emoji has become so important to the way we communicate that the Oxford Dictionary chose the tears-of-joy emoji to be Word of the Year in 2015. Some written phrases can usually be understood with a single emoji. However, not everyone supports the increasing usage of emojis. Critics said that this type of communication made people lazy and it destroyed languages.