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(Updated on 29/06/2016)

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Facts :

• US City Bans Texting while Walking - Text + Audio - 9 August 2017
  "Beginning on October 24, you could be fined from $15 to $99 if you step into a Honolulu street while looking at your phone."
  (learningenglish.voanews.com)

• Texting becomes most popular way for young people to stay in touch - 6 December 2012
  "90 per cent of 16 to 24–year–olds use the method daily to communicate with friends and family, Ofcom study finds."
  (telegraph.co.uk)

• Texting is fostering bad grammar and spelling, researchers claim
  + Texting more popular than face-to-face conversation 
  (telegraph.co.uk)

• Man who was texting behind wheel drives off Danvers bridge and into river in Massachusetts
  The driver "managed to escape the car and make his way to the shoreline, and was transported to Beverly Hospital, treated, and released."
  (boston.com)

  

• Risky behavior likely in hyper-texting teens
  (news.ca.msn.com)

  
  
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• Third of U.S. teens with phones text 100 times a day
  "A third of U.S. teenagers with cell phones send more than 100 texts a day as texting has exploded to become the most popular means of
  communication for young people, according to new research."
  (reuters.com)

• Children’s use of mobile phone text messaging and its impact on literacy development in primary school.
  (dera.ioe.ac.uk)

Abbreviations :

• LINGO2WORD
  Acronym, Emoticon Dictionary, Lingo Dictionary, Texting Thesaurus, SMS Message Translator and Spellchecker.
  Funny SMS message collection, colorful phrases. Popular Smiley, Chat words and SMS message lists.
  "Lingo2word is devoted to demistifying any shorthand language
  such as SMS messages ,Chat rooms, Legalese ,Computer Jargon and Emails."
  (lingo2word.com)

• List of SMS abbreviations (Wikipedia)
  ex : aka - also known as

• Common Acronyms and Abreviations - (Ac. Montpellier)
  "Toutes ces abréviations que l'on trouve dans les 'chats', dans les forums ou dans les SMS"

• Do you speak Esemese? (Ac. Montpellier)
  "Toutes ces abréviations qu'utilisent les anglophones quand ils communiquent par SMS
  (Short Message Service)"

• SMS, Chatroom and E-Mail Acronym Definitions (about.com)

INTERACTIVE activities :

• A few Popular Text & Chat Acronyms
  "Play the first matching game and then play the Hangman game."
  Created by Renée Maufroid. (Ac. Lille)

  

• Mobile Madness - UPDATED
  "First read the text message on the mobile phone.
  Then type the message using complete words.
  Example : ruok ? = Are you OK ?"
  (elt.oup.com)

  

• transl8it! (trans-late-it) is simple to use!
  "Just type in your SMS or TXT lingo and let transL8it! convert it to plain english OR type in a phrase in english and convert it to TXT lingo!"
  
  
  

Activities TO PRINT :

• Texting in the class
  Support pour faire écrire des SMS aux élèves
  "Un document à imprimer et à distribuer aux élèves, avec des images de téléphones pour leur faire écrire de petites conversations en SMS dedans.
  C’est l’occasion d’aborder les abréviations classiques, et ça peut servir d’étape préparatoire pour l’expression orale en interactivité."
  par Stéphane Busuttil (another-teacher.net)

• Do you speak Esemese? (Ac. Montpellier)
  "Toutes ces abréviations qu'utilisent les anglophones quand ils communiquent par SMS
  (Short Message Service)"
  - avec des exercices
  

• Exercices avec les SMS (Ac. Montpellier)

• The Pros and Cons of SMS - "Classify the ... statements in pros and cons."
  (absolutenglish-972)

• MOBILE PHONES - Smilies - (absolutenglish-972)
  "Match the items on the right (feelings, people, animals...) to the corresponding smilies."

Lesson plans :

• Dotty - a lesson
  "This EFL lesson is designed around a moving short film by Brett and Mick , and the themes of texting and elderly people.
  Students discuss texting, write instructions, predict how a short film ends, read a film review and write a film review for homework."
  Time: 90 minutes
  Topic: Texting, technology and old people
  Language: Vocabulary related to texting
  Materials: Short film and film review
  (film-english.com)

  

• Texting while walking is dangerous (March 12, 2014) - a lesson plan with AUDIO
  "Reading or writing text messages while you are walking is dangerous. A new study says it is more dangerous than texting while driving."
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)

• Heavy Texting – a New Social Problem (10th November, 2010) - a lesson plan
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)
  
  Risky behavior likely in hyper-texting teens
  (news.ca.msn.com)

  

  
  

Cartoons :

	31 Signs You’ve Been A Teacher Too Long 18. This is your daily battle. (buzzfeed.com)
TEXTING	Distracted driving - Cartoons (cagle.com)	Texting while flying
Cell phones may cause cancer ? "This cartoon by Gary Markstein from the Copley News Service relates to a recent World Health Organization press release  saying that using a cell phone may raise the risk of developing cancer." + COMMENTS + LINKS (jeffreyhill.typepad.com)	Text while driving (socialnomics.files.wordpress.com) Texting - Reaction time (caranddriver.com)
	TEXTING WHILE DRIVING	DISTRACTED DRIVING

Videos :

• It Only Takes a Second - "You can't even look away for a second..."
  (YouTube)
  "Put down the phone, fellow fathers. Right now, you're supposed to be watching your kids. They're not safe out of your sight for even a second. Just glance away to read or send a text and the worst thing has happened to your precious children in that moment.
  Dad Dudes, which is a comedy production group consisting of four real-life dads, created this thoughtful PSA to warn dads to stop texting and start paying attention."
  (Neatorama)

• Dangers of Texting While Walking
  "On city streets and in shopping centers, there is usually someone strolling while talking on a phone, texting with his head down.
  The problem isn't as widely discussed as distracted driving, but the danger is real."
  (YouTube)