Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
What do you see when you go on Facebook? Do you see a boatload of cool photos from your friends? Is everyone having fun adventures all the time? How does it make you feel? Sometimes, Facebook can make us feel envy or give us a bad case of FOMO. FOMO means Fear Of Missing Out. But what exactly is FOMO?
If you have FOMO, you check Facebook all the time to see what other people are doing. You want to know about everything that’s happening. Instead of thinking about your own aspirations, you feel regret. It seems like your life is boring, and everyone else has a better life. You feel indecisive about what to do next.
Dominique thinks Andy needs to focus on more meaningful things. Why? Listen to this English lesson to find out about Andy’s bad case of FOMO.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
Andy_H: Oh my gosh, Dominique! I am just having the worst case of FOMO this week. One of my friends climbed a mountain, the other one is in Aruba, and here I am with just a boatload of regret. I feel like I’m missing out on everything. I got FOMO, hardcore.
Dominique: You know what would work for your FOMO?
Andy_H: What’s that?
Dominique: Perhaps, getting offline. Living your life. Focus on your goals, and your dreams, and aspirations.
Andy_H: But that’s the thing, I’m really indecisive. I feel like I have a choice overload because every time I want to do something, another thing shows up.
Dominique: Sounds like you have a bad case of envy. Why don’t you go do something meaningful?
Andy_H: I guess I could focus on my stamp collection.
Dominique: I guess you could do that.
Andy_H: All right, you know what? I’m logging off Facebook. Thanks, Dominique.
Dominique: No problem.
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Discussion
Andy feels like his friends have a better life than he does. How does he know this? He sees all their photos and stories on the internet. His friends travel and climb mountains. This gives Andy a terrible case of FOMO. He isn’t sure what to do. It feels like he has an overload of choices in life, so he does nothing. He has a boatload of regret.
Dominique thinks Andy has too much envy. She believes logging off the internet is the best way to stop FOMO. If Andy starts thinking about his own aspirations in life, he won’t feel so indecisive. Dominique tells Andy to focus on things that are meaningful to him. Andy remembers that his stamp collection is meaningful to him. He decides to go offline and start living his own life.
Do you have FOMO? What do you do when you feel indecisive?
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