BBC: Goldfish, brains and phones-2

Which reminds me today's question. I asked you how long on average we spend looking at our phones, and you said?

Well, my attention span is not that short that I can't remember that I said two and a half hours. 

And the answer- if you believe the research- is 2.42 hours per day so, pretty good guess there, Catherine. 

Thank you. 

That comes from Chicago-based research from Dscout. And what about this: the group they surveyed touched their mobiles over 2,600 times a day. Do you touch your phone 2,600 times a day. Catherine?

I try not to, what about you?

It's probably more than that to be honest. Now, I'm sure everyone wants to get back to touching their phones- or maybe they're touching them now as they listen- but either way, let's have a review of today's phrases. 

OK, so first we had attention span - that's the length of time we can focus on something. And mine is defintely shorter than it used to be... Neil? Neil?

Sorry, I just got distracted there by a message on my phone. Apologies. 

That's alright. So, next up we had a bad press. Goldfish get a bad press. Social media gets a bad press. And this means they all get criticism in the media. 

And we had fishy. If something's fishy, it's suspicious. 

And we had multitask. To multitask is to do several things at once. 

Then we had down to. Here it means 'depends on', though it can mean other things in other contexts. You could say, it's all down to the context!

And that's our quick review, and our programme for today. So, did you stay focused all the way through? Or were you distracted/

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