Fiche de révision : Réseaux sociaux et adolescents

📋 Plan du Cours

1. Usages selon l’âge
2. Exprimer la fréquence
3. Finn face à la nouvelle loi
4. Les bénéfices des réseaux sociaux
5. Les dangers dénoncés
6. Le mensonge sur les réseaux

📖 1. Usages selon l’âge

★ À maîtriser

• The chart shows how Australian children and teenagers used social media in 2024, according to data collected by the parental control app Qustodio.

• Parental controls limit Australian children’s online time to around two hours per day.

📌 Roblox is the favourite app up to the age of 15, TikTok becomes increasingly popular from the age of 10, and Snapchat becomes popular when children reach 13.

• TikTok is the most used app among teenagers aged 16 to 18.

Compléments

• Facebook and X are the least popular apps whatever the users’ age.

💡 Astuce mémo

Roblox domine chez les plus jeunes, TikTok et Snapchat prennent le relais chez les adolescents.

📖 2. Exprimer la fréquence

★ À maîtriser

• Once a day means one time per day.

• Twice a day means two times per day.

📌 How often asks about frequency, whereas how much time asks about the quantity of time spent on an activity.

Compléments

• The frequency adverbs are:
  • always
  • often
  • sometimes
  • occasionally or once in a while
  • rarely or seldom
  • never

💡 Astuce mémo

Always → often → sometimes → occasionally → rarely → never.

📖 3. Finn face à la nouvelle loi

★ À maîtriser

• Finn is a 15-year-old student in 10th grade who is busy with school, water polo and basketball, but he also uses his phone a lot.

• Finn uses Snapchat and TikTok the most and scrolls and texts in the toilets or bathroom at school because phones are forbidden there.

📌 A new Australian law forbids social media use by people under 16, so Finn is too young to have a social media account.

📌 The Australian Prime Minister’s aim is to break children’s digital habits because he considers them harmful.

Compléments

• Finn is afraid of being disconnected and bored without social media.

💡 Astuce mémo

La loi australienne interdit les réseaux avant 16 ans → Finn risque la déconnexion.

📖 4. Les bénéfices des réseaux sociaux

★ À maîtriser

• Social media help young people make new friends and keep in touch with old friends all over the world.

• Online communities can improve young people’s mental health by making them feel less lonely or depressed and more supported.

📌 In English, by followed by a verb ending in -ing expresses a means and means “en faisant quelque chose”.

Compléments

• Social media develop young people’s creativity by giving them the possibility to create fan fiction.

• Collaborative work and tutorials on social media can help young people learn new things, giving social media an educational aspect.

💡 Astuce mémo

C-C-S-E : contact, communauté, créativité, éducation.

📖 5. Les dangers dénoncés

★ À maîtriser

• The first cartoon shows a person transformed into a skeleton because too much social media use has filled their mind with unessential notifications.

• The first cartoon denounces social media addiction because it makes people waste time and neglect their health or work.

• The second cartoon refers to the myth of Narcissus by showing a woman obsessed with her reflection in a screen that looks like a pond.

• The third cartoon refers to the Titanic disaster by showing a sinking ship whose passengers film the event instead of calling 911 or the emergency service.

Compléments

• The second cartoon criticizes social media for developing narcissism and making people self-centred.

• The third cartoon shows that people can become disconnected from reality because they look for a buzz and likes during a disaster.

💡 Astuce mémo

Un squelette devant un écran, Narcisse dans un écran-étang et un bateau qui coule filmé par les passagers.

📖 6. Le mensonge sur les réseaux

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• to show : présenter ou montrer
• to denounce : dénoncer
• to criticize : critiquer
• lie : un mensonge
• to lie : To lie means mentir.
• misleading : trompeur
• to embellish : embellir ou rendre quelque chose plus beau qu’il ne l’est
• to make believe : faire croire
• to boast : se vanter à propos de quelque chose
• to show off : frimer ou se vanter

★ À maîtriser

• 🔄 The chain reaction shown in the video is: people create lies on social media, the lies create a competition for prestige, people try to be the best in the eyes of others, the process wastes their time

Compléments

📌 The expression to look + adjective means avoir l’air + adjectif.

💡 Astuce mémo

Un mensonge en entraîne un autre → une compétition de prestige qui fait perdre du temps.

📊 Tableaux de synthèse

Usages des applications selon l’âge