A digital break diary · B1. Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event. Separate supported claims from what the evidence leaves unknown. No mention does not prove absence.
Read the original English material and answer with evidence. The level is an editorial guide, not a certified result.
Read the original English material and answer with evidence. The level is an editorial guide, not a certified result.
I did not give up my phone for a week. That would have been difficult because I use it for work messages and train tickets. Instead, I tried one smaller change: no social media after dinner. I wanted to find out whether I would read more, not prove that phones were bad.
On Monday, I put my phone on a high shelf and opened a novel. Within ten minutes, I reached for the phone three times without thinking. There was no message I needed to answer. I simply wanted something to do when the story became difficult. I read only six pages, but noticing that habit felt useful.
Tuesday was easier until a friend sent a funny video. I watched it on my laptop, then realised that changing the device had not changed the activity. I added the laptop to my evening rule. I still allowed calls and direct messages from family, because being unavailable to them was not my goal.
By Thursday, I was reading for longer, but I was also going to bed later. I had chosen an exciting book and kept saying, “One more chapter.” My sister laughed when I told her. The point was to make deliberate choices, she said, not replace one endless activity with another. I started setting a time to stop reading as well.
At the weekend, I went back through the notes I had made each evening. I had finished more pages than usual, but that alone did not tell me whether I had rested better. Some evenings felt calm; others did not. I had not recorded my sleeping times before the experiment, so I could not make a fair comparison.
I am keeping the phone shelf and the reading time. I am not keeping a strict ban for every evening: sometimes a shared online game with a distant friend is exactly how I want to spend my time. The useful change is asking what I intend to do before I start, rather than letting one link lead automatically to the next.
Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event. Separate supported claims from what the evidence leaves unknown. No mention does not prove absence.
The doors open at eight. The class starts at nine.
Ask what the person or message is trying to achieve, and for whom. Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event.
This note tells visitors where to wait.
Combine the actual clues without adding an unsupported fact. Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event. Ask what the person or message is trying to achieve, and for whom.
The bag is wet and the umbrella is open: these are clues, not a complete history.
Read the original English material and answer with evidence. The level is an editorial guide, not a certified result.
I did not give up my phone for a week. That would have been difficult because I use it for work messages and train tickets. Instead, I tried one smaller change: no social media after dinner. I wanted to find out whether I would read more, not prove that phones were bad.
On Monday, I put my phone on a high shelf and opened a novel. Within ten minutes, I reached for the phone three times without thinking. There was no message I needed to answer. I simply wanted something to do when the story became difficult. I read only six pages, but noticing that habit felt useful.
Tuesday was easier until a friend sent a funny video. I watched it on my laptop, then realised that changing the device had not changed the activity. I added the laptop to my evening rule. I still allowed calls and direct messages from family, because being unavailable to them was not my goal.
By Thursday, I was reading for longer, but I was also going to bed later. I had chosen an exciting book and kept saying, “One more chapter.” My sister laughed when I told her. The point was to make deliberate choices, she said, not replace one endless activity with another. I started setting a time to stop reading as well.
At the weekend, I went back through the notes I had made each evening. I had finished more pages than usual, but that alone did not tell me whether I had rested better. Some evenings felt calm; others did not. I had not recorded my sleeping times before the experiment, so I could not make a fair comparison.
I am keeping the phone shelf and the reading time. I am not keeping a strict ban for every evening: sometimes a shared online game with a distant friend is exactly how I want to spend my time. The useful change is asking what I intend to do before I start, rather than letting one link lead automatically to the next.
A digital break diary
Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event. Separate supported claims from what the evidence leaves unknown. No mention does not prove absence.
The doors open at eight. The class starts at nine.Ask what the person or message is trying to achieve, and for whom. Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event.
This note tells visitors where to wait.Combine the actual clues without adding an unsupported fact. Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event. Ask what the person or message is trying to achieve, and for whom.
The bag is wet and the umbrella is open: these are clues, not a complete history.Keep your first attempt, check the evidence and try another question. A follow-up on the same material does not prove transfer to a new text.
No practice notes yet. Try a short warm-up.
Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event. Separate supported claims from what the evidence leaves unknown. No mention does not prove absence.
The doors open at eight. The class starts at nine.Ask what the person or message is trying to achieve, and for whom. Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event.
This note tells visitors where to wait.Combine the actual clues without adding an unsupported fact. Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event. Ask what the person or message is trying to achieve, and for whom.
The bag is wet and the umbrella is open: these are clues, not a complete history.Opening an answer records help for that question.
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Answer: “Avoid social media after dinner.”. Evidence: “no social media after dinner.”. Check “Give up all phone use for a week.”: This says the opposite of the relevant detail. Evidence: “I did not give up my phone for a week.”. Check “Stop reading novels.”: This says the opposite of the relevant detail. Evidence: “I wanted to find out whether I would read more”.
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Answer: “It was needed for work messages and train tickets.”. Evidence: “I use it for work messages and train tickets.”. Check “The evening rule applied to the laptop rather than the phone.”: This says the opposite of the relevant detail. Evidence: “I added the laptop to my evening rule.”. Check “The experiment required answering social-media posts every night.”: The text does not give this detail. Do not add it.
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Answer: “Calls and direct family messages.”. Evidence: “I still allowed calls and direct messages from family”. Check “Every video shared by a friend.”: This makes the statement wider or stronger than the text allows. Evidence: “I added the laptop to my evening rule.”. Check “Social media on the phone, provided reading came first.”: This changes or leaves out a condition in the text. Evidence: “I added the laptop to my evening rule.”.
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Answer: “Six pages.”. Evidence: “I read only six pages”. Check “Three pages.”: This is the wrong number for the thing asked about. Evidence: “I reached for the phone three times”. Check “Ten pages.”: This is the wrong number for the thing asked about. Evidence: “Within ten minutes”.
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Answer: “The same activity could continue on another device.”. Evidence: “changing the device had not changed the activity.”. Check “A laptop could not show social media.”: This says the opposite of the relevant detail. Evidence: “I watched it on my laptop”. Check “Avoiding the phone was enough to meet the aim, whatever happened on the laptop.”: This says the opposite of the relevant detail.
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Answer: “A habit of escaping when reading became difficult.”. Evidence: “I simply wanted something to do when the story became difficult.”. Check “An urgent work problem.”: This says the opposite of the relevant detail. Evidence: “There was no message I needed to answer.”. Check “Difficulty reaching a phone placed too high.”: This is not the reason given for this action.
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Answer: “Reading was delaying bedtime.”. Evidence: “I was reading for longer, but I was also going to bed later.”. Check “The new rule limited reading to six pages every night.”: This makes the statement wider or stronger than the text allows. Evidence: “I read only six pages”. Check “Family calls prevented reading every evening.”: The text does not give this detail. Do not add it.
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Answer: “Deliberate choices rather than another activity without limits.”. Evidence: “The point was to make deliberate choices, she said, not replace one endless activity with another.”. Check “Sticking to a ban even when contact with friends was intentional.”: This says the opposite of the relevant detail. Evidence: “not replace one endless activity with another.”. Check “Replacing reading with a different unlimited activity.”: This says the opposite of the relevant detail.
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Answer: “A time to stop reading.”. Evidence: “I started setting a time to stop reading as well.”. Check “A limit of six pages for every book.”: This makes the statement wider or stronger than the text allows. Evidence: “I read only six pages”. Check “A ban on reading at weekends.”: The text does not give this detail. Do not add it.
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Answer: “No earlier sleeping times had been recorded.”. Evidence: “I had not recorded my sleeping times before the experiment”. Check “Every evening of the experiment was identical.”: This says the opposite of the relevant detail. Evidence: “Some evenings felt calm; others did not.”. Check “The earlier evenings all involved the same activities.”: The text does not give this detail. Do not add it.
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Answer: “It can be an intentional way to connect with a distant friend.”. Evidence: “sometimes a shared online game with a distant friend is exactly how I want to spend my time.”. Check “An online game guarantees a calmer evening than reading.”: This makes the statement wider or stronger than the text allows. Check “Reading more no longer matters once the experiment ends.”: This makes the statement wider or stronger than the text allows.
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Answer: “Being intentional matters more than keeping an absolute ban.”. Evidence: “The useful change is asking what I intend to do before I start”. Check “Changing devices solves unwanted habits by itself.”: This says the opposite of the relevant detail. Evidence: “changing the device had not changed the activity.”. Check “Every evening should follow the same rule without exceptions.”: This says the opposite of the relevant detail. Evidence: “I am not keeping a strict ban for every evening”.